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LN4524: STYLISTICS (2022-2023)

Last modified: 31 Jul 2023 11:19


Course Overview

This course enables students to apply skills of close linguistic analysis to a range of literary texts and genres. Students will explore the ways that different aspects of linguistic structure shape and contribute to readers' interpretations. The core structural elements of phonology, morphology and syntax will be covered; each week, students will discuss a particular text, putting into practice skills of stylistic analysis. We will cover both canonical ‘Literary’ texts and other forms of writing.

Course Details

Study Type Undergraduate Level 4
Term Second Term Credit Points 30 credits (15 ECTS credits)
Campus Aberdeen Sustained Study No
Co-ordinators
  • Dr William S. Barras

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

Are there a limited number of places available?

No

Course Description

The study of Linguistics often focuses on spoken or spontaneous language, or on specific forms of institutional discourse, such as the language used in educational contexts or other professional contexts. However, given that we are surrounded by literary texts, from novels to poetry and drama, it is both interesting and useful to apply precise linguistic analytical approaches to texts from a range of literary genres.

This course will look at how language structure can be used to shape meaning, considering patterns in the phonology, morphology and syntax of texts, and the ways in which these condition readers' interpretations of texts. The course will have three aspects:

1. The methods and theories of stylistics will be introduced, from dialogue to discourse and from metre to metaphor;

2. Students will read classic and contemporary essays from the field of stylistics;

3. Each week, students will discuss a particular literary text, putting into practice the skills of stylistic analysis gained on the course up

    to that point.


Contact Teaching Time

Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.

Teaching Breakdown

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Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 30 August 2024 for 1st term courses and 20 December 2024 for 2nd term courses.

Summative Assessments

Textual Analysis

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 30
Assessment Weeks 34 Feedback Weeks 37

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Feedback

1000- 1500 words

Feedback will be provided by tutors in written form through the online coursework submission platform Turnitin.

Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ProceduralAnalyseHave developed a set of stylistic analytical ‘tools’ to enable them to identify and analyse the use of linguistic structure in a variety of texts.

Reflective journal entry

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 10
Assessment Weeks 33 Feedback Weeks 36

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Feedback

500- 750 words

Feedback will be provided by tutors in written form through the online coursework submission platform Turnitin.

Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ConceptualUnderstandHave a wide-ranging general understanding of way linguistic structure shapes possible readings of a text.
ConceptualUnderstandHave knowledge of specific linguistic techniques and their effects.

Tutorial/Seminar Participation

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 10
Assessment Weeks 26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36 Feedback Weeks 39

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Feedback

Students will be provided with a comment through the Blackboard platform, as well as oral feedback from the tutor throughout the course if desired.

Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ConceptualUnderstandHave a wide-ranging general understanding of way linguistic structure shapes possible readings of a text.
ConceptualUnderstandHave knowledge of specific linguistic techniques and their effects.
ProceduralAnalyseHave developed a set of stylistic analytical ‘tools’ to enable them to identify and analyse the use of linguistic structure in a variety of texts.

Essay

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 50
Assessment Weeks Feedback Weeks

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Essay to be submitted at end of teaching.

Feedback will be provided by tutors in written form through the online coursework submission platform Turnitin. - Within 3 weeks of submission.

Word Count 2500
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ConceptualUnderstandHave knowledge of specific linguistic techniques and their effects.
ConceptualUnderstandHave a wide-ranging general understanding of way linguistic structure shapes possible readings of a text.
ProceduralAnalyseHave developed a set of stylistic analytical ‘tools’ to enable them to identify and analyse the use of linguistic structure in a variety of texts.

Formative Assessment

There are no assessments for this course.

Resit Assessments

Essay

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 100
Assessment Weeks Feedback Weeks

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Word Count 2500
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
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Course Learning Outcomes

Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ConceptualUnderstandHave a wide-ranging general understanding of way linguistic structure shapes possible readings of a text.
ConceptualUnderstandHave knowledge of specific linguistic techniques and their effects.
ProceduralAnalyseHave developed a set of stylistic analytical ‘tools’ to enable them to identify and analyse the use of linguistic structure in a variety of texts.

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