GENERAL LINGUISTICS
This is a structured course and the fact of being structured implies that the Teaching-Learning thecnique that is going to be applied is susceptible to combine Seminars, Workshops and Projects. This course is a pre-requisite of the course that follows it: Applied Linguistics. This means that the General Linguistics course conducts the learners or students to get a solid base in managing the proper concepts of Linguistics with the purpose to make that each student achieve a real critical thought in regards to the analysis in this branch of knowledge with the objective to direct him o her to get a clear vision about Language as a social communication system.
The main aim of this course is to familiarize the students with the practical, theoretical and scientific study of the Language. Where the language is the channel to express and communicate thoughts and behaviors which are inherent to an individual, in his or her inner monologue or in social interactions among individuals that belong to a society.
Having as a basis the influence that the language has as the communication system used among individuals and groups and due to the fact that it is used in all the areas and environments in which all the human beings perform, those realities, let us see the importance of this course in the scientific study and the analysis of all that implies the expression of thoughts and behaviors through the use of Languages and/or dialects by the Mankind.
Languages have been established with certain parameters that have been fixed with the implicit agreement ocurred in social conventions made by each group of individuals that use languages as systems of communication. The languages in all their varieties and ways have been systematized as organized codes and most of the time, those codes have been delimited by Geografical regions and the customs practiced by the groups that develop their lives in them.
The course of General Linguistics has 5 (five) general objectives that divide the subjects of study in five main units.
GENERAL OBJECTIVES
I. To identify Linguistics as a Scientific and Humanistic discipline in its evolutive process through the History of the Mankind; accomplishing the aim to define with exactitude Modern Linguistics.
II. To establish the relationship between Language and Society in conjuction with the definitions of form and meaning in all the different linguistical-theoretical perspectives.
III. To describe the most important characteristics of the Human Language as a communication and identification system in conjuction with the linguistical sub-systems which are: Phonetics, Phonology, Sintax, Semantics and Pragmatics in arrangement with the linguistical units of analysis.
IV. To identify and interpreting the problems related with the semantic plan through the study of some Theories of this discipline.
V. To discriminate among the different contributions to the Modern Linguistics by the nowadays Linguists in order to identify the linguistical problems that have arisen in regards of the development of a Linguistic Theory.
