Introduction to English Linguistics

The slides for today’s session can be downloaded below:

Session 11 - The History of English

You can download yesterday’s slides below.

Session 9 - Types of variety and variation

You can download today’s slides below.

Session 8 - Register, Genre and Style

And, in case you need them for whatever reason, you can download the text samples we discussed in class today here.

Here is today’s presentation:

Session 7 - Information Structure

As promised, here are the slides for tomorrow’s session, for those of you who would like to print them out beforehand.

Session 6 - Discourse structure

Also, we will discuss three short pieces of spoken (or acted) dialog tomorrow. I will provide copies, but you are very much encouraged to bring your own printout and to read the texts before the session.

Example Text 1 - Conversation between two people

Example Text 2 - Sample dialog from Grey’s Anatomy

Example Text 3 - Extract from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet

Find today’s summary below:

Session 5 - Politeness and face

…and the summary of the previous unit on Pragmatics.

As usual, you can download the presentation for today’s lecture below.

Session 4 - Gricean Maxims

Download the presentation from last Thursday in PDF format here:

Session 3 - Speech Acts

Below you can download today’s presentation as a PDF file:

Session 2 - Meaning and Intention

Here’s the presentation for yesterday’s session. Note that there is only a PDF version this time, due to the fact that Google no longer allows saving presentations as HTML.

Session 12 - Methods, approaches and research traditions in linguistics