This document outlines the topics and sub-topics to be covered in an introduction to linguistics course. The topics include what language and linguistics are; phonology; phonetics; morphology; syntax; semantics; pragmatics; discourse analysis; sociolinguistics; and the application of linguistics to language teaching. Some of the sub-topics are definitions of key concepts; the traditional and modern approaches to language; the theoretical and applied fields of linguistics; notions of phonology, phonetics, and morphology; types of morphemes and affixes; syntactical relationships and sentence transformations; semantic theory and relations of meaning; language use and speech acts; types of discourse and analysis; language variation and

1. RANCANGAN MATERI INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS
TOPICS: SUB-TOPICS:
1. What is language? - Definitions/Traditional Approachon Language/BriefHistory
ofEnglish Grammar/Language Theory
2. What is Linguistics? - Concepts/ModernApproach on Language/Scope of
Linguistics:Theoritical and AppliedLinguistics
3. Phonology - Notionof Phonology/Minimal pairs, phoneme,allophones,
Vowels,consonants
4. Phonetics - Notionof Phonetics/Acoustic,Auditory,Articulatory Phonetics
5. Morphology - Notionof Morphology/Morpheme,Allomorph, Morpheme-
AllomorphRelationship
6. Morphology - Morpheme Types:Free/Bound,Affixes, Inflection,Derivation
7. Syntax - Syntactical Relationships, Wordand Type of Words
8. Syntax - EnglishSentence Transformations
9. Semantics - Semantic Theory, Word and Meaning,Denotation,
Connotation
10. Semantics - Polysemy,Synonymy,Antonymy, Homonymy
11. Pragmatics - Language use/SpeechAct
12. Disourse Analysis - Definitions,typesofdiscourse,Analysis:grammatical and
lexical aspects
13. Sosiolinguistics - language variation,social factors, social dimensions
14. Linguisticsand Language
Teaching (Appl.Ling) - Languange acquisition,Language teaching