Prerequisites: LING 217 Pragmatics helps us gain insight into inter and intra-cultural communication. This course studies conversations and different genres through the theories of pragmatics (strategies, routines, politeness, turn taking patterns, speec
- Teacher: Ambreen Javed
Prerequisite: LING 217 Teaching reading and writing to second language students; research and theory; connections to first language/literacy models, techniques, materials and tasks that facilitate the acquisition of second language literacy.
- Teacher: Fahad Aftab
Prerequisites: LING 217 This course is a study of word meaning in human languages, especially English, and introduces students to the subtlety and richness of the cognitive capacities and explains how a cognitive system computes the meanings of complex l
- Teacher: Alvina Wasim
Prerequisites: LING 217 This course addresses the interdependence of language and culture in various sociological contexts and covers basic sociolinguistic theoretical models and methodologies including social network theory and ethnography. It also focu
- Teacher: Maheen Zia
Prerequisites: WRCM 102 Theoretical concepts and empirical findings of modern linguistics on a non-technical level; highlights of the connection between linguistics and other disciplines; study of language, understanding of related disciplines.
- Teacher: Fahad Aftab
Prerequisites: WRCM 102 Theoretical concepts and empirical findings of modern linguistics on a non-technical level; highlights of the connection between linguistics and other disciplines; study of language, understanding of related disciplines.
- Teacher: Azeem Alphonce
Prerequisites: LING 217 This course explores the relationship between language and society, with reference to the differences in linguistic behavior between women and men, from a cross-cultural perspective. Topics include a historical overview of linguis
- Teacher: Jacqoline Austin
Prerequisites: WRCM 102 Built around the notion of 'all languages change over time', this course surveys the development of English language from its Germanic origins in the Anglo-Saxon period till today; emphasis is on tracking some of the linguistic
- Teacher: Mussarat Shahid
Prerequisite: LING 217 This course prepares students for their final thesis. It covers methods of linguistic analysis, appropriate research questions in linguistics, as well as data-collection techniques. In addition, students learn how to create literat
- Teacher: Azeem Alphonce
- Teacher: Ambreen Javed