Course Details
Course Information Package
Course Unit Title | MODERN GREEK LANGUAGE II | ||||
Course Unit Code | GRK102 | ||||
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Number of ECTS credits allocated | 5 | ||||
Learning Outcomes of the course unit | By the end of the course, the students should be able to:
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Mode of Delivery | Face-to-face | ||||
Prerequisites | NONE | Co-requisites | NONE | ||
Recommended optional program components | Dimitrios Tombaidis, Teaching of Greek language, Vanias editions 2003. Fivos-Anastasios Hristidis, History of Ancient Greek language, IMT editions, 2002 | ||||
Course Contents | - Language and linguistics: Linguistic sign (signifier, signified), the arbitrary nature of the sign, the linear nature of the signifier. - Language development: Language as an exclusively human characteristic, Chomsky’s generative grammar. - Language, communication and society: Basic elements of sociolinguistics and pragmatics, language variation, dialectology. - Levels of linguistic analysis: phonetics, phonology, morphology, lexicology, syntax, semantics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics. - Basic characteristics of the structure of Modern Greek language: Standard Modern Greek, Cypriot dialect | ||||
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods | Lectures, discussions, assignments | ||||
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Language of instruction | Greek | ||||
Work placement(s) | NO |