Introduction to General Linguistics

Course: "Ukranian and English language. Translation and Editing"

Structural unit: Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology

Title
Introduction to General Linguistics
Code
ОК 8
Module type
Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП
Educational cycle
First
Year of study when the component is delivered
2021/2022
Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
1 Semester
Number of ECTS credits allocated
3
Learning outcomes
PLO 7. Understand the major issues of philology and approaches to solving those using relevant methods and innovative approaches. PLO 8. Know and understand the system of language, the general properties of literature as the art of word, the history of English language and literature, be able to apply this knowledge in professional activities. PLO 16. Know and understand basic terms, theories and tenets of translation studies, be able to apply the knowledge in professional activities.
Form of study
Full-time form
Prerequisites and co-requisites
Know general information about the nature, structure, functions, universal characteristics of language, types and functions of language units; to have the skills of analysis of language units, forms and syntactic constructions, processing and interpretation of scientific texts.
Course content
The purpose of the discipline is to acquaint students with the main issues and problems of linguistics, with the conceptual and terminological apparatus of the science of language, and outline the methodological coordinate system in which all linguistic disciplines are taught that prepare a specialist philologist. Abstract of the academic discipline. The discipline introduces students to the most important scientific concepts about the nature, functions, origin, laws of language development, its connections with extralinguistic phenomena, the main problems and questions of linguistics, the directions of linguistic research, the structure of the language system, the characteristics and functions of the constituent units of its structural levels Provides the necessary theoretical and methodological basis for the study of other linguistic disciplines.
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
1) Вступ до мовознавства : підручник / [І.О. Голубовська та ін.] ; за ред. д-ра філол. наук, проф. І.О. Голубовської. – Київ : Академія, 2016. – 318 с. 2) Зеленько А.С. Загальне мовознавство : навчальний посібник / А.С. Зеленько. – 2-е вид., стер. – Київ : Знання, 2011. – 380 с. 3) Карпенко Ю.О. Вступ до мовознавства : підручник / Ю.О. Карпенко. – 2-ге вид., стер. – Київ : Академія, 2009. – 336 с. 4) Корольов І.Р. Вступ до мовознавства : практикум : навч. посібник / І.Р. Корольов, Ю.О. Письменна ; за ред. д-ра філол. наук, проф. І.О. Голубовської ; М-во освіти і науки України, Київ. нац. ун-т ім. Тараса Шевченка. – Київ : Київський університет, 2018. – 127 с. 5) Кочерган М.П. Вступ до мовознавства : підручник / М.П. Кочерган. – 3-тє вид., стер. – Київ : Академія, 2014. – 302 с. 6) Основи мовознавства : підручник / [І.О. Голубовська, С.М. Лучканин, Н.В. Руда та ін.]. – Київ : Київський університет, 2018. – 511 с.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture, seminar class, independent work
Assessment methods and criteria
Semester assessment. Knowledge control is carried out according to the ECTS system, which provides for a two-level evaluation of the learned material, in particular, the evaluation of theoretical training, which makes up 40% of the total grade, and the evaluation of practical training, which makes up 60% of the total grade. Assessment of semester work: 1. Oral answer: 18/9 points; 2. Additions, participation in the discussion: 10/7 points; 3. Tests: 16/10 points; 4. Control work with open answers: 16/10. Final assessment: exam A detailed description of the forms, criteria and organization of assessment is given in the work program of the discipline, published on the official website of the Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology.
Language of instruction
Ukrainian

Lecturers

This discipline is taught by the following teachers

Nataliia Viktorivna Ruda
Department of General Linguistics, Classical Philology and Neo-Hellenistics
Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology