Syllabus
Topics:1. Introduction. Basic concepts2. Approaches to style 1. Style and register3. Approaches to style 2. Functional approaches to style4. Approaches to style: 3. Other schools and frameworks5. Intertextuality. Prior texts. Text types. Genres6. Structure / organisation of the text7. Texture 1. Cohesion, cohesive ties and the system of cohesive devices 8. Texture 2. Cohesive chains9. Thematic progressions10. Types and build-up of paragraphs, segmentation into paragraphs11. Coherence12. Summary; comprehensive analysis of a text sample
Syllabus 2021: 1.(14/10/21) Introduction. Basic concepts (Essential sources: Halliday, Hasan, chapter 1; moodle 1.4) Recommended sources: Esser 1; Widdowson (1); moodle 1.1; moodle 1.3 2. (21/10/21) Approaches to style 1. Style and register (Essential sources: Halliday, Hasan, chapters 2-3) Recommended sources: moodle 2.2; 3. (4/11/21) Approaches to style 2. Functional approaches to style (Essential sources: Crystal, Davy, esp. Chapter 3; Vachek); Recommended sources: Urbanová 4. Self-study: Approaches to style: 3. Other schools and frameworks (Essential sources: moodle 2.1; moodle 2.4); Recommended sources: Verdonk; 5. (11/11/21) Intertextuality. Prior texts. Text types. Genres (Essential sources: Esser 2.3; Esser, 6); Recommended sources. moodle 1.2; moodle 3.3; moodle 3.4 6. (18/11/21) Structure / organisation of the text (Essential source moodle 3.1) Recommended source moodle 3.2 7. (25/11/21) Texture 1. Cohesion, cohesive ties and the system of cohesive devices (Essential source: moodle 4.1) 8. (2/12/21) Texture 2. Cohesive chains (Essential source: moodle 4.1) Recommended source: moodle 4.2 9. (11/12/21) Thematic progressions (Essential source: moodle 5.1) Recommended source: moodle 5.2 10. (18/12/21) Types and build-up of paragraphs, segmentation into paragraphs (Essential source: moodle 6) 11. Self-study: Coherence (Essential source: Halliday, Hasan, chapter 6) 12. (6/1/22) Summary; comprehensive analysis of a text sample
Annotation
The course introduces the students into the parole area of linguistics, familiarizing them with essentials of textual and stylistic analysis. Since the course deals with macrotextual and microtextual phenomena and also takes account of some contrastive issues, it will be valuable for language proficiency and teaching.
Themes: 1. Introduction. Basic concepts 2. Approaches to style. Style and register. 3. Approaches to style. 2. Functional frameworks of style 4. Approaches to style. 3. Other schools and treatments 5. Intertextuality. Prior texts. Text types. Genres 6. Text Structure/Organization 7. Texture 1. Cohesive ties and the system of cohesive devices 8. Texture 2. Cohesive chains 9. Thematic progressions 10. Paragraph types, paragraphing and paragraph build-up 11. Coherence 12. Review; Comprehensive analysis of a sample