Language and Communication detailed syllabus for Mechanical Engineering (MECH) for 2019 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the MECH students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Mechanical Engineering 3rd Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit MECH 3rd Sem 2019 regulation scheme. For Humanities Elective-I scheme and its subjects refer to MECH Humanities Elective-I syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of language and communication is as follows.
COURSE DESCRIPTION This course offers an introduction to language and communication. The primary goal of this course is to familiarize students with key ideas related to communication using language as well as non verbal means. Ideas related to the use of language and the underlying power structures are also examined. The course also examines the role of media in communication and in the dissemination of ideas as well as opinions.
Course Objective:
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Course Outcome:
> Students will be able to use linguistic and non linguistic resources of language in an integrated manner for communication. > Students will be able to analyse communication in terms of facts and opinions. > Students will be able to discuss, analyse and argue about issues related to language and power.
Unit I
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Unit II
Structure of Writing/Conversation:
- Language skills and the communication cycle; speaking and listening, writing and reading
- Initiating and closing conversations, intervention, turn taking
- Writing for target reader, rhetorical devices and strategies
- Coherence and Cohesion in speech and writing
Unit III
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Unit IV
Media Communication:
- Print media, electronic media, social media
- Power of media
- Manufacturing of opinion, fake news and hidden agendas
Unit V
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Text Books:
- Austin, 1962, J.L. How to do things with words. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Grice, P.1989. Studies in the way of words. Cambridge, M.A: Harvard University Press.
- Chomsky, N.1966. Aspects of the theory of syntax, The MIT press, Cambridge. Chomsky, N.2006. Language and Mind, Cambridge University Press.
- Hymes. D.N. 1972, On communication competence in J.B. Pride and J.Holmes (ed), Sociolinguistics, pp 269-293, London Penguin.
- Gilbert, H.Harman, 1976. Psychological aspect of the theory of syntax in Journal of Philosophy, page 75-87.
- Stephen. C. Levenson, 1983, Pragmatics, Cambridge University press.
- Stangley, J. 2007. Language in Context. Clarendon press, Oxford. 7. Shannon, 1942. A Mathematical Theory of Communication. 8. Searle, J.R. 1969. Speech acts: An essay in the philosophy of language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
For detailed syllabus of all the other subjects of Mechanical Engineering 3rd Sem, visit MECH 3rd Sem subject syllabuses for 2019 regulation.
For all Mechanical Engineering results, visit Anna University MECH all semester results direct link.