Courses

Course title:Text Linguistics
Faculty:Faculty of Arts
Department:Department of English and American Studies
Course code:KAA / 3TEXT
Credits:5
Semester:Winter
Level of study:Mgr.
Format of study:Lecture 1 [Hours/Week], Seminar 1 [Hours/Week]
Name of the lecturer:Mgr. Renáta Tomášková, Dr. (G)
Language:English
ISCED F broad:Arts and humanities
Annotation:The course provides an insight into a range of areas of text linguistic research, which explore the concept of text as a basic unit of communication, the principles of its structuring and the ways it functions in communication, and which factors shape its comprehension and interpretation by an addressee. Students will investigate various approaches towards text analysis, demonstrated through examinations of authentic written as well as spoken discourse in an array of genres and styles.