English Linguistics for Non-specialists

Many students view English in the context of "language learning" from a young age. In this course, students will learn about English from the
perspective of linguistics and become accustomed to seeing English as an object of "research." Specifically, students will learn about the relationship
between language skills and human cognitive skills in the first half of the course and then about the relationship between language skills and society in
the second half, mainly using actual examples from English.

English linguistics, linguistics, sociolinguistics , cognitive linguistics

1) Orientation: What is English linguistics?
2) History of English linguistics
3) Categorization
4) Contrual
5) Metaphor
6) Grammaticalization
7) Constructions
8) Linguistic knowledge
9) Image schemas and semantic extension
10) Language variation (1)
11) Language variation (2)
12) Code-switching and style shifts
13) Politeness
14) Language and communication
15) Final summary, course survey

Syllabus (Japanese site only)