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This course enables students to apply skills of close linguistic analysis to a range of literary texts and genres. Students will explore the ways that different aspects of linguistic structure shape and contribute to readers' interpretations. The core structural elements of phonology, morphology and syntax will be covered; each week, students will discuss a particular text, putting into practice skills of stylistic analysis. We will cover both canonical ‘Literary’ texts and other forms of writing.
| Study Type | Undergraduate | Level | 4 |
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| Term | Second Term | Credit Points | 30 credits (15 ECTS credits) |
| Campus | Aberdeen | Sustained Study | No |
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The study of Linguistics often focuses on spoken or spontaneous language, or on specific forms of institutional discourse, such as the language used in educational contexts or other professional contexts. However, given that we are surrounded by literary texts, from novels to poetry and drama, it is both interesting and useful to apply precise linguistic analytical approaches to texts from a range of literary genres.
This course will look at how language structure can be used to shape meaning, considering patterns in the phonology, morphology and syntax of texts, and the ways in which these condition readers' interpretations of texts. The course will have three aspects:
1. The methods and theories of stylistics will be introduced, from dialogue to discourse and from metre to metaphor;
2. Students will read classic and contemporary essays from the field of stylistics;
3. Each week, students will discuss a particular literary text, putting into practice the skills of stylistic analysis gained on the course up
to that point.
Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 30 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | 34 | Feedback Weeks | 37 | |
| Feedback |
1000- 1500 words Feedback will be provided by tutors in written form through the online coursework submission platform Turnitin. |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Procedural | Analyse | Have developed a set of stylistic analytical ‘tools’ to enable them to identify and analyse the use of linguistic structure in a variety of texts. |
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 10 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | 33 | Feedback Weeks | 36 | |
| Feedback |
500- 750 words Feedback will be provided by tutors in written form through the online coursework submission platform Turnitin. |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Conceptual | Understand | Have a wide-ranging general understanding of way linguistic structure shapes possible readings of a text. |
| Conceptual | Understand | Have knowledge of specific linguistic techniques and their effects. |
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 10 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | 26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36 | Feedback Weeks | 39 | |
| Feedback |
Students will be provided with a comment through the Blackboard platform, as well as oral feedback from the tutor throughout the course if desired. |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Conceptual | Understand | Have a wide-ranging general understanding of way linguistic structure shapes possible readings of a text. |
| Conceptual | Understand | Have knowledge of specific linguistic techniques and their effects. |
| Procedural | Analyse | Have developed a set of stylistic analytical ‘tools’ to enable them to identify and analyse the use of linguistic structure in a variety of texts. |
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 50 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | Feedback Weeks | |||
| Feedback |
Essay to be submitted at end of teaching. Feedback will be provided by tutors in written form through the online coursework submission platform Turnitin. - Within 3 weeks of submission. |
Word Count | 2500 | |
| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| Conceptual | Understand | Have knowledge of specific linguistic techniques and their effects. |
| Conceptual | Understand | Have a wide-ranging general understanding of way linguistic structure shapes possible readings of a text. |
| Procedural | Analyse | Have developed a set of stylistic analytical ‘tools’ to enable them to identify and analyse the use of linguistic structure in a variety of texts. |
There are no assessments for this course.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 100 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | Feedback Weeks | |||
| Feedback |
Feedback will be provided by tutors in written form through the online coursework submission platform Turnitin. |
Word Count | 2500 | |
| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| Conceptual | Understand | Have a wide-ranging general understanding of way linguistic structure shapes possible readings of a text. |
| Conceptual | Understand | Have knowledge of specific linguistic techniques and their effects. |
| Procedural | Analyse | Have developed a set of stylistic analytical ‘tools’ to enable them to identify and analyse the use of linguistic structure in a variety of texts. |
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