ENGLISH LANGUAGE III
LINGUA INGLESE III
English syntax and text analysis
English syntax and text analysis
| A.Y. | Credits |
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| 2015/2016 | 8 |
| Lecturer | Office hours for students | |
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| Gloria Cocchi |
Assigned to the Degree Course
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Learning Objectives
The first part of the course will analyse in detail the major syntactic constructions of English (e.g. interrogative, relative, infinitival sentences), with particular attention to the differences which emerge with respect to Italian. The second part of the course will be devoted to text and discourse analysis, and in particular to cohesion and cohesive devices. Crucially, the theoretical tools adopted for syntactic analysis will be applied to the main categories of text analysis.
Program
1. English syntax
1.1 Simple and complex sentences
1.2 Interrogative clauses
1.3 Relative clauses
1.4 Non-finite clauses
1.5 Binding theory
2. Text analysis
2.1 Cohesion
2.2 Connectives
2.3 Apparent syntactic deviations
Teaching Material
The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it
Teaching, Attendance, Course Books and Assessment
- Course books
Cocchi G., An Introduction to English Syntax with applications to text analysis, Edizioni Parnaso, Trieste, 2004.
Salkie, R., Text and Discourse Analysis, Routledge, London and New York, 1995.
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