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Course: Text Linguistics

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Course title Text Linguistics
Course code KAA/MTELI
Organizational form of instruction Seminary
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 5
Language of instruction English
Status of course Compulsory, Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Course availability The course is available to visiting students
Lecturer(s)
  • Szczyrbak Magdalena Adriana, Dr. hab.
Course content
1) Introduction to text linguistics 2) Text, discourse and text type 3) Register, style and genre 4) Information structure 5) Cohesion 6) Coherence 7) Lexical cohesion in discourse 8) Discourse patterns and relations 9) Stylistic and rhetorical devices in discourse 10) Evaluative patterns in discourse 11) Multimodality in various discourses 12) Selected discourse types and genres

Learning activities and teaching methods
Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming), Work with text (with textbook, with book), Methods of individual activities, Skills training
  • Contact teaching - 26 hours per semester
  • Independent critical reading - 45 hours per semester
  • Home preparation for classes - 35 hours per semester
  • Preparation for an exam - 35 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is for students to become familiar with modern approaches to the structure of written texts. Students will learn to apply new methods of text analysis, both general and genre-specific, and assess their appropriateness to the analysis of various types of text. Building on students' basic theoretical knowledge of and practical experience with the concepts of coherence and cohesion, selected aspects of both issues will be addressed reflecting various approaches to text analysis, the peculiarities of the chosen text types as well as the possibility of students' application in their own writing. Students will be also acquainted with different approaches to the analysis of generic structure and will try to apply them to different genres.
Students will be able to apply various approaches to modern text analysis (e.g. genre analysis, discourse patterns and coherence relations) to different types of texts and use them in their own writing.
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Oral examination

- class attendance and active class participation (online and in person) - completion of home assignments - final course grade based on oral exam
Recommended literature
  • Bazerman, Charles and Paul A. Prior. What Writing Does and How It Does It: An Introduction to Analyzing Texts and Textual Practices.. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 2004.
  • Bhatia, Vijay. Worlds of Written Discourse: A Genre-Based View.. London and New York: Bloomsbury., 2014.
  • Biber, Douglas, Ulla Connor and Thomas A. Upton (eds.). Discourse On The Move: Using Corpus Analysis To Describe Discourse Structure.. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2007.
  • Brown, G., Yule, G. Discourse analysis. CUP, 1996.
  • Coulthard, Malcolm (ed.). Advances in Written Text Analysis. London: Routledge, 1994.
  • Daneš, František. Papers on Functional Sentence Perspective. Praha: Academia, 1974.
  • Dressler, W., Beaugrande de, R.A. Introduction to Text Linguistics. London: Routledge, 2002.
  • Esser, Jürgen. Introduction to English Text-Linguistics. Frankfurt am Mein, 2009.
  • Flowerdew, Lynne. Corpus-based Analyses of the Problem?Solution Pattern: A phraseological approach. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2003.
  • Gruber, Helmut and Peter Muntigl. Generic and rhetorical structures of texts: Two sides of the same coin? Folia Linguistica 39(1/2), 75-113. 2005.
  • Halliday, M.A.K. and Jonathan J. Webster. Text Linguistics: The How and Why of Meaning. London, 2014.
  • Hoey, Michael. Lexical Priming: A New Theory of Words and Language. London and New York: Routledge, 2005.
  • Hoey, Michael. Textual Interaction: An Introduction to Written Discourse Analysis. London and New York: Routledge, 2001.
  • Hunston, S. Corpus Approaches to Evaluation. Phraseology and Evaluative Language.. London: Routledge, 2011.
  • Mann, William C. and Sandra A. Thompson. Rhetorical Structure Theory: Toward a Functional Theory of Text Organization. Text 8, 243-281. 1988.
  • Martin, James R. and Peter R. R. White. Language of Evaluation: Appraisal in English. London/New York, 2005.
  • Renkema, Jan. Discourse, of Course. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2009.
  • Renkema, Jan. Introduction to Discourse Studies. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2004.
  • Scott, Mike and Geoff Thompson (eds.). Patterns of Text: In Honour of Michael Hoey. Patterns of Text: In Honour of Michael Hoey, 2001.
  • Taboada, M. T. Building Coherence and Cohesion. Task-oriented dialogue in English and Spanish.. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2004.
  • Tanskanen, Sana-Kaisa. Colaborating towards Coherence: Lexical Cohesion in English Discourse. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2006.


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