Annotation
This course introduces students to the study of text linguistics and stylistics. It proceeds from the microtextual phenomena
(sometimes referred to as text syntax, primarily the area of cohesive links/chains) and works towards macrotextual analysis.
Later in the course, students focus on a wide variety of functional styles, registers and genres. Naturally, the recommended sources come especially from the English-speaking world, though in view of the domestic functionalist and structuralist tradition, some topics are studied in a contrastive manner. Special emphasis is put on the achievements of Czech linguistics in the area of FSP (primarily the contextual factor), thematic progressions and the build-up of paragraph. Attention is also paid to the application of the phenomena when teaching and using the language.
The seminar project consists of a review of a comprehensive analysis of an authentic text sample.