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Text Linguistics and Stylistics

Class at Faculty of Education |
OPNA4A011A

Syllabus

SYLLABUS 2023 1.(12/10/23) 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. (19/10/23) Approaches to style 1.

Style and register (Essential sources: Halliday, Hasan, chapters 2-3; Recommended source: moodle 2.2) 3. (26/10/23) Approaches to style 2. Functional approaches to style (Essential sources: Crystal, Davy, esp.

Chapter 3; Recommended source: Vachek; Urbanová) 4. (2/11/23) Approaches to style: 3. Other schools and frameworks (Essential source: moodle 2.1; moodle 2.4; Recommended source: Verdonk) 5. (9/11/23) Intertextuality.

Prior texts. Text types.

Genres (Essential sources: Halliday, Hasan, Coda: Text, Context and Learning Esser 2.3; Esser, 6; Recommended sources: moodle 1.2; moodle 3.3; moodle 3.4) 6. (16/11/23) Structure / organisation of the text (Essential source: moodle 3.1; Recommended source: moodle 3.2) 7. (23/11/23) Texture 1. Cohesion, cohesive ties and the system of cohesive devices (Essential source: moodle 4.1) 8. (2/12/23) Texture 2.

Cohesive chains (Essential source: moodle 4.1; Recommended source: moodle 4.2) 9. (7/12/23) Thematic progressions (Essential source: moodle 5.1; Recommended source: moodle 5.2) 10. (14/12/23) Types and build-up of paragraphs, paragraphing (Essential source: mood. 6) 11. (21/12/23) Coherence  (Essential source: Halliday, Hasan, chapter 6) 12. (4/1/24) Review; 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. Topics:

1. Introduction. Basic concepts

2. Approaches to style I. Style and register.

3. Approaches to style II. Functional frameworks of style

4. Approaches to style III. 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

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