Syllabus
1. Introduction; Phonetics 2.
Text linguistics - Cohesion and Coherence 3. Text Linguistics - Register, Text Type, Intertextuality 3.
Stylistics - Orality and Literacy 4. Stylistics - (In)formality 5.
Pragmatics - Principles 6. Pragmatics - Producer´s Intentionality and Recipient´s Acceptability 7.
Sociolinguistics - Regional Variation 8. Sociolinguistics - Social Variation 9.
Psycholinguistics and Informativity 10. Revision - making use of the contrastive approach
Annotation
This option serves partly remedial, and partly consolidating, functions. It is also designed to deepen the student’s knowledge and may have a motivating force.
It focusses on the primarily parole disciplines. The seminar strives to interrelate theory with practical analysis, and wherever necessary, adopts the contrastive approach.
The students take a crucial, active part in seminar activities, viz. through short presentations on the selected given topics, through their peer-reviewing of the presentations, and by analysing specific authentic text samples in view of the particular linguistic areas. The lessons may occasionally combine features of lectures, seminars and workshops.