Introduction to Language and Literature in English
Objective: The objective of this paper is to provide an introduction to language –
nature, characteristics, phonetics and phonology, morphology etc. – and the modes of
reading a literary text in terms of its understanding and basic concept underlying the
literary form prescribed.
1. The nature and characteristics of language. Human and animal
communication.
2. Phonetics and Phonology: The description of vowel sounds and consonant
sounds, phonemes and allophones.
3. Morphology – the structure of words, processes of word formation: affixation,
compounding and conversion – morphemes and allomorphs.
4. Literary form: Novel.
(Ch. 1 & 5 from English Literature: An Introduction for foreign readers
by R. J. Rees, Macmillan Press to be studied)
5. Reading Novel
Text Prescribed: U. R. Anantha Murthy: Samskara : A Rite for a Dead Man.
Trans. by A. K. Ramanujan, O.U.P., New Delhi.
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