IGNOU MEG 4 Syllabus | Aspects of Language

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The syllabus of IGNOU MEG 4 is divided in 9 blocks and each block is again divided in units.

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Block 1 - What is Language?

  • Unit 1 – The Nature of Language
  • Unit 2 – Looking at Data-I
  • Unit 3 – Looking at Data-II
  • Unit 4 – Language and Thought

Block 2 - History of English Language

  • Unit 1 – An Introduction
  • Unit 2 – Changes in Sounds and Spelling
  • Unit 3 – Changes in Vocabulary
  • Unit 4 – Changes in Grammar

Block 3 (A) - English Phonetics and Phonology-I

  • Unit 1 – The Speech Mechanism
  • Unit 2 – The Description and Classification of Consonants and Vowels
  • Unit 3 – Phonetic Transcription and Phonology
  • Unit 4 – The Consonants of English

Block 3 (B) - English Phonetics and Phonology-II

  • Unit 5 – The Vowels of English (R.P)
  • Unit 6 – Word Accent, Stress and Rhythm in Connected Speech
  • Unit 7 – Intonation

Block 4 - English Phonetics and Phonology-II

  • Unit 1 – The Study of Words
  • Unit 2 – Word-Formation in English-I
  • Unit 3 – Word-Formation in English-II
  • Unit 4 – Word-Formation in English-III

Block 5 - English Syntax

  • Unit 1 – Basic Notions of Syntactic Constituents and Phrase Structure 5
  • Unit 2 – Types of Clauses and Sentences
  • Unit 3 – Grammatical Punctions, Cases, and Thematic Roles
  • Unit 4 – The Syntax of Inflectional Elements: Tense & Agreement
  • Unit 5 – Pronouns, Reflexives, and Other Bound Elements
  • Unit 6 – Syntax of Scope: Adverbs, Quantifiers, and Negation

Block 6 - Language in Use-I

  • Unit 1 – Introduction to Sociolinguistics
  • Unit 2 – Speech Community and Multilingualism
  • Unit 3 – Bilingualism
  • Unit 4 – Language Standardization

Block 7 - Language in Use-II

  • Unit 1 – Multilingual Use of Codes
  • Unit 2 – Language Planning
  • Unit 3 – Conversational Analysis
  • Unit 4 – Learner Factors in Second Language Acquisition-I
  • Unit 5 – Learner Factors in Second Language Acquisition-II

Block 8 - The Spread of English

  • Unit 1 – Variation and Varieties
  • Unit 2 – Consolidation and Standardization of English
  • Unit 3 – The Spread and Rise of Englishes
  • Unit 4 – Indian English

Block 9 - Stylistics

  • Unit 1 – Language Variation-The context of Situation
  • Unit 2 – The Connection Between Linguistics, Literary Criticism and Stylistics
  • Unit 3 – Style and Content
  • Unit 4 – Analysing Texts-I
  • Unit 5 – Analysing Texts-II
  • Unit 6 – Analysing Texts-III