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Linguistics and web usability (639 words) |
 | From the early history of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) experts have acknowledged that Linguistics is one of the disciplines contributing to it. |
| If one of the goals of HCI is to produce usable systems, then linguistics has also a role to play in web interface and web usability though this may not have been officially acknowledged yet. |
| Linguists have not yet embarked on the project to study from their perspective the features of what could be labelled "usable language". |
| MA Applied Linguistics Open Distance Learning (1839 words) |
| It develops a linguistic approach to the analysis of discourse and shows how this can sharpen our awareness of spoken interaction, and in particular of the way teachers and pupils use language in the classroom. |
| The course introduces the key elements of the linguistic theory known as Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), an approach developed over the past 30 years by the British-born, Australian linguist, Michael Halliday and his colleagues working at universities and research centres in Europe, North and South America, Asia and Australia. |
| This introductory course will focus on how systemic linguistics can be applied to a diversity of text analysis tasks relevant to different fields such as language and literacy teaching, translation studies, English for special purposes, the language of classroom interaction, media and cultural studies, critical discourse analysis. |
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