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所在平台: CourseraArchive 课程类别: 人文 大学或机构: Universiteit Leiden（莱顿大学） 授课老师： Marc van Oostendorp |
课程主页: https://www.coursera.org/course/humanlanguage
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Everywhere, every day, everybody uses language. There is no human society, no matter how small or how isolated, which does not employ a language that is rich and diverse. This course introduces you to the linguistics, featuring interviews with well-known linguists and with speakers of many different languages. Join us to explore the miracles of human language!
Week 1: Introduction to Linguistics
Week 2: The Study of Sound: Phonology and Phonetics
Week 3: Words and Sentences: Morphology and Syntax
Week 4: Pragmatics and Semantics
Week 5: Language in Society
The miracles of human language introduces you to the many-faceted study of languages, which has amazed humans since the beginning of history. Together with speakers of many other languages around the world, as well as with famous linguists such as Noam Chomsky, you will learn to understand and analyse how your native tongue is at the same time similar and different from many other languages. You will learn the basic concepts of linguistics, get to know some of the key features of big and small languages and get insight into what linguists do.
This course gives an introduction into the study of languages, the field of linguistics. With the support of the basic linguistic terminology that is offered in the course, you will soon be able to comment both on variety between languages, as well as on a single language’s internal structure. Anyone who wishes to understand how languages work, and how they can give us insight into the human mind is very welcome to join.
The course is useful if you want to get a fairly quick introduction into linguistics, for instance because you are considering studying it further, or because you are interested in a neighbouring discipline such as psychology, computer science or anthropology. Furthermore, the course will help you develop analytical skills.
If you are curious to understand how language works and how it gives insight
into the human mind, this course is definitely for you!
