1. Semantics
Lexical semantics (reference, sense, synonyms, antonyms, polysemy, homophony, homonyms, heteronyms); compositional semantics; Semantic relations involving sentences (paraphrase, entailment, contradiction); when compositionality goes awry (anomaly, metaphor, idioms)

2. Pragmatics
Pronouns and other deictic words; Implicature; Presupposition; Speech acts

3. Language in society
Language Use and variation (dialects, styles, slang, taboos, language and sexism);
Language contact (lingua francas, pidgins and creoles, societal multilingualism)

4. Language acquisition
Theories of language acquisition; Stages in 1st language acquisition; The acquisition of morphology, syntax, and word meaning; 2nd language acquisition; Native language influence in L2 acquisition

5. Historical linguistics
Why do languages change; Lexical change (borrowings or loan words, semantic change); Morphological change; syntactic change; Phonological change; Extinct and endangered languages; Reconstructing dead languages.

6. Language typology and Writing systems
The genetic classification of languages; types of languages; Types of writing systems; The history of writing systems.

7. Practical Applications
What do you do with linguistics?
Language education; Speech therapy; Speech and hearing science; Communications (interpersonal & Public); Language in advertising; Translation studies; Literary criticism; Rhetoric; Politics (language policy, language in politics); Law (contract language); Philosophy.