East Asian linguistics

General data

Course ID:	3020-JWA-OG
Erasmus code / ISCED:	09.3 Kod klasyfikacyjny przedmiotu składa się z trzech do pięciu cyfr, przy czym trzy pierwsze oznaczają klasyfikację dziedziny wg. Listy kodów dziedzin obowiązującej w programie Socrates/Erasmus, czwarta (dotąd na ogół 0) – ewentualne uszczegółowienie informacji o dyscyplinie, piąta – stopień zaawansowania przedmiotu ustalony na podstawie roku studiów, dla którego przedmiot jest przeznaczony. / (0232) Literature and linguistics The ISCED (International Standard Classification of Education) code has been designed by UNESCO.
Course title:	East Asian linguistics
Name in Polish:	Językoznawstwo wschodnioazjatyckie
Organizational unit:	Department of General Linguistics, Sign Language Linguistics and Baltic Studies
Course groups:	General university courses General university courses in Faculty of Polish Studies General university courses in the humanities General university courses KJOWPiB
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores):	(not available) Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles: the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS; the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h; 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes; weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS; work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load. view allocation of credits
Language:	Polish
Type of course:	general courses
Prerequisites (description):	Some general knowledge on the linguistic situation of the region is expected as well as basic knowledge of one East Asian language will be suggested, however this is not a condition excluding from attending the course
Mode:	Classroom
Short description:	The lecture is intended as an introduction to methodological and theoretical aspects of East Asian languages and their investigation with special attention payed to their mutual contacts and the cultural sphere of Chinese script
Full description:	The course is intented for faculty and doctoral students majoring not only in philology and culture studies but also humanities in general or even other fields of study provided they are interested in theoretical and contrastive linguistics covering the area of languages of East Asia, such as Chinese with its varieties, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Thai, Laotian, Burmese and other; the course topics planned for the coming year includes such East Asian linguistic phenomena as language and culture, linguistic anthropology and sociolinguistics, with some particular problems such as graphemics, phonetics with phonology and prosody, semantics, pragmatics, and lexicology. During the course some presentations of recent research projects by staff members, Ph.D. candidates and researchers connected with the Department of General and East Asian Linguistics and the Centre for Polish-Japanese Lexicography, the presentations will include also typologico-monographic descriptions of particular East Asian languages
Bibliography:	Selected and provided by the teacher
Learning outcomes:	After completing the course students will gain knowledge on the methodological aspects of the East Asian linguistics and typological foundation of the investigation of the languages of the region concerning their grammatical; structure, including the area traditional and modern research on the relations between language and script Students are able to discuss selected problems of East Asian linguistics within a wider area of humanities
Assessment methods and assessment criteria:	Evaluation of individual written paper prepared by student and based on selected text (article or chapter in a book)

This course is not currently offered.

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