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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, style 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)
Last update: Pípalová Renata, doc. PhDr., CSc. (28.01.2025)
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The objective of this course is to familiarise the students with the foundations of the linguistic interpretation of texts and discourses and to explore how the individual language means combine in order to carry diverse meanings in distinct social, cultural and situational contexts Last update: Pípalová Renata, doc. PhDr., CSc. (31.01.2025)
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Self-study of literature 6 hours Working with study materials 20 hours Assignments 25 hours Seminar work 8 hours Preparation for the exam and passing the exam 10 hours Last update: Pípalová Renata, doc. PhDr., CSc. (28.01.2025)
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CREDITS will be given to students for their attendance (up to 2 missed classes will be toleratated), active participation in seminar discussions (i.e., based on thorough home analyses of the given text samples), for successful presentation of their own sample analysis and adequate standard of their seminar paper. Each student will hold their floor once per semester – distributing a week ïn advance their own sample for analysis, conducting their own linguistic interpretation/comprehensive analysis in class (the time limit will be specified), inviting others to participate actively, seeking their further comments and feedback. To complete the course successfully, at the latest a week before taking the written exam students have to turn in their comprehensive sample analysis in writing, taking the form of a seminar project meeting all the content and formal criteria. The project, which is at least three pages in length, is submitted in hard copy as well as electronically. If the content and/or form are not satisfactory, students may resubmit the paper once. THE EXAM is written and takes 60 minutes. The candidate compares two short authentic discourse samples in view of eight to ten relevant parameters/tendencies/features. Using these suitably chosen parameters the student characterises/interprets the similarities and differences between the samples in sufficient detail. Last update: Pípalová Renata, doc. PhDr., CSc. (28.01.2025)
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CARTER, Ronald, GODDARD, Angela, REAH, Danuta, SANGER, Keith, SWIFT, Maggie. Working with Texts: A Core Introduction to Language Analysis. 3rd ed. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2008. ISBN10: 0-415-41424-5. CRYSTAL, David. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. ISBN 0-521-40179-8. GEE, James P., HANDFORD, Michael. (eds) The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Analysis. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2014. ISBN 978-0-415-70978-1. HYLAND, Ken. Academic Discourse. English in a Global Context. London, New York: Continnuum, 2009. ISBN 978-0-8264-9804-5. JEFFRIES, Lesley. Critical Stylistics. The Power of English. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. ISBN 978 -0-333-96449-1. KOŘENSKÝ, Jan, HOFFMANNOVÁ, Jana, MŮLLEROVÁ, Olga. Analýza komunikačního procesu a textu. Olomouc: UP v Olomouci, 2013. ISBN 978-80-244-4032-3. LEECH, Geoffrey, SHORT, Michael. Style in Fiction: A Linguistic Introduction to English Fictional Prose. 2nd edition. Harlow: Pearson Education Ltd., 2007. ISBN 978-0-582-78409-3. REAH, Danuta. The Language of Newspapers. 2nd ed. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2002. ISBN10: 0-415-27805-8. SHORT, Michael. Exploring the Language of Poems, Plays and Prose. Abingdon: Routledge, 2015. ISBN 9780582291300. SIMPSON, Paul. Stylistics. A Resource Book for Students. London: Routledge, 2004. ISBN 0-41528105-9. VERDONK, Peter. Stylistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. ISBN 0-19-437240-5. Last update: Pípalová Renata, doc. PhDr., CSc. (26.01.2024)
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THE EXAM is written and takes 60 minutes. The student has to compare two short authentic discourse samples in view of eight to ten relevant parameters/tendencies/features. Elaborating on their findings in sufficient detail, the students strive to characterise and interpret the similarities and differences between the samples. Last update: Pípalová Renata, doc. PhDr., CSc. (28.01.2025)
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27/2/2025 Introduction; Instruments and objectives of linguistic interpretation; Methodology; Home assignment: pre-analyse a prose sample 6/3/2025 Text analysis 1 – Prose sample 13/3/2025 Text analysis 2 – Poetry sample 20/3/2025 Text analysis 3 – Topic suggested by students 27/3/2025 Text analysis 4 – Topic suggested by students and student sample analysis 3/4/2025 Text analysis 5 – Student sample analyses 10/4/2025 Text analysis 6 – Student sample analyses 24/4/2025 Text analysis 7 – Student sample analyses Last update: Pípalová Renata, doc. PhDr., CSc. (28.01.2025)
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Introduction; Instruments and objectives of linguistic interpretation; Students can compare the literary and stylistic-linguistic interpretation of texts/ discourses and can discuss similarities and differences between them; students can perform a preliminary analysis of a sample based on their current knowledge of relevant theories and approaches and using the skills they have already acquired Methodology – Style in Fiction, Chapter 3; Home assignment: pre-analyse a prose sample: Students can summarise and explain recommended approaches to the analyses and interpretations of samples; students can explain relevant concepts and terms and can elucidate the relationships between them; During their home preparation students analyse the sample under scrutiny, attending to its diverse features at various levels of description and they can interpret the sample Text analysis 1 – Prose sample During their home preparation students analyse the sample under scrutiny attending to its diverse features at various levels of description and they can interpret the sample; Students engage in seminar discussions on the individual parameters of the sample; students can provide suitable arguments Text analysis 2 – Poetry sample During their home preparation students analyse the sample under scrutiny attending to its diverse features at various levels of description and they can interpret the sample; Students engage in seminar discussions on the individual parameters of the sample; students can provide suitable arguments Text analyses 3 – 4 Topics suggested by students During their home preparation students analyse the sample under scrutiny attending to its diverse features at various levels of description and they can interpret the sample; Students engage in seminar discussions on the individual parameters of the sample; students can provide suitable arguments Text analyses 4-7 Student presentations of their own sample analyses Students can find independently a suitable text/discourse sample of reasonable length and can distribute it to their peers and to the teacher well ahead of the presentation date; they can characterise the sample from many perspectives according to the framework introduced at the onset of the course and other suitable theories and approaches; students can give relevant arguments Last update: Pípalová Renata, doc. PhDr., CSc. (31.01.2025)
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