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Text Linguistics and Stylistics - OPNA4A011A
Title: Text Linguistics and Stylistics
Guaranteed by: Katedra anglického jazyka a literatury (41-KAJL)
Faculty: Faculty of Education
Actual: from 2022
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 4
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:1/1, C+Ex [HT]
Extent per academic year: 0 [hours]
Capacity: 40 / 40 (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
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. Markéta Malá, Ph.D.
doc. PhDr. Renata Pípalová, CSc.
Teacher(s): doc. PhDr. Renata Pípalová, CSc.
Is pre-requisite for: OPNA4A043A, OPNA4A032B, OPNA4A031B, OPNA4A021A
Annotation -
Last update: doc. PhDr. Renata Pípalová, CSc. (09.09.2023)
The course introduces the students into the parole area of linguistics, familiarizing them with essentials of textual and stylistic analysis. Since the course deals with macrotextual and microtextual phenomena and also takes account of some contrastive issues, it will be valuable for language proficiency and teaching. Topics: 1. Introduction. Basic concepts 2. Approaches to style I. Style and register. 3. Approaches to style II. Functional frameworks of style 4. Approaches to style III. Other schools and treatments 5. Intertextuality. Prior texts. Text types. Genres 6. Text Structure/Organization 7. Texture 1. Cohesive ties and the system of cohesive devices 8. Texture 2. Cohesive chains 9. Thematic progressions 10. Paragraph types, paragraphing and paragraph build-up 11. Coherence 12. Review; Comprehensive analysis of a sample
Descriptors -
Last update: doc. PhDr. Renata Pípalová, CSc. (09.09.2023)

self-study of literature: 20 hours per semester;

individual work with study materials: 10 hours per semester;

seminar paper

Literature -
Last update: doc. PhDr. Renata Pípalová, CSc. (09.09.2023)

CRYSTAL, David, DAVY, Derek. Investigating English Style. 16th ed. Abingdon, Oxon and New York: Routledge, 2013. ISBN 9780582 550 11 7.

DANEŠ, František. “Functional Sentence Perspective“ and Text Connectedness. In: Maria E. Conte, Janos S. PETӦFI, Emel SӦZER (eds). Text and Discourse Connectedness. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Co., 23-31, 1989. ISBN9789027230171

DANEŠ, František. The Paragraph. A Central Unit of the Thematic and Compositional Buildup of Texts, InBrita WARVIK, Sanna K.TANSKANEN, Risto HILTUNEN (eds) Organization of Discourse, Proceedings from the Turku Conference, Turku: University of Turku, 1995, 29-40. ISBN 951-29-0572-8.

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

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

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

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

JOHNSTONE, Barbora. Discourse Analysis. Malden, Mass.; Oxford: Blackwell. 3rd ed. 2018. ISBN 978-111 9257691.

NORGAARD, Nina, BUSSE, Beatrix, MONTORO, Rocio. Key Terms in Stylistics, London, New York: Continuum, 2010. ISBN 978-0-8264-1948-4.

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

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

Requirements to the exam -
Last update: doc. PhDr. Renata Pípalová, CSc. (09.09.2023)

CREDIT Students are entitled to a credit based on their regular attendance, active participation in seminars, and based on an adequate seminar paper. The seminar paper features a critical review of a study dealing with a text linguistic or stylistic topic of the student´s own choice (up to a page in length), followed by a ready-to-use teaching activity designed by the student themselves on the same topic, elaborated for a particular age and proficiency level target group, followed by suitable text-linguistic or stylistic comments. If the seminar paper does not meet the content and formal requirements, the student may resubmit a paper on a different topic once during the same exam period.

MINITESTS Two lectures (9/11 and 14/12) will include optional motivating minitesting. Minitests are voluntary theoretical or practical-analytical tasks on material covered up in the course until the particular date. The overall results in minitests profile the student´s work over the semester. For each excellent result in a minitest (100%), the student gains 2 pts by which their overall exam result will be boosted.

THE EXAM A student may take the written exam as long as they completed successfully all the seminar requirements (adequate attendance, active participation in seminars, and an adequate seminar paper turned in electronically and in hard copy by the last seminar). Before taking the practical part of the written exam, the candidate produces their reading list, which features essential secondary sources and a minimum of three sources recommended for reading with three different syllabus topics.

The exam is designed to verify factual theoretical knowledge and practical-analytical skills gained in Text Linguistics and Stylistics. It consists of two parts of equal value (max 30pts each), both held on the same day. However, the success in the theoretical part (a minimum of 15pts) represents a prerequisite for taking the practical (analytical) part. Therefore, failure in the theoretical part (less than 15pts) means the student failed all the exam and has to resit it. For a successful completion of the entire exam, the requirement is set at 40pts/60pts. Each student may take the exam three times during the same exam period. If they choose not to sign up for the exam dates registered in the SIS, they will not be offered any extra dates later in the exam period.

The theoretical part verifies the student´s theoretical familiarity with the terms, concepts and issues covered in the course. The practical-analytical part represents a comprehensive analysis of an unfamiliar sample from the standpoint of the topics covered in the course (including the student´s readings).

In all written work, the proficiency and formulation skills are part of the overall assessment. Feedback for all written work throughout the course is provided to students on their initiative (by email) in office time.

Syllabus -
Last update: doc. PhDr. Renata Pípalová, CSc. (09.09.2023)

SYLLABUS 2023

1.(12/10/23) Introduction. Basic concepts (Essential sources: Halliday, Hasan, chapter 1; moodle 1.4; Recommended sources: Esser 1; Widdowson 1; moodle 1.1; moodle 1.3)

2. (19/10/23) Approaches to style 1. Style and register (Essential sources: Halliday, Hasan, chapters 2-3; Recommended source: moodle 2.2)

3. (26/10/23) Approaches to style 2. Functional approaches to style (Essential sources: Crystal, Davy, esp. Chapter 3; Recommended source: Vachek; Urbanová)

4. (2/11/23) Approaches to style: 3. Other schools and frameworks (Essential source: moodle 2.1; moodle 2.4; Recommended source: Verdonk)

5. (9/11/23) Intertextuality. Prior texts. Text types. Genres (Essential sources: Halliday, Hasan, Coda: Text, Context and Learning Esser 2.3; Esser, 6; Recommended sources: moodle 1.2; moodle 3.3; moodle 3.4)

6. (16/11/23) Structure / organisation of the text (Essential source: moodle 3.1; Recommended source: moodle 3.2)

7. (23/11/23) Texture 1. Cohesion, cohesive ties and the system of cohesive devices (Essential source: moodle 4.1)

8. (2/12/23) Texture 2. Cohesive chains (Essential source: moodle 4.1; Recommended source: moodle 4.2)

9. (7/12/23) Thematic progressions (Essential source: moodle 5.1; Recommended source: moodle 5.2)

10. (14/12/23) Types and build-up of paragraphs, paragraphing (Essential source: mood. 6)

11. (21/12/23) Coherence  (Essential source: Halliday, Hasan, chapter 6)

12. (4/1/24) Review; comprehensive analysis of a text sample

Course completion requirements -
Last update: doc. PhDr. Renata Pípalová, CSc. (09.09.2023)

Regular attendance (up to two seminars may be missed)

Active participation is seminar activities

Regular reading of secondary sources and self-study

Reading list

One seminar paper turned in by the last seminar both in hard copy and electronically

Written exam (both parts), a minimum 40/60pts.

 
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