Text-Linguistics and Stylistics - OPNA2A103A
Title: Textová lingvistika a stylistika
Guaranteed by: Katedra anglického jazyka a literatury (41-KAJL)
Faculty: Faculty of Education
Actual: from 2017
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 3
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:1/1, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
Guarantor: doc. PhDr. Renata Pípalová, CSc.
Is incompatible with: OPNZ0A140A
Is pre-requisite for: OPNA2A107A
Is interchangeable with: OPNZ0A140A
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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.
Last update: Jančovičová Ivana, Mgr. (12.09.2017)
Descriptors -

 

During the pandemic situation online teaching will be based on the moodle platform and enriched with the interaction via Zoom.

In addition, the students may send all kinds of queries by email (renata.pipalova@pedf.cuni.cz). 

Last update: Pípalová Renata, doc. PhDr., CSc. (25.09.2020)
Course completion requirements -

CREDITS will be given  to students for a) their active participation in seminars (which includes acccomplishing regularly various tasks, such as reading assignments; two missed classes per semester are allowed)                      b) submitting a hard copy and an electronic version of an adequate seminar paper (the instructions being provided during the first seminar) by the stipulated deadline, meeting all the length, formal and factual (content) standards. Not satisfying conditions a) active participation in seminars and b) submitting an adequate seminar paper (in both versions) by the stipulated deadline automatically precludes the credits being given  for the subject in the semester. Students whose paper turned in by the deadline is found to be of poor quality (i.e. less than 15pts) will be allowed to deal with a different  text sample and re-submit the seminar paper once still  within the same  exam period. A successful candidate (i.e. with seminar papers over 15 pts) does not resubmit their seminar paper, for it is considered to profile the student´s effort throughout the semester. Note. Since the seminar paper constitutes 50% of the grade, it may  manifest solely the perfomance of individual students. Hence no plagiarism and collaborative features in their accomplishment will be tolerated.

 

EXAM is written exclusively and is in fact composed of two parts. The first part, verifying practical analytical skills, is constituted by the seminar paper (max. 30pts). The second part features a theoretical test and assesses the theoretical knowledge gained in the course (30pts). The grade is established on the assessment of both parts of the written exam.  If necessary, performance in seminars may also be taken account of. To pass the exam successfully, the student needs to achieve a minimum of 40pts altogether. However, the results in individual parts should not fall below 15pts. While an inadequate seminar paper may be re-submitted once (as stipulated above), the theoretical part may be taken up to three times altogether (students are allowed to re-sit the theoretical part twice). Note: Students may sit  the theoretical test only after their seminar paper has been accepted. 

Last update: Pípalová Renata, doc. PhDr., CSc. (16.09.2019)
Literature -

 

ESSENTIAL SOURCES

ESSER, J. Introduction to English Text-Linguistics. Peter Lang. Frankfurt am Main, 2009. ISBN 978-3-631-56003-7.

HALLIDAY, M.A.K. and  R. HASAN. Language, Context, and Text: Aspects of Language in a Social-Semiotic Perspective. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1985. ISBN:0-19-437154-9.

DANEŠ, F. The Paragraph. A Central Unit of the Thematic and Compositional Buildup of Texts, In: Organization of Discourse, Proceedings from the Turku Conference, ed. Warvik, B., Tanskannen, S.K. Hiltunenn, R. Turku, 1995, p.29-40, Turku: University of Turku. ISBN 951-29-0572-8.

DANEŠ, F., GREPL, M. and  HLAVSA, Z. (eds) Mluvnice češtiny III. Praha: Academia, 1987.

CRYSTAL, D.and DAVY, D. Investigating English Style. London: Routledge, 2013 (1969). ISBN978-0-582-55-011-7.

URBANOVÁ, L. Stylistika anglického jazyka. Filozofická fakulta Masarykovy univerzity: Brno, 2008. ISBN 9788087029299.

VERDONK, P. Stylistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2003. ISBN 0-19-437240-5.

WIDDOWSON, H.G. Discourse Analysis. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2007. ISBN 978 O 19 4389211

 RECOMMENDED SOURCES

BROWN, G. a G. YULE. Discourse Analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. ISBN 0 521 28475 9

DE BEAUGRANDE, R.A., DRESSLER, W.: Introduction to Text Linguistics, London: Longman, 1981, ISBN 978-0582554856

DUŠKOVÁ, L. From Syntax to Text. The Janus Face of Functional Sentence Perspective. Praha: Karolinum. 2015. ISBN 978-80-246-2879-0.

FAIRCLOUGH, N. Analyzing Discourse: Textual Analysis for Social Research. London and New York: Routledge, 2003. ISBN 0-415-25893-6.

FIRBAS, J., Functional Sentence Perspective in Written and Spoken Communication. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. ISBN 0 521 3708 5
FIRBAS, J. On the Thematic and on the Rhematic Layers of Texts. In: Organization of Discourse, Proceedings from the Turku Conference, ed. Warvik, B., Tanskannen, S.K. Hiltunenn, R. Turku, 1995, p.29-40, Turku: University of Turku. ISBN 951-29-0572-8.

GEE, J. P. An Introduction to Discourse Analysis: Theory and Method. 3rd ed. Routledge. 2011. ISBN 0-415-58570-8

GEE, J. P. How to do Discourse Analysis: a Toolkit. London: Routledge, 2010. ISBN 0-415-57208-8.

JOHNSTONE, B. Discourse Analysis. Malden, Mass.; Oxford: Blackwell. 2nd ed. 2008. ISBN 978-1-4051-4427-8.

HALLIDAY, M.A.K. a R. HASAN. Cohesion in English. Harlow: Longman, 1976. ISBN 0-582-55041-6

HOEY, M. Textual Interaction: an Introduction to Written Discourse Analysis. London and New York: Routledge, 2001. ISBN  O-415-231169-8.

HOFFMANNOVÁ, J. Stylistika a…., Praha: Trizonia 1997. ISBN 80-85573-67-9.

NORGAARD, N., BUSSE, B., MONTORO, R. (eds.) Key Terms in Stylistics, London, Nw York: Continuum 2010. ISBN 978-0-8264-1948-4.

PÍPALOVÁ, R. Thematic Organization of Paragraphs and Higher Text Units. Praha. PEDF UK. ISBN 978-80-7290-346-7.

SCHIFFRIN, D. Approaches to Discourse. Blackwell Publishing. 1994. ISBN 0-631-16623-8.

TÁRNYIKOVÁ, J. From Text to Texture: An Introduction to Processing Strategies. Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci: Olomouc, 2009. ISBN 9788024424293

VACHEK, J. Chapters from Modern English Lexicology and Stylistics, Praha:  SNP, 1991

 
Last update: Pípalová Renata, doc. PhDr., CSc. (09.05.2019)
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

 

 
Last update: Jančovičová Ivana, Mgr. (12.09.2017)