University of Huddersfield - Stylistics: Using Linguistics to Explore Texts and Meaning
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Stylistics: Using Linguistics to Explore Texts and Meaning
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Duration | 4 weeks |
Total fee | ₹2,763 |
Mode of learning | Online |
Credential | Certificate |
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Stylistics: Using Linguistics to Explore Texts and Meaning
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Stylistics: Using Linguistics to Explore Texts and Meaning at FutureLearn Course details
Stylistics: Using Linguistics to Explore Texts and Meaning
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More about this course
- Develop your critical reading ability
- Able to analyse and interpret the daily messages you receive from every sphere of your life
- Identify stylistic devices, understand how language choices attract our attention, and compare the speech patterns of different people
- How to perform corpus stylistics, using simple computer analysis of textual patterns and interpreting their relation to a speaker or writer's style and effect
Stylistics: Using Linguistics to Explore Texts and Meaning at FutureLearn Curriculum
Stylistics: Using Linguistics to Explore Texts and Meaning
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Foregrounding
Welcome to the course!
Style and meaning
Foregrounding in language
The effects of foregrounding
Weekly round-up
Characterisation
Where do characters come from?
Characterisation in the mind
Characterisation in dialogue
Characterisation through subtitles
Weekly round-up
Speech presentation
Quoting other people's words
A model of speech presentation
The power of quotation
What we hear and what we believe
Weekly roundup
Corpus stylistics
Samples, frequencies and concordances
What is keyness analysis and how do we use it in stylistics?
Introducing N-grams and clusters
Collocation: how words congregate with each other
Weekly round-up
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