Bachelor 2025/2026

Basics of Modern Linguistics

Type: Elective course (Foreign Languages and Intercultural Communication)

Delivered by: School of Foreign Languages

When: 1 year, 2-4 module

Open to: students of one campus

Instructors: Лукошус Оксана Геннадьевна

Language: English

Course Syllabus

Abstract

This course introduces students to the fundamentals of contemporary theoretical linguistics. The course examines such issues as the linguistic sign and its properties, structure of language, connection between language and thinking, between language and speech, the origin of language, types of linguistic units, the history of writing and the main types of writing, diversity of world languages, classification of languages. As part of the course the basic levels of language are considered, as a result of which students acquire a holistic vision of language as a system, skills in analyzing linguistic facts, and experience in contrasting dissimilar languages. Particular attention is paid to modern linguistic trends, such as linguistic pragmatics, cognitive linguistics, corpus linguistics, sociolinguistics, and discourse analysis.