Syllabus
1. Introduction. Basic Terminology 2. Approaches to Style 1. 3. Approaches to Style 2. 4. Approaches to Style 3. 5. Text Types.
Genres. 6. Structure/Organization 7. Texture – Cohesive Links 8. Cohesive Chains 9. Thematic Progressions 10. Paragraph Buildup 11. Revision 12. Comprehesive Analysis of a Sample
Annotation
This course aims to introduce students to the area of parole linguistics and to familiarize them with the study of text linguistics and stylistics. In its first part, the course proceeds from the outline of communicative event, various language functions, standards of textuality and crucially deals with some of the stylistic varieties, registers, genres and text types, applying the knowledge to authentic samples.
In its second part, the course explores particularly the structure/organization of discourse and microtextual phenomena (sometimes referred to as text syntax, primarily the area of cohesive links/chains) and works towards comprehensive analysis. 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 comprehensive analysis of an authentic text sample.