- Code
- ELL 222
- Name
- Stylistics
- Semester
- 4
- Lecture hours
- 3.00
- Seminar hours
- 0.00
- Laborator hours
- 0.00
- Credits
- 3.00
- ECTS
- 5.00
- Description
-
This course aims to approach students` reading to styles of writing. Students get to know the style of language and how this results from the intra linguistic factors such as author, genre, historical period etc.
- Objectives
-
Students get to understand how insights from linguistics can be applied in the analysis of literary texts, in order to explain how texts mean and what interpretative effects such texts have on readers.
- Java
- Tema
- 1
- Unit 1: Introduction - What is Stylistics? Developments in Stylistics; Is there a 'literary language'? Language and literature (Roger Fowler and F.W. Bateson)
- 2
- Unit 2: Stylistic Classification of the EnglishVocabulary
- 3
- Unit 3:Levels of Language : Linguistic choice, style and meaning
- 4
- Unit 4: Word Classes. Activities
- 5
- Unit 5: Styles in a single poem: an exploration; Sound, style and onomatopoeia (Derek Attridge)
- 6
- Unit 6:Expressive Means. Stylistic Devices.Phonetic Expressive Means and Stylistic Devices
- 7
- Unit 7.Stylistic Devices Based on Polysemantic Effect. Activities and Analzsis. Review
- 8
- Midterm Exam
- 9
- Unit 7: Stylistic Devices Based on Poly-semantic Effect
- 10
- Unit 8: Style and point of view; Approaches to point of view; Exploring point of view in narrative fiction; Point of view
- 11
- Unit 9: Dialogue and discourse; Dialogue in drama; Exploring dialogue; Literature as discourse (Mary Louise Pratt)
- 12
- Unit 10: Cognitive stylistics; Developments in cognitive stylistics; Cognitive stylistics at work; Cognitive stylistics (Margaret Freeman)
- 13
- Unit 11.Functional Styles.
- 14
- Unit 12: Stylistics and verbal humour; Style and verbal humour (Walter Nash)
- 15
- Review
- 16
- Final Exam
- 1
- Students will be able to carry out a stylistic analysis of an authentic English language text.
- 2
- Students will know what links corpus based analysis to the more qualitative endeavors of the past, and how cognitive stylistics is related to literary criticism more generally.
- 3
- Students will be able to identify the fundamental principles of stylistics and explain how these are reflected in current research.
- Quantity Percentage Total percent
- Midterms
- 1 20% 20%
- Quizzes
- 0 0% 0%
- Projects
- 0 0% 0%
- Term projects
- 4 10% 40%
- Laboratories
- 0 0% 0%
- Class participation
- 0 10% 0%
- Total term evaluation percent
- 60%
- Final exam percent
- 40%
- Total percent
- 100%
- Quantity Duration (hours) Total (hours)
- Course duration (including exam weeks)
- 16 3 48
- Off class study hours
- 14 3 42
- Duties
- 4 0 0
- Midterms
- 1 9 9
- Final exam
- 1 14 14
- Other
- 2 6 12
- Total workLoad
- 125
- Total workload / 25 (hours)
- 5.00
- ECTS
- 5.00