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Text Analysis - BA ( forår 2011 - 15 ECTS )

Rammer for udbud

• Uddannelsessprog: engelsk
• Niveau: BA
• Semester/kvarter: 1 semester
• Timer per uge: 2 every second week
• Deltagerbegrænsning: None
• Undervisningssted: Århus
• Hovedområde: Det Humanistiske Fakultet
• Udbud ID: 25465

Formål

In the evaluation of the student's exam performance, special emphasis is placed on evaluating the extent to which the student:

• Can use the key cognitive theories and concepts on a meaning expression.
• Can document an ability to define relevant significance elements in both pictures and texts.
• Can document an ability to compare and contrast cultural meaning phenomena.
• Can document independent production ability.

Indhold

NB! The courses Aesthetic Cognition and Text Analysis in combination give 15 ECTS.

In this course we are applying the principles from cognitive linguistics on text analysis. We will study how metaphors, word meaning, figure/ground structure and deixis/viewpoint are used to achieve specific effects in the reader. We will also treat the different coherence principles for textual meaning. In regard to this we will examine some general principles for what is explicitly profiled in the text and what is left for the reader to infer, thereby touching upon Grice's principles, presuppositions, implicatures and window of attention. Furthermore, we will study the sentence structure from the point of view of construction grammar, and get an understanding of how dynamic relations are described in a fictive text and how the different dynamic schemas combined to yield a coherent understanding of a narrative text.

Faglige forudsætninger

2 years study in a discipline of the Humanities

Underviser

Svend Østergaard

Undervisnings- og arbejdsform

Classroom teaching

Litteratur

L. Talmy: Toward a Cognitive Semantics , the folowing chapters:

In Vol 1: "The relation of grammar to cognition", "Fictive motion in language and "ception"", "How language structures space", "The windowing of attention in language", "Figure and Ground in language", and "The semantics of causation". In vol II "A cognitive framework for narrative structure"

A. Banfield: Where Epistemology, Style, and Grammar Meet Literary History

K. Tylén: Fortælling og bevidsthed. Udkast til en kognitiv fundering af narratologien (available on the semiotic homepage)

L. Brandt: Explosive Blends, Also available on the semiotic homepage

P. Stockwell (ed.): Cognitive Poetics

W. Chafe: "Some Things that Narratives Tell Us About The Mind." In Narrative Thought and Narrative Language. placeCityLondon 1990

W. Van Peer & E. Graf: "Between the Lines." In Cognitive Stylistics. Language and cognition in text analysis . Amsterdam 2002

Studieordning og bedømmelse

Suppleringsfaget i kognitiv semiotik

• Mundtlig, bedømt efter 7-skala med ekstern censur

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