MEG4 Aspects Of Language (IGNOU Help book for MEG-4 in English Medium)

MEG - 4 Aspects of Language

CONTENTS COVERED

Chapter- 1 what is Language?

Unit-1 The Nature of Language

Unit-2 Looking at Data-1

Unit-3 Looking at Data-2

Unit-4 Language and Thought

Chapter- 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

Chapter- 3 English Phonetics and Phonology

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

Unit-5 The Vowels of English (R.P.)

Unit-6 Word Accent, Stress and Rhythm in Connected Speech

Unit-7 Intonation

Chapter- 4 English Morphology

Unit-1 The Study of Words

Unit-2 Word-formation in English-1

Unit-3 Word-formation in English-2

Unit-4 Word-formation in English-3

Chapter- 5 English Syntax

Unit-1 Basic Notions of Syntactic Constituents and Phrase Structure

Unit-2 Types of Clauses and Sentences

Unit-3 Grammatical Functions, Cases, and Thematic Roles

Unit-4 Thy Syntax of Inflectional Elements: Tense & Agreement

Unit-5 Pronouns, Reflexives, and Other Bound Elements

Unit-6 Syntax of Scope: Adverbs, Quantifiers, and Negation

Chapter- 6 Language in Use-1

Unit-1 Introduction to Sociolinguistics

Unit-2 Speech Community and Multilingualism

Unit-3 Bilingualism

Unit-4 Language Standardization

Chapter- 7 Language in Use-2

Unit-1 Multilingual Use of Codes

Unit-2 Language Planning

Unit-3 Conversational Analysis

Unit-4 Learner Factors in Second Languages Acquisition-1

Unit-5 Learner Factors in Second Languages Acquisition-2

Chapter- 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

Chapter- 9 Stylistics

Unit-1 Languages Variation: The Contaxt of Situation

Unit-2 The Connection between Linguistics, Literary Critcism and Stylistics

Unit-3 Style and Content

Unit-4 Analysing Texts-I

Unit-5 Analysing Texts-II

Unit-6 Analysing Texts-III

QUESTION PAPERS

1. Question Paper - June 2002

2. Question Paper - Dec 2002

3. Question Paper - June 2003

4. Question Paper - Dec 2003

5. Question Paper - June 2005

6. Question Paper - Dec 2005

7. Question Paper - June 2006

8. Question Paper - Dec 2006

9. Solution Paper - June 2007

10. Solution Paper - June 2008

11. Solution Paper - Dec 2008

12. Solution Paper - June 2009

13. Solution Paper - Dec 2009

14. Solution Paper - June 2010

15. Question Paper - Dec 2010

16. Solution Paper - June 2011

17. Question Paper - Dec 2011

18. Solution Paper - June 2012

19. Question Paper - Dec 2012

20. Question Paper - June 2013

21. Question Paper - Dec 2013

22. Question Paper - June 2014

23. Question Paper - Dec 2014

24. Question Paper - June 2015

25. Question Paper - Dec 2015
26. Solution Paper - June 2016