MEG-04 English Topics Covered
Block 1 – What is Language?
- Unit 1 – The Nature of Language
- Unit 2 – Looking at Data-I
- Unit 3 – Looking at Data-II
- Unit 4 – Language and Thought
Block 2 – History of English Language
- Unit 1 – An Introduction
- Unit 2 – Changes in Sounds and Spelling
- Unit 3 – Changes in Vocabulary
- Unit 4 – Changes in Grammar
Block 3 – (A) English Phonetics and Phonology-I
- Unit 1 – The Speech Mechanism
- Unit 2 – The Description and Classification of Consonants and Vowels
- Unit 3 – Phonetic Transcription and Phonology
- Unit 4 – The Consonants of English
Block 4 – (B) English Phonetics and Phonology-II
- Unit 1 – The Vowels of English (R.P)
- Unit 2 – Word Accent, Stress and Rhythm in Connected Speech
- Unit 3 – Intonation
Block 5 – English Morphology
- Unit 1 – The Study of Words
- Unit 2 – Word-Formation in English-I
- Unit 3 – Word-Formation in English-II
- Unit 4 – Word-Formation in English-III
Block 6 – English Syntax
- Unit 1 – Basic Notions of Syntactic Constituents and Phrase Structure 5
- Unit 2 – Types of Clauses and Sentences
- Unit 3 – Grammatical Punctions, Cases, and Thematic Roles
- Unit 4 – The Syntax of Inflectional Elements: Tense & Agreement
- Unit 5 – Pronouns, Reflexives, and Other Bound Elements
- Unit 6 – Syntax of Scope: Adverbs, Quantifiers, and Negation
Block 7 – Language in Use-I
- Unit 1 – Introduction to Sociolinguistics
- Unit 2 – Speech Community and Multilingualism
- Unit 3 – Bilingualism
- Unit 4 – Language Standardization
Block 8 – Language in Use-II
- Unit 1 – Multilingual Use of Codes
- Unit 2 – Language Planning
- Unit 3 – Conversational Analysis
- Unit 4 – Learner Factors in Second Language Acquisition-I
- Unit 5 – Learner Factors in Second Language Acquisition-II
Block 9 – The Spread of English
- Unit 1 – Variation and Varieties
- Unit 2 – Consolidation and Standardization of English
- Unit 3 – The Spread and Rise of Englishes
- Unit 4 – Indian English
Block 10 – Stylistics
- Unit 1 – Language Variation-The context of Situation
- Unit 2 – The Connection Between Linguistics, Literary Criticism and Stylistics
- Unit 3 – Style and Content
- Unit 4 – Analysing Texts-I
- Unit 5 – Analysing Texts-II
- Unit 6 – Analysing Texts-III