Syllabus
Introduction; Phonetics
2. Text linguistics: Cohesion and coherence
3. Text linguistics and stylistics: Register, text type, genre, stylistic variation; intertextuality
4. Stylistics: Orality and literacy;
5. Stylistics: (In)formality and interaction
6. Pragmatics: Principles and presuppositions
7. Pragmatics: Producer´s intentionality and recipient´s acceptability
8. Sociolinguistics: Reginal and social variation of English
9. Psycholinguistics and informativity: (de)coding; acquisition and loss of language
Annotation
This option serves partly remedial, and partly consolidating, functions. It is also designed to deepen the student’s knowledge and may have a motivating force.
It focusses primarily on parole disciplines. The seminar strives to interrelate theory with practical analysis, and wherever necessary, adopts the contrastive approach.
The students take a crucial, active part in seminar activities, viz. through presentations on the selected given topics, through their peer-reviewing of the presentations, and by analysing a variety of authentic text samples in view of the particular linguistic areas. The lessons may occasionally combine features of lectures, seminars and workshops.