Linguistics 2 (syntax)

Description

• Explore the mechanisms which enable speakers and writers to represent experience, negotiate social roles and relationships • Pursue rhetorical objectives. • Explore the language of a range of different text types. • Understand the communicative properties of written and spoken texts. • Understand the relation between language on the one hand and culture and community on the other. • Identify the grammatical, stylistic and rhetorical properties of texts

Program

Language and Translation Department

Objectives

• This course aims to enable students to realize how styles of language vary according to social context and communicative purpose through realize that the lexicon of any language can be enlarged by both external and internal means.