Syllabus
SYLLABUS 23 12/10/2023 Introduction; Comprehensive Exam and State Exam Requirements; Literary and Linguistic/Stylistic interpretation; preliminary sample analysis 19/10/2023 Methodology – Style in Fiction, Chapter 3; Home assignment: pre-analyse a prose sample 26/10/2023 Text analysis 1 – Prose sample 30/11/2023 Text analysis 2 – Poetry sample 7/12/2023 Text analysis 3 – Topic suggested by students 14/12/2023 Text analysis 4 – Topic suggested by students 21/12/2023 Text analysis 5 – Student sample analyses 4/1/2024 Text analysis 6 – Student sample analyses
Annotation
This module motivates the students to deepen their linguistic knowledge, it cultivates their stylistic sensitivity, develops their interpretive skills and reinforces interdisciplinary relationships. Seminar activities which are established on home preparation make use of diverse approaches to text and discourse. Topics:
1. Introduction. Instruments and objectives of linguistic interpretation
2. Prose, poetry and/or drama sample analysis
3. Academic, legal and/or political discourse sample analysis
4. Newspaper, magazine and/or advertising discourse sample analysis
5. Textbook, manual, guidebook and/or graded reader sample analysis
6. (to be suggested by the students themselves)