The course tackles the advent of the british postmodern novel as another facet of the experimental literature that characterized the literary 50's,60's in  Britain. Several differences are drawn between the American and the British postmodern trends,so the literary productions bear more complicated,philosophical,ethical and ethical interpretations. Authors like William Golding,George Orwell,Iris Murdoch and Salman Rushdie are read through this course.

British Civilisation

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Course description

The main aim of this course is to enable students mastering the fundamental concepts of discourse analysis. The course examines theories and approaches of discourse studies, genres of discourse (media, politics, gender, race, classroom, and child), and important factors linked to discursive production, interpretation and analysis. 

Pre-requisites 

Students are required to acquire knowledge of sub-disciplines of linguistics that are pertaining to this course. 

Topics to be covered in this course include

Theoretical perspectives/ approaches: 

- Cohesion and relevance theory 

- Pragmatics: speech act theory 

- Conversation analysis 

- Discourse and semantics 

- Rhetoric 

- Stylistics 

- Variation analysis 

- Interactional sociolinguistics 

- Critical discourse analysis