This course aims to stimulate reflection on language as a ubiquitous and symbolic system of representation and communication, based on 10 stories or questions: some of them are more familiar and close to the daily experience of speakers and are subjected to analysis, while others open the study of language to broader frameworks, such as the cultural origin of human language, the stages of language development or the ways in which language is realized.

The exploration of these situations will also provide an introduction to the main areas of linguistic study: phonetics, morphology, lexicology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, and psycholinguistics. By the end of the semester, participants should be able to recognize and formulate a linguistic problem, proposing an analysis based on the most appropriate linguistic concepts and theories. Through the study of different problems, it is intended to stimulate the capacity for meta-linguistic analysis and sensitivity to the cognitive, expressive and interactive limits and potentialities of language.