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Linguistics: Language and Communication

Master

This is a specialisation within the MA Linguistics.

The specialisation consists of four 10 EC courses or equivalent and the MA thesis (20 EC)

Students take four 10 EC courses (or equivalent), as follows:

Course 1: Pragmatiek en Grammatica: De Sturende Kracht van Taal or Pragmatics and Grammar: Language as a Tool for Social Influence

Courses 2 and 3: Any other two courses from the list below.

Course 4: Any course offered within the MA Linguistics (including the list below), a course on a linguistic subject taught in another MA (subject to approval by the Board of Examiners).

The specialisation has 3 optional tracks, listed below. Student who choose to do one of these tracks do Course 1 above, while Courses 2-3 must be drawn from the other courses from the track. Course 4 can be any course offered within within the MA Linguistics. The courses which can be followed within each track can be found under the appropriate tab.

Tracks

Language and Society

Rhetoric and Grammar

Using Another Language

All courses

Course EC Semester 1 Semester 2

First semester
Pragmatics and Grammar: Language as a Tool for Social Influence 10
Oral Traditions 10
Using Language in context: Narrative and Interaction 10
Language, Culture and Cognition 5/10.0
Second Language Learning and Teaching 10
Didactiek van het Nederlands als tweede taal 10
Research Group Dutch as a Second Language 10
Topics in Amerindian Ethnolinguistics 10
Rhetorical firework in political The Hague 10
Political debate 10
Strategical presentation of argumentation 10

Second semester
The Sociology of Language in Africa in a Global Perspective 10
Sociolinguistics 10
Translation Studies 10
Construction grammar and evolutionary linguistics 10
Argumentative and rhetorical practices 10
MA Thesis Linguistics 20

Language and Society

Course EC Semester 1 Semester 2

First semester
Pragmatics and Grammar: Language as a Tool for Social Influence 10
Language, Culture and Cognition 5/10.0

Second semester
Sociolinguistics 10
MA Thesis Linguistics 20

Rhetoric and Grammar

Course EC Semester 1 Semester 2

First semester
Pragmatics and Grammar: Language as a Tool for Social Influence 10
Strategical presentation of argumentation 10
Political debate 10
Rhetorical firework in political The Hague 10

Second semester
Argumentative and rhetorical practices 10
Construction grammar and evolutionary linguistics 10
MA Thesis Linguistics 20

Using Another Language

Course EC Semester 1 Semester 2

First semester
Pragmatics and Grammar: Language as a Tool for Social Influence 10
Second Language Learning and Teaching 10
Research Group Dutch as a Second Language 10
Language, Culture and Cognition 5/10.0
Didactiek van het Nederlands als tweede taal 10

Second semester
Translation Studies 10
MA Thesis Linguistics 20