Introduction and Objectives:

This course introduces the students to the concepts of register and genre in Stylistics. The students will be acquainted with different levels at which a text can be analyzed to determine its style. By knowing how language is structured at different levels, the students will be able to identify different choices made by the writer of a particular text which define his/her individual style. Similarly, knowing particular features of different language varieties will also make the students to correctly determine the genre and register of the text they are analyzing.

Course Contents:
Concepts of Register
· Concept of Genre
· Levels of Analysis
· Phonology
· Graphology
· Lexis
· Grammar
· Discourse
· Language of Advertisement
· Language of Recipes
· Language of Legal Documents
· Language of Religion
· Language of Conversation
· Language of Unscripted of Commentary
· Language of Newspaper Reporting
· Difference between Literary and non-literary Text

Course Material:

Textbooks (provided in soft form, printable)

Relevant Research Papers and Notes (provided in soft form, printable)

Class Timings (Spring 2020)

BS VI (R) Wednesday   11:00-02:00  pm

BS VI (S.S) Tuesday      11:00-02:00 pm

Assesment:

• Mid Term: 30
• Sessional: 20
• Final Exam:50