100-level

LING101
How Language Works
Description
This course introduces students to the study of the English language, its words, sounds and sentences. It also introduces the conceptual and analytical tools which linguists use to understand how languages are constructed.
Occurrences
Semester One 2024
Semester One 2024 (Distance)
Points
15 points
Restrictions
ENGL123, ENLA101
LING102
Language and Society in New Zealand and Beyond
Description
What do babies know about language when they're born? And how do our experiences as we get older affect both how we use language and what we think about other people's language behaviour? Why, for example, do people think some languages, or some dialects, are 'better' than others? And is there any truth behind such beliefs? In this course we consider a range of research from the field of linguistics that addresses these and other questions. The role of language experience will emerge as a recurrent theme: the experience that the infant has with a particular language; how our early experience with language affects how we speak and how we listen, and how our beliefs about language are created and maintained in connection to other experiences in our social lives.
Occurrences
Semester Two 2024
Semester Two 2024 (Distance)
Points
15 points
Restrictions
ENLA102

Not Offered Courses in 2024

100-level

LING104
European Languages in Europe and Beyond
Description
This course is for students undertaking a first year course in European languages or in European Union studies. The course is open to all undergraduates irrespective of their discipline. It covers a range of topics relating to languages of Europe: how they developed and spread as a group of languages, as isolates, or the way in which (inter)national languages of Europe developed. The course also looks at the role languages play in the European Union, and how the construction of Europe insists on protecting language diversity.
Occurrences
Not offered 2024, offered in 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017
For further information see LING104 course details
Points
15 points