Graduate Program

Course Credit: 4

Cognitive Linguistics: Definition, scope and importance Basic concepts of Cognitive Linguistics: Embodiment, Image Schema, Entrenchment and salience, Polysemy and Radial Categories, Frame and domain, Metaphor and Metonymy, Mental Space, Iconicity Spatial Semantics Cognitive Grammar, Construction Grammar and Word Grammar Cognitive Linguistics and Functional Linguistics Cognitive Linguistics and Autonomous Linguistics Cognitive Linguistics and linguistic structures: Phonology, Inflectional Morphology, Clause structure and transitivity, aspect and tense

Course Credit: 4

Definition: Indigenous people, Minority and Ethnic Minority, Dominant language and Minority Language Bangladesh: A profile of multilingual and plurilinguistic country The Demographic profiles of the indigenous people and their linguistic reality in Bangladesh Typological Classification of the ethnic languages used in Bangladesh Endangered Languages of Bangladesh Indigenous languages and language management policy in Bangladesh Mother tongue based Multilingual Education (MTB-MLE) of Indigenous Communities of Bangladesh

Course Credit: 4

Corpus Linguistics: Definition, scope and importance Corpus Linguistics and Cognitive Linguistics Corpus Linguistics and Language Technology Basic concepts of Corpus Linguistics: Annotation, Collocation, Corpora, N-gram Multilingual Corpora Analyzing Quantitative Data Use of Corpora in Language Studies Planning Bengali spoken corpus Planning Bengali written corpus

Course Credit: 4

Sex and Gender: Essence, Construct or Performance? Sex and grammatical variation across cultures. Sex and gender in sociolinguistic studies. Sociolinguistic studies and beyond: Gender as practice. Sex, gender or power? Gender-based differences in conversation. Conversational dominance or cultural difference? Same-Sex Talk Non-binary genders and the gender spectrum Online Communication Workplace Communication Language and sexuality. Gender based language variation in Bangla

Course Credit: 4

ELT: Definition and scope Methods in ELT: Grammar Translation Method; Direct Method; Audio-lingual Method; Situational Language Teaching; Communicative Language Teaching Some basic concepts in ELT: Age, Motivation, Testing, Error Analysis, Syllabus Four shills of English: Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing ELT in Bangladesh

Course Credit: 4

This course is designed to evaluate students’ comprehensive knowledge and their presentation skills in the field of linguistics. The second component of this course provides students with an option to choose between fieldwork and internship, either of which will help the students gain practical experience in linguistics related work.

Course Credit: 4

Bangla Linguistics: definitions, characteristics, scope Bangla Language: phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics Bangla Linguistics as a different area of research Contribution of famous Bengali Linguists: Suniti Kumar Chaterji, Mohommad Shohidullah, Sukumar Sen,, Mohammad Abdul Hye, Munir Chaudhury, Humayun Azad Contribution in the specific domains: Phonetics and Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics, Applied Linguistics, Lexicography, Sociolinguistics, Language Planning and policy

Course Credit: 4

Origin and development of Bangla Script Materials used in Bangla writing Bangla graphemics: grapheme, allograph, diagraph, trigraph, ligature, conjunct letters Symmetry of Bangla sound and letters Scientific approach of Bangla alphabet Syllabicity and non-syllabicity of Bangla script Bangla fonts and machines: letter press, typewriter and computer Process of Bangla word compression Uses of Bangla punctuation Bangla orthography Transliteration Acquisition of Bangla writing Manuscript study of early and middle Bangla

Course Credit: 4

Speech Communities and Speech Genres Ethnographic Methods Language Socialization Language Ideology Language, Identity, and Subjectivity (inc. race and gender) Interactionism and Intersubjectivity Language and Inequality Ethnopoetics, Narrative and Performance Language Change: Language Endangerment

Course Credit: 4

Importance of Linguistics in Professional Context Linguistics in Media: newspaper language, language for electronic media, cinema and performing arts Linguistics in other professions: linguistic for marketing and business profession, executive and administrative position, education, social ethnic research, writing and show business professions, legal studies and medicine profession and linguistics for technology