AJ3DC_LISE Linguistic Seminar

Faculty of Education
Autumn 2008
Extent and Intensity
0/0/12. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Olga Dontcheva-Navrátilová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Renata Povolná, Ph.D.
Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Jana Popelková
Prerequisites
Advanced level of English.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course introduces the students to a stylistic analysis of literary texts. It focuses on foregrounding, stylistic markers at different language layers, narrative stylistics, choices of point of view and stylised presentation of different registers and genres in literary texts; furthermore, the course tries to relate stylistic description to text interpretation and literary criticism.
At the end of this course, students should be able to understand and be able to explain the main stylistic features of a literary text, interpret literary texts and motivate their interpretation. An additional objective of this course is to prepare students to use literary texts in language teaching both as discussion topics and as a basis for acquiring grammatical structures and vocabulary items.
Syllabus
  • 1. Poetics and stylistcs, Stylistic analysis of literary texts.
  • 2. The style of an author, period, literary movement and genre.
  • 3. Literature as discourse. Domain, tenor and mode of discourse.
  • 4. Poetic discourse: structure, sound symbolism a meaning.
  • 5. Understanding poems. Using poems in creative writing.
  • 6. Narrative stylistics.
  • 7. Exploring point of view in narrative fiction. Linguistic indicators of point of view.
  • 8. Stylized dialogue in fiction. Speech acts and politeness. Dramatising a fictional prose text.
  • 9. Drama structure. Rewriting a drama text as a narrative. Performing a drama text.
  • 10. Stylised registers and genres in fictional prose.
Literature
  • SHORT, Mick. Exploring the language of poems, plays and prose. London: Longman, 1996, xiii, 399. ISBN 0582291305. info
  • LEECH, Geoffrey N. and Mick SHORT. Style in fiction : a linguistic introduction to English fictional prose. London: Longman, 1981, xiii, 402. ISBN 0582291038. info
  • LEECH, Geoffrey N. A linguistic guide to English poetry. Harlow: Longman, 1969, xv, 237. ISBN 0582550130. info
  • VERDONK, Peter. Stylistics. first published. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002, xiii, 124. ISBN 9780194372404. info
  • WALES, Katie. A dictionary of stylistics. 2nd ed. Harlow: Longman, 2001, viii, 429. ISBN 0582317371. info
  • Reading, analysing and teaching literature. Edited by Mick Short. Essex: Longman, 1989, viii, 315. ISBN 0582291577. info
Assessment methods
Compulsory participation in seminars.
Preparation includes reading articles and stylistic analysis of literary texts.
Five written assignments.
Active participation in forum discussions.
Seminar work.
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Teacher's information
http://moodlinka.ped.muni.cz/course/view.php?id=1138
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2007, Autumn 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017, Autumn 2018.
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