Bachelor of Arts (BA) - The University of Hong Kong
Bachelor of Arts (BA) - The University of Hong Kong
Bachelor of Arts (BA) - The University of Hong Kong
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150ENGL2063.Advanced English phonetics and phonology (6 credits)This course will provide further instruction in the theoretical underpinnings and practical applications<strong>of</strong> phonetics to the study <strong>of</strong> English and general linguistics. Topics may include the following: thehistory <strong>of</strong> phonetics, problems <strong>of</strong> phonological analysis, current trends in phonetics, systems <strong>of</strong>transcription, and advanced transcription exercises.Assessment will be by 100% coursework.ENGL2064.Advanced English syntax (6 credits)This course will provide an overview <strong>of</strong> recent theoretical linguistic approaches to the analysis <strong>of</strong>syntax. Detailed instruction in the application <strong>of</strong> at least one theoretical model to the English languagewill be given, and students will be expected to deal with problem sets, and to comment critically onproblems <strong>of</strong> analysis and application.Assessment will be by 100% coursework.ENGL2065.Meaning and metaphor (6 credits)This course will introduce students to a number <strong>of</strong> questions about linguistic meaning and examinevarious definitions <strong>of</strong> metaphor. Among the questions considered are: What role does metaphor play inhuman language? In what way (if at all) do languages create or embody particular culturally-specificworld-views?Assessment will be by 100% coursework.ENGL2066.Orientalism and linguistics (6 credits)This course studies linguistics as a branch <strong>of</strong> what Edward Said has termed 'Orientalism', i.e. westernmodels <strong>of</strong> Asian language, literature, culture and society created within European colonialism. It looksat the ways western linguists <strong>of</strong> the 19th and 20th century have 'imagined' or categorized Asianlanguages, relating those categories to debates within western linguistics.Assessment will be by 100% coursework.ENGL2067.American English (6 credits)This course addresses the problems (theoretical and practical) inherent in defining a variety <strong>of</strong> Englishas 'American'. Issues treated include the history <strong>of</strong> American English; dialectology; sociolinguistics;Black English; and the politics <strong>of</strong> American English.Assessment will be by 100% coursework.ENGL2068.Integrational linguistics (6 credits)<strong>The</strong> work <strong>of</strong> linguist and philosopher <strong>of</strong> language, Roy Harris, treated from a critical perspective.Topics will include some <strong>of</strong> the following: myths <strong>of</strong> language, the history <strong>of</strong> linguistic ideas, Harris onSaussure, semiotics and writing.ENGL2069.Form and meaning (6 credits)An investigation into the relationship between English structure and meaning (semantics andpragmatics), considering how meanings are encoded and inferred.Assessment will be by 100% coursework.
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