- Applied Linguistics -

 As the title indicates, this course is an introduction to language study in English. Actually, we will range beyond English in that many of the basic concepts we will deal with--concepts such as phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics--apply to study done in all human language. Our focus will be on English, since much of the research in modern linguistics has been done in (and on) the English language and because we will want to examine ways in which this research may be applied to teaching courses in English composition and literature. (Required of all M.A. students, preferably at, or near, the beginning of their program.)