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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