Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Stylistics: Using Linguistics to Explore Texts and Meaning
Stylistics is the study of linguistic style in texts. It empowers students to become critical readers by developing rigorous techniques of linguistic analysis. The course explores the effects of language choice in different contexts, from fictional narratives and films to advertising and politics. Topics studied on the course include foregrounding, speech presentation, characterisation and corpus stylistics. By the end of the course, students are able to perform stylistic analyses independently.
4 weeks, 4 hours per week
Prof. Monty Adkins
Dean of the Graduate School
University of Huddersfield
Prof. Dan McIntyre
Professor of Linguistics
University of Huddersfield
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Describe what is meant by the term stylistics
- Identify foregrounding and explain how language choices attract our attention
- Explain the role of language in the process of characterisation
- Compare different ways of presenting the speech of other people and the potential effects associated with these techniques
- Perform simple computer analysis of textual patterns and understand their relation to style
Syllabus
- What is linguistic style and why is it important?
- Foregrounding: How does language attract our attention?
- Characterisation: What role does language play in creating our impressions of characters?
- Speech presentation: What happens when we quote (or misquote) other people?
- Corpus stylistics: How can computers aid our study of linguistic style?
Issued on 20th October 2021
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