AJ22101 Genre Analysis

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2018
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 2 credit(s) (plus 3 credits for an exam). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Jaromír Haupt, Ph.D. (lecturer)
prof. Mgr. Jan Chovanec, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Jana Chamonikolasová, Ph.D.
Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Tomáš Hanzálek
Supplier department: Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
each even Tuesday 12:00–13:40 C43
Prerequisites
None.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 20 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/20, only registered: 0/20
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Learning outcomes
Upon successful completion of the course, the student should be able to:
identify and describe the elements of generic structure in a text;
relate them to other types of discourse patterns;
identify the linguistic and pragmatic features characteristic of these elements;
identify aspects of context, in particular the purpose of the genre and relate them to the surface features;
identify and describe aspects of the context characteristic of the genre
Syllabus
  • Bateman, John A. Multimodality and Genre: A Foundation for the Systemic Analysis of Multimodal Documents. New York: Palgrave., 2008. Swales, John M. Research Genres: Explorations and Applications.. Cambridge: CUP., 2004. Doporučená: Ventola, Eija (ed.). Discourse and Community. Doing Functional Linguistics Language in Performance 21.. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag., 2000. Doporučená: Renkema, Jan (ed.). Introduction to Discourse Studies.. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins., 2004. Doporučená: Scott, Mike and Geoff Thompson (eds.). Patterns of Text: In Honour of Michael Hoey.. Amsterdam: John Benjamins., 2001. Doporučená: Ghadessy, Mohsen (ed.). Register Analysis: Theory and Practice. London and New York: Pinter Publishers., 1993.
Literature
  • BIBER, Douglas, Ulla CONNOR and Thomas A. UPTON. Discourse on the move : using corpus analysis to describe discourse structure. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2007, xii, 289. ISBN 9789027223029. info
  • MARTIN, J. R. and David ROSE. Genre relations : mapping culture. First published. London: Equinox, 2008, x, 289. ISBN 9781845530471. info
  • HOEY, Michael. Textual interaction : an introduction to written discourse analysis. 1st pub. London: Routledge, 2001, xvii, 203. ISBN 0415231698. info
  • BIBER, Douglas and Susan CONRAD. Register, genre, and style. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009, ix, 344. ISBN 9780521860604. info
  • HOEY, Michael. Lexical priming : a new theory of words and language. First published. New York: Routledge, 2005, xiii, 202. ISBN 0415328624. info
  • BHATIA, V. K. Worlds of written discourse. 1st publ. London: Continuum, 2004, xvii, 228. ISBN 0826454461. info
  • SWALES, John. Genre analysis : English in academic and research settings. 1st pub. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990, xi, 260. ISBN 0521328691. info
Assessment methods
final test 40 points of the mark (at least 24 needed) final essay (analytical) 60% of the mark (at least 30 pts to pass)
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
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