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14185 English Stylistics - Five-year degree in English Philology

Center

Faculty of Philology, Translation and Communication

Departament

English and German

Lecturers in charge

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Met. Docent

Wherever possible the course aims at a close interdependence between stylistic theory and practical, illustrative work mostly based on literary texts.

Met. Avaluació

(1) Final exam (either (a) a series of questions based on items dealt with in class and/or on source material as stipulated by the lecturer; or (b) a series of multiple choice type questions; or a combination of both); and/or
(2) A paper (analysing a text, literary or non-literary).

Bibliografia

Crystal, David & Derek Davy (1969) Investigating English Style. London: Longman.
Fairclough, Norman (1995) Critical Discourse Analysis. London: Longman.
Haynes, J. (1995) Style. London: Routledge.
Mills, Sara (1995) Feminist Stylistics. London/New York: Routledge.
Widdowson, H.,G. (1992) Practical Stylistics. Oxford: O.U.P.

Continguts

Contents for the course:
PART A: THEORY
1.- MAIN CONCEPTS IN STYLISTICS
1.1. Introduction to style and stylistics. Definition of style and stylistics.
1.2. The concepts of text and discourse.
1.3. Linguistic functions.

2.- MAIN APPROACHES TO STYLISTICS
2.1. Formalist stylistics
2.2. Funcionalist stylistics
2.3. Stylistics and teaching
2.4. Pragmatic stylistics
2.5. Critical stylistics
2.6. Feminist stylistics

3.- STYLISTICS AND RHETORIC
3.1. Creative texts. Literary and non-literary uses and varieties. Stylistics vis a vis literary discourse.
3.2. Literary genres: prose, poetry, drama.
3.3. Figures of speech & rhetorical figures:
3.3.1. Graphology and Phonology (Alliteration, Epenthesis, Metathesis, Onomotopoeia, Rhythm, Rhyme, Syncope à)
3.3.2. Morphology and Syntax (Anaphora, Ellipsis, Hyperbaton, Pleonasm, Periphrasis, Polysyndeton, Synonymy à)
3.3.3. Lexis and Semantics (Tropes: Hyperbole, Irony, Litotes, Metaphor, Metonymy, Oxymoron, Synecdoche à)
3.3.4. Discourse.

4.- GENDER AND STYLISTICS
4.1. The gendered sentence (æwomanÆs sentenceÆ or the écriture féminine)
4.2. Gender and reader positions
4.3. Gender and genre
4.4. Sexism in language

PART B: PRACTICE
5.- PRACTICAL STYLISTIC ANALYSES
6.- GENDER AND STYLISTICS IN TRANSLATION

Objetius

Las variantes intralingüísticas del inglés. El medio oral y escrito. Los grados de formalismo en la expresión lingüítica dle inglés.

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