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Lecturer(s)
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Haupt Jaromír, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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Full-time programme Revision: Linguistic disciplines and categories. Analytic activities. Text, context, communication. Beyond syntax: coherence, schemata, scripts. Classifying coherence relations. Linguistic manifestations of coherence. Cohesion, types and cohesive chains. Problem-Solution patterns and their linguistic signals. Gap-In-Knowledge and other patterns across various texts. Content/signalling nouns. Text types: a bottom-up language-based approach to classification Written vs. spoken discourse. The concept of genre and generic structure: Moves and their linguistic features. The genre of hard news. Ambiguity in headlines. Pragmatics: Theory of implicature. Speech acts - locutionary meaning, illocutionary force, perlocutionary effect. Distance programme Session 1: Weeks 1 - 3 Session 2: Weeks 4 - 6 Session 3: Weeks 7 - 9 Session 4: Weeks 10 - 12
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Self-study (text study, reading, problematic tasks, practical tasks, experiments, research, written assignments), Lecture, Students' self-study
- Class attendance
- 28 hours per semester
- Home preparation for classes
- 32 hours per semester
- Preparation for exam
- 30 hours per semester
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Learning outcomes
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The course seeks to introduce students to textual and contextual perspectives on language and help them understand how the language system can be instrumental in the buildup of a text and fulfilling its purpose. A subsidiary aim is the revision and consolidation of their knowledge of the language system. Special attention is given to recurrent patterns in text and various kinds of links within a text. Students are lead to ponder about how the perspectives introduced in the course can be applied in teaching language skills, in particular reading and writing.
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Prerequisites
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unspecified
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Oral exam, Written exam, Written assignment
Full-time programme The course is finished with an oral exam. To be allowed to sit the exam, students are supposed - to participate actively in classes (two absences tolerated) - to successfully complete a test and two home assignments using authentic texts of British/ American English published in 2024. If a test is missed for a serious reason, the student will be given another chance. Otherwise, it will be considered a fail. Part time programme The course is finished with an oral exam. To be able to sit for the exam, students are supposed - to prepare all the tasks set as homework by the dates given by the instructor - to successfully complete a test and two home assignments using authentic texts of British/ American English published in 2024. If a test is missed for a serious reason, the student will be given another chance. Otherwise, it will be considered a fail.
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Recommended literature
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Alexander, L.G. Longman Advanced Grammar.. Longman, 1993.
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Biber, D. et al. Discourse on the move: using corpus analysis to describe discourse structure. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2007.
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Biber, Douglas. et al. Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English. London: Longman, 1999.
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Cater, R. et al. Working with Texts. Routledge, 1998.
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Flowerdew, J. and R. W. Forest. Signalling Nouns in English: A Corpus-Based Discourse Approach. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
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Halliday, M.A.K. and R. Hasan. Cohesion in English.. Pearson Education Ltd., 1976.
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Hoey, M. Textual interaction: an introduction to written discourse analysis. 1st pub.. London: Routledge., 2001.
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Quirk, R. and S. Greenbaum. A Student´s Grammar of the English Language. Longman, 2010.
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Yule, G. Pragmatics.. Oxford, 2002.
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