A. Introduction: Key Basic Concepts
1. Phonetics and phonology
2. Morphology and lexicology
3. Semantics and pragmatics
4. Grammatical parts
5. Text and discourse
6. Early language acquisition
7. Psycholinguistics
8. Origins of English
9. Sociolinguistics
10. World Englishes
11. Stylistics
12. Methodological paradigms
13. Language theories
B. Development: Aspects of English
1. Consonants and vowels
2. Lexical semantics
3. Pragmatic principles
4. Syntax
5. Conversation
6. Literacy
7. Schemas and worlds
8. Standardisation and language change
9. Language attitudes
10. Codification
11. Stylistic analysis
12. Techniques and ethics
13. Language and thought
C. Exploration: Investigating English Language
1. Performing accents
2. Word plays
3. Doing politeness
4. Syntactic effects
5. Texts in action
6. Learning to read
7. Exploring the mind
8. Corrections
9. Identify yourself
10. Influencing language
11. Exploring literature
12. Collecting data
13. Theory into practice
D. Extension: Linguistic Readings
1. Articulating masculinity (Kiesling)
2. The search for units of meaning (Sinclair)
3. The speech acts of the in-group (Cutting)
4. Prefabricated expressions in spoken language (Cheshire)
5. Advertising discourse (Cook)
6. Socialisation and grammatical development (Ochs and Schieffelin)
7. Promoting perception (Field)
8. Lexical change (Smith)
9. Social relationships and social practices (Milroy and Gordon)
10. The development of World Englishes (Kirkpatrick)
11. Speech and thought as point of view (Simpson)
12. Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods research (Dornyei)
13. Researching ‘real’ language (Carter and Sealey)