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Code scolarité : LG20FM13
This module offers a choice of 4 courses, each of which studies a different area within the vast field of linguistics. Please bear in mind that as places are limited, you may not obtain your first choice.


Sociolinguistics. M. HIGGS

Broadly speaking, Sociolinguistics is the study of the links between language and society. In this class, which is taught in English, we will begin by defining key terms in sociolinguistics, before going on to look at some varieties of English and their connections with the age, gender, geographical location, and social class of the speaker. We will also examine some recent varieties of English and their evolution. Audio and video documents will be available for study on the Moodle page.


A linguistic approach to humour. M. KOSTANTZER

The objective of this course is to show how linguistics can help analyse humorous effects. The first part of the course will be the occasion to introduce a wide range of theories (from Ansombre, Ducrot, Attardo, Grice, Bakthin, to name a few), which we will then try to put in application via a selection of predominantly literary texts, which will be given in class together with a bibliography.


A linguistic approach of literary discourse analysis. Mme PAULIN

The aim of this course is to relate the analysis of specific linguistic markers to textual analysis. Micro-linguistic analysis will be integrated to macro-analysis and context. Specific points will be developed, among which:
- Foregrounding lexicon and grammar in fiction
- Text as an act of speech
- Language in a fictional communicative context
- Pragmatic readings of texts
- Modality
- Interpersonal relations
- Implicatures
- Inferences: how the reader make inferences, detects assumptions, frames protagonists and narrators’ interactions…

Bibliography

- Levinson, Stephen C, Pragmatics, Oxford, OUP, 1983
- Sorlin, Sandrine, La stylistique anglaise, Théories et pratiques, Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2014

Mme MAECHLING.




 

Compétences visées

  • Comprendre le fonctionnement de la langue dans un contexte de communication.
  • Mettre en œuvre une démarche analytique.
  • Savoir établir des liens entre les observables et le sens.
  • Décloisonner les connaissances et les méthodes.