Syllabus
1. (24/2) Introduction; Text linguistics: Cohesion and coherence 2. (3/3) Text linguistics and stylistics: Register, text type, genre, stylistic variation; intertextuality 3. (10/3) Phonetics 4. (17/3) Stylistics: Literacy and Orality; 5. (24/3) Stylistics: (In)formality and interaction 6. (7/4) Pragmatics: Principles and presuppositions 7. (14/4) Pragmatics: Producer´s intentionality and recipient´s acceptability 8. (21/4) Sociolinguistics: Reginal and social variation of English 9. (28/4) Psycholinguistics and informativity: (de)coding; acquisition and loss of language
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 primarily on 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 presentations on the selected given topics, through their peer-reviewing of the presentations, and by analysing a variety of authentic text samples in view of the particular linguistic areas. The lessons may occasionally combine features of lectures, seminars and workshops.