Course Tittle: STYLISTICS-I
Course Code: ENG 330
Credit Hours: 03
DESCRIPTION & OBJECTIVES
This course introduces the students to the modern concepts of style as distinguished from the traditional one. The course will introduce the notion of style to the student, both in literary and non-literary discourses from a purely linguistic perspective. This also includes a comparison of style in literary and non-literary discourses in the context of genre leading to the identification of different registers.
READINGS
CONTENTS
COURSE SCHEDULE
Week |
Topics and Readings |
1. |
Orientation: Course objectives and contents- What is Style? (Traditional, modern', and linguistic concept of style) What is Stylistics? Branches of Stylistics |
2. |
Levels of Analysis. Description with examples, Phonological Level>Sounds of Poetry> Metre in poetry |
3. |
Syntactical Level. Nouns, Verbs Practice Adjectives, Adverbs etc |
4. |
Phrases, the Clause>Clause Complexing, |
5. |
Mood & Modality |
6. |
Theme and Rheme |
7. |
Transitivity and Meaning/ Analysis |
8. |
Transitivity and Meaning/ Analysis |
9. |
Figurative Language. |
10. |
Foregrounding. |
11. |
Parallelism. Norm & Deviation |
12. |
Point of View. Speech & thought Presentation |
13. |
Discourse Cohesion, Textuality, Clause relations |
14. |
Pragmatic Analysis of Literature Speech Acts |
15. |
Pragmatic Analysis of Literature Deixies, Implicatures |
16. |
Project Submission/Discussion |
RESEARCH PROJECT
A research project comprising 3500-4000 words in the field of the study.
ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
Mid: 30
Sessional: 20
Final exam: 50