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Text Linguistics - MA ( forår 2011 - 10 ECTS )

Rammer for udbud

• Uddannelsessprog: engelsk
• Niveau: MA
• Semester/kvarter: 1 semester.
• Timer per uge: 2 every second week.
• Deltagerbegrænsning: None.
• Undervisningssted: Århus
• Hovedområde: Det Humanistiske Fakultet
• Udbud ID: 25461

Formål

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

• is familiar with the general principles for the creation of textual coherence;
• is able to recognise the most common principles for the meaning effects of a sentence in a broader textual context, including the identification of metaphors, figure/ground structures, point of viewand inferences;
• is able to distinguish between the analysis of the linguistic level of a fictional text and a literary analysis proper.

Indhold

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. An important aspect of this is that what is explicitly mentioned in the text is only a small portion of the overall meaning the reader constructs while reading, we will therefore examine some general principles for what is explicitly profiled in the text and what is left for the reader to infer. 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

BA 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

Kandidatuddannelsen i kognitiv semiotik

• Fri.hj.opg.ind., bedømt efter 7-skala med intern censur

Individual written paper, max. 15 pages.