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An Introduction to English Stylistics - AAA400101
Title: Stylistika
Guaranteed by: Department of the English Language and ELT Methodology (21-UAJD)
Faculty: Faculty of Arts
Actual: from 2015
Semester: summer
Points: 2
E-Credits: 4
Examination process: summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, C [HT]
Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: not taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Is provided by: AAA500101
Guarantor: prof. doc. PhDr. Libuše Dušková, DrSc.
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Annotation -
Last update: BRUHOVA/PEDF.CUNI.CZ (30.09.2010)
The course acquaints students with basic concepts of linguistic stylistics and stylistic theory, especially the British theory of registers. It concentrates on stylistic analysis of different sorts of texts, based on identification of stylistically marked features. Its objective is to develop awareness of stylistic distinctions on different language levels, and to cultivate stylistically appropriate use of English in different communicative situations.
Literature -
Last update: BRUHOVA/PEDF.CUNI.CZ (30.09.2010)

D. Crystal and D. Davy: Investigating English Style, 1st ed. 1969

G. Leech and M. Short: Style in Fiction, 1981

G. M.Turner: Stylistics,1973

L. Urbanová and A. Oakland, Úvod do anglické stylistiky, 2002

L. Urbanová, Stylistika anglického jazyka, 2008

Teaching methods -
Last update: BRUHOVA/PEDF.CUNI.CZ (30.09.2010)

seminar

Syllabus -
Last update: BRUHOVA/PEDF.CUNI.CZ (30.09.2010)

Topics

1. Varieties of English; variety labels

2. Stylistic information in grammars and dictionaries

3. Stylistic information in dictionaries and usage manuals

4. Style in the vocabulary: neutral words vs. stylistically marked words; words with stylistically elevated connotations.

5. Style in the vocabulary: neutral words vs. stylistically marked words; words with stylistically lowered connotations

6. Style as contextually restricted linguistic variation; relevant contextual features; classification of texts, language functions

7. Concepts of British stylistic theories: time, region, field, medium, tenor

8. Speaker-bound and situation-bound dimensions of stylistic analysis

9. Inherent style markers vs. distributional style markers; style markers in lexis and grammar.

10. Inherent style markers vs. distributional style markers; style markers on the suprasentential level

11. Stylostatistics.

12. Figures of speech.

Besides an outline of a topic, each seminar concentrates on stylistic analysis of a different sort of text (conversation, unedited speech, academic prose, newspaper reporting, the language of religion, the language of legal documents, the language of written instructions, compressed English).

Optional subject of the examination in Special Programme English Language and Linguistics

 
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