PdF:AJ2BP_TANA Text Analysis - Course Information
AJ2BP_TANA Text Analysis
Faculty of EducationSpring 2005
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/1/0. 1 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. Mgr. Olga Dontcheva-Navrátilová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
- Guaranteed by
- doc. PhDr. Renata Povolná, Ph.D.
Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Mgr. Petra Hoydenová - Timetable of Seminar Groups
- AJ2BP_TANA/01: Wed 8:30–9:15 šatna
AJ2BP_TANA/02: Wed 9:20–10:05 učebna 63 - Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in English Language and Literature (programme PdF, M-ZS5)
- Course objectives
- The aim of the course is to extend and practice the acquired knowledge of the student in the field of linguistic studies and to aplly it in the analysis of situationally defined texts (register, style, genre). The grammatical means ate considered with regards to their role in the building of the textual structure and texture. The course further includes creating language teaching materials based on discourse strategies designed for upper grades of secondary school students.
- Syllabus
- 1. The notion of text. Text and non-text. 2. Standards of textuality.Intertextuality. 3. Sociolinguistics insights - text and context. 4. Methods of analysis - DA and CDA.A framework for text analysis. 5. The structure of a text. Text typology. 6. The texture of a text. Cohesion and coherence. 7. Patterns of thematic progression. 8. Text analysis - markers of formality and politeness. 9. Spoken text analysis - markers of subjectivity and implicitness. 10. Written text analysis - markers of objectivity and explicitness.
- Literature
- CARTER, Ronald. Working with texts : a core book for language analysis. London: Routledge, 1997, xv, 331 s. ISBN 0-415-14597-X. info
- GEANEY, Declan. Discourse analysis and related topics for teachers of English as a second language. 1. vyd. Praha: Univerzita Karlova, 1996, 153 s. ISBN 8071842176. info
- MCCARTHY, Michael. Discourse analysis for language teachers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991, x, 213. ISBN 0521367468. info
- COOK, Guy. Discourse. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989, xi, 167. ISBN 0194371409. info
- HALLIDAY, M. A. K. and Ruqaiya HASAN. Language, context, and text : aspects of language in a socialsemiotic perspective. 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989, xiv, 126. ISBN 0194371549. info
- DEUCHAR, Margaret, Robert HOOGENRAAD and Geoffrey Neil LEECH. English grammar for today :a new introduction. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1982, xvi, 224 s. ISBN 0-333-30644-9. info
- Assessment methods (in Czech)
- Typ výuky: seminář Course requirements: Active participation at seminars - no more than 2 unexcused absences tolerated Fulfilling all homework tasks Sit for 2 progress tests - failure at both means lowering the final grade by one point Exam: written part - prerequisite for sitting the oral part; oral part
- Language of instruction
- English
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2005, recent)
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