Linguistics: Language and Communication, 2012-2013
This is a specialisation within the MA Linguistics.
The specialisation consists of four 10 EC courses or equivalent and the MA thesis (20 EC)
Students take four 10 EC courses (or equivalent), as follows:
Course 1: Pragmatiek en Grammatica: De Sturende Kracht van Taal or Pragmatics and Grammar: Language as a Tool for Social Influence
Courses 2 and 3: Any other two courses from the list below.
Course 4: Any course offered within the MA Linguistics (including the list below), a course on a linguistic subject taught in another MA (subject to approval by the Board of Examiners).
The specialisation has 3 optional tracks, listed below. Student who choose to do one of these tracks do Course 1 above, while Courses 2-3 must be drawn from the other courses from the track. Course 4 can be any course offered within within the MA Linguistics. The courses which can be followed within each track can be found under the appropriate tab.
Tracks
All courses
Course | Semester | Block | EC | Level |
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First semester |
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Pragmatics and Grammar: Language as a Tool for Social Influence | 1 | I, II | 10.0 | 500 |
Oral Traditions | 1 | I, II | 10.0 | 500 |
Using Language in context: Narrative and Interaction | 1 | I, II | 10.0 | 500 |
Language, Culture and Cognition | 1 | I, II | 5/10.0 | 500 |
Second Language Learning and Teaching | 1 | I, II | 10.0 | 500 |
Didactiek van het Nederlands als tweede taal | 1 | I, II | 10.0 | 400 |
Research Group Dutch as a Second Language | 1 | I, II | 10.0 | 500 |
Topics in Amerindian Ethnolinguistics | 1 | I, II | 10.0 | 500 |
Rhetorical firework in political The Hague | 1 | I, II | 10.0 | 500 |
Political debate | 1 | I, II | 10.0 | 400 |
Strategical presentation of argumentation | 1 | I, II | 10.0 | 500 |
Second semester |
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The Sociology of Language in Africa in a Global Perspective | 2 | III, IV | 10.0 | 500 |
Sociolinguistics | 2 | III, IV | 10.0 | 500 |
Translation Studies | 2 | III, IV | 10.0 | 500 |
Construction grammar and evolutionary linguistics | 2 | III, IV | 10.0 | 500 |
Argumentative and rhetorical practices | 2 | III, IV | 10.0 | 500 |
MA Thesis Linguistics | 20.0 | 600 |
Language and Society
Course | Semester | Block | EC | Level |
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First semester |
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Pragmatics and Grammar: Language as a Tool for Social Influence | 1 | I, II | 10.0 | 500 |
Language, Culture and Cognition | 1 | I, II | 5/10.0 | 500 |
Second semester |
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Sociolinguistics | 2 | III, IV | 10.0 | 500 |
MA Thesis Linguistics | 20.0 | 600 |
Rhetoric and Grammar
Course | Semester | Block | EC | Level |
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First semester |
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Pragmatics and Grammar: Language as a Tool for Social Influence | 1 | I, II | 10.0 | 500 |
Strategical presentation of argumentation | 1 | I, II | 10.0 | 500 |
Political debate | 1 | I, II | 10.0 | 400 |
Rhetorical firework in political The Hague | 1 | I, II | 10.0 | 500 |
Second semester |
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Argumentative and rhetorical practices | 2 | III, IV | 10.0 | 500 |
Construction grammar and evolutionary linguistics | 2 | III, IV | 10.0 | 500 |
MA Thesis Linguistics | 20.0 | 600 |
Using Another Language
Course | Semester | Block | EC | Level |
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First semester |
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Pragmatics and Grammar: Language as a Tool for Social Influence | 1 | I, II | 10.0 | 500 |
Second Language Learning and Teaching | 1 | I, II | 10.0 | 500 |
Research Group Dutch as a Second Language | 1 | I, II | 10.0 | 500 |
Language, Culture and Cognition | 1 | I, II | 5/10.0 | 500 |
Didactiek van het Nederlands als tweede taal | 1 | I, II | 10.0 | 400 |
Second semester |
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Translation Studies | 2 | III, IV | 10.0 | 500 |
MA Thesis Linguistics | 20.0 | 600 |