1. Textuality across linguistics and literature
Course introduction

2. Aims of the course
The course focuses on textuality, with special regard for narrative text types, both in literary and non-literary genres.
It aims to provide students with advanced instruments of analysis selected from influential approaches to the study of language and discourse in both oral and written forms
text linguistics, text grammar
corpus linguistics
narrative analysis
Fostering writing and speaking competence at macro and micro level

3. Module A Module B The standards of textuality
Focus on written language
Module B
Narrative text types
Narrative analysis
Storytelling

4. Exam
Module A
The final test consists of written open-ended questions, by means of which students will prove their knowledge of the module contents, as well as linguistic and discursive competence within the field of the humanities. Students attending the course can take this part of the exam during the course.
Students who do not attend the lessons will sit this part of the exam during official examination dates.
Modulo B
Oral presentation ( 5-7 minutes), with slideware support, on a topic related to the contents of the module, followed by a brief discussion. In the latter part, questions can be addressed on any content dealt with during the module.
Common to both modules
Students attending the course will lead a group seminar, involving the class in a discussion on a topic of their choice, on the basis of one of the analytic approaches presented in either module A or B.
Students who do not attend the lessons will replace the seminar with a written project, to be handed in two weeks before the oral, focussed on one of the perspectives presented during the course.

5. Readings module A
de Beaugrande, R./ Dressler, W [2002] Introduction to text linguistics. London and New York: Longman.
Mahlberg, M The Corpus Stylistic analysis of fiction – Or the fiction of corpus stylistics?. In Language and Computers, Corpus Linguistics and Variation in English: Theory and Description. Edited by Joybrato Mukherjee and Magnus Huber , pp (19). Rodopi.
Kane, T. S. 1994/1988. The New Oxford Guide to Writing. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (selected pages)
McCarthy, M. /O’Dell, F Academic vocabulary in use (selected pages), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

6. Readings module B
Norrick. N Conversational narrative. Storytelling in everyday talk. Amsterdam: John Benjamins
Simpson, P Stylistics. A resource book for students. London and New York: Routledge.
Toolan, M Narrative: linguistic and structural theories. Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (secon edition),

7. Textuality across linguistics and literature
emergence in the 1960s of English Language as a university subject in its own right,
the relationship between the study of literature and the study of language has often been one of bitter rivalry.
‘cold’, ‘scientific’ approach (linguists) vs too vague and subjective analyses (literates)
Bateson vs Fowler (“would you allow your sister to marry a linguist?”)

8. Points of contact
Stylistic: how linguistic form relates to literary effect.
Translation studies
Corpora (corpus stylistics) …

10. Text or non-text? Cohesion/coherence Intentionality/Acceptability
Informativity
Intertextuality

11. 63 (E. E. Cummings, 73 Poems)

12. Lexical features
form
foregrounding in the final stanza of ‘(listen)’.
This is what Leech (1969) describes as ‘congruence’ of foregrounding, which is where we get lots of different types of foregrounding occurring at once
Informativity: the less expected, the more informative

13. Language focus Rivalry /ˈraɪ.vəl.ri/ Stir /stɜːr/ Writh /raɪð/
[T] If something stirs you, it makes you feel a strong emotion: I was deeply stirred by her performance.
[+ obj + to infinitive ] The speech stirred the crowd to take action
[I] literary If an emotion stirs within you, you begin to feel it: Hope stirred within her heart
[I] UK informal disapproving to cause trouble intentionally between other people, especially by telling false or secret information: There's a lot of gossip about me going around. Have you been stirring?
Writh /raɪð/
to make large twisting movements with the body:
informal to experience a very difficult or unpleasant situation or emotion, such as extreme embarrassment: He and four other senators were writhing in the glare of unfavorable publicity.

14. References
Dan McIntyre, Linguistics and literature: stylistics as a tool for the literary critic, SRC Working Papers