Syllabus

Textbooks:

  • Biber, Douglas and Susan Conrad. 2009. Register, Genre, and Style. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Ch. 1-6)
  • Paltridge, Brian. 2012. Discourse Analysis. London & New York: Bloomsbury. (Ch. 1-6 and 8-10)

Articles available in Canvas:

  • Leech, Geoffrey. 2007 [1966]. Linguistics and the figures of rhetoric. In G. Leech, 2007, Language in Literature: Style and Foregrounding. London: Longman, 11-27.
  • Semino, Elena. 2011. Deixis and fictional minds. Style 45(3), 428-440.
  • Thornbury, Scott. 2010. What can a corpus tell us about discourse? In A. O’Keefffe & M. McCarthy (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics, 270-287.
  • Toolan, Michael. 1998. Chapter 5, Recording speech and thought. In M. Toolan, Language in Literature: An Introduction to Stylistics. London: Arnold, 105-135.

In addition students must find and read at least two other articles relevant to the topic for their term paper.

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