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Topics: Intro
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Introductory session
Read chapter 1 of Mick Short's Exploring the Language of Poems,
Plays and Prose.
If you're interested in the history of stylistics or the concept of
foregrounding (which, as we mentioned previously, is a cornerstone of
stylistic analysis), you might also like to read the introduction and
chapter 2 of J. Douthwaite's (2000) Towards a Linguistic Theory of
Foregrounding (Edizioni dell'Orso: Turin).
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Topic 1
The recommended textbook for this course is:
Short, Mick (1996) Exploring the Language of Poems, Plays and
Prose, London: Longman.
In each topic below we indicate the essential reading in bold type and
add alternatives and other relevant readings (in case you would like to
explore the topic in more detail) in unbold type.
For this topic we'd like you to read:
Short, Mick (1996) Exploring the Language of Poems, Plays and
Prose, London: Longman, chapter 1, pp. 1-35.
In addition, there are the following alternative readings (or extra readings
if you want to read more - we would particularly recommend the chapter
from Simpson's 1997 book):
Carter, Ron (1993) 'Between languages: grammar and lexis in
Thomas Hardy's "The Oxen"', in Peter Verdonk (ed.) (1993)
Twentieth-century Poetry: From Text To Context, London: Routledge,
chapter 5, pp. 57-67.
Leech, Geoffrey N. (1969) A Linguistic Guide to English Poetry,
London: Longman, chapters 1 and 2.
Short, Mick (1993) 'To analyse a poem stylistically: "To
Paint a Water Lily" by Ted Hughes', in Peter Verdonk (ed.) (1993)
Twentieth-century Poetry: From Text To Context, London: Routledge
chapter 1, pp. 5-20.
Simpson, Paul (1997) Language Through Literature, London:
Routledge chapter 2, pp. 23-59.
Verdonk, Peter (1993) 'Poetry and public life: a contextualised
reading of Seamus Heaney's "Punishment"', in Peter Verdonk
(ed.) (1993) Twentieth-century Poetry: From Text To Context,
London: Routledge chapter 9, pp. 112-33.
Widdowson, Henry (1983) 'The Conditional Presence of Mr Bleaney'
in Ronald Carter (ed.) Language and Literature, London: Allen
& Unwin chapter 1, pp. 18-26.
A good dictionary of stylistics which you might like to refer to throughout
the course is:
Wales, Katie (1989) A Dictionary of Stylistics, London:
Longman.
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Topic 2
If you have not yet read it, read chapter 1 of Mick Short's Exploring
the Language of Poems, Plays and Prose. Otherwise, read:
Simpson, Paul (1997) Language Through Literature, chapter
3, or
one or more of the other readings mentioned in the Topic 1 reading list
above.
If you want elementary books to look up things about grammar in, we recommend:
Crystal, David (1988) Rediscover English Grammar, Harmondsworth:
Penguin.
Leech, Geoffrey et al.(1989, 2000) An A-Z of English
Grammar and Usage, London: Longman.
The model of grammar which we are using on the course is derived from:
Leech, Geoffrey Margaret Deuchar and Robert Hoogenraad (1982) English
Grammar for Today, London: Macmillan.
You can also have a look at the
Internet Grammar of English, at University College, London,
and available free to UK universities.
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Topic 3
Mick Short (1996) Exploring the Language of Poems, Plays
and Prose, London: Longman, chapter 2 and/or
G. N. Leech (1969) A Linguistic Guide to English Poetry, London:
Longman, chapter 3.
Alternatives are:
Simpson, Paul (1997) Language Through Literature, London:
Routledge, chapters 2 and 3, or
Verdonk, Peter (2002) Stylistics, Oxford: OUP, chapters
1 and 2.
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Topic 4
To learn in more detail about SPOCA analysis, read carefully through
the SPOCA checksheet which is part of this session and then read chapter
5 ('Clauses': pp. 75-92) of:
Leech, Geoffrey, Margaret Deuchar and Robert Hoogenraad (1982) English
Grammar for Today, London: Macmillan
If you want to read more on a particular grammatical concept, try using
the indexes of the grammar books in the Topic 2 reading or the
Internet Grammar of English, on the University College, London website.
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Topic 5
We would like you to read:
Short, Mick (1996) Exploring the Language of Poems, Plays
and Prose, London: Longman, ch. 3, and/or
Leech (1969) A Linguistic Guide to English Poetry, London:
Longman pp. 9-12 and pp. 49-51.
Other useful readings on sound symbolism and sound patterning are:
Bolinger, Dwight (1980) Language, the Loaded Weapon,
London: Longman chapter 3.
Epstein, Edmund L (1978) Language and Style, London:
Methuen, chapter 3
Knowles, Gerry (1987) Patterns of Spoken English, London:
Longman, pp. 38-42, 60-63, 84-8, 113-4.
Leech, Geoffrey. N. (1969) A Linguistic guide to English
Poetry, London: Longman, chapter 6
Short, Mick, (1996) Exploring the Language of Poems, Plays
and Prose, London: Longman, chapter 4.
Wales, Katie (1990, 2001) A Dictionary of Stylistics,
London: Longman, entries for sound symbolism, onomatopoeia, phonaesthesia
etc.
If you want to brush up on your knowledge of the sounds of English, the
following books are useful:
Rogers, Henry (2000) The Sounds of Language: An Introduction
to Phonetics, London: Longman.
Knowles, Gerry (1987) Patterns of Spoken English, London:
Longman.
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Topic 6
Short, Mick (1996) Exploring the Language of Poems, Plays and
Prose, Longman, chapters 3 (on style variation) and the entries
on Style in The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics and/or
Katie Wales's Dictionary of Stylistics.
And, if you have time, read chapter 11 (on authorial and text style).
(A) Other useful material on language variation:
Leech, Geoffrey, Margaret Deuchar and Robert Hoogenraad (1982)
English Grammar for Today, London: Macmillan, has a chapter on
speech and writing (chapter 8, pp. 133-43) and one on tenor and domain
(chapter 9: 145-57).
Other readable books devoted entirely to language variation are:
Crystal, David and Donald Davy (1969) Investigating English
Style, London: Longman.
Freeborn, Denis (1996) Style: Text Analysis and Linguistic
Criticism, London: Macmillan, chapter 21 (pp. 265-82) is devoted
to news report.
Freeborn, D., P. French and D. Langford (1986) Varieties of
English: An Introduction to the Study of Language, London: Macmillan.
O'Donnell, William and Loretta Todd (1980) Variety in Contemporary
English, London: Unwin.
Routledge's Interface series also contains a set of small books, each
on one particular variety of language (e.g. the language of advertising,
the language of newspapers).
(B) Other useful readings on authorial and text style:
Leech, Geoffrey and Mick Short (1981) Style in Fiction,
London: Longman, chapter 3 and chapter 2.
Routledge's Interface series also contains a set of small books, each
on one particular variety of language (e.g. the language of advertising,
the language of newspapers).
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Topic 7
Read carefully through the checksheet for this topic, and:
Leech, Geoffrey, Margaret Deuchar and Robert Hoogenraad (1982)
English Grammar for Today, London: Macmillan, chapter 6 (which
is on coordination and subordination).
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Topic 8
Short, Mick (1996) Exploring the Language of Poems, Prose and
Plays, London: Longman, chapter 9.
Other useful readings are:
Leech, Geoffrey and Short, Mick (1981) Style in Fiction,
London: Longman, pp. 173-185 and chapter 8;
Fowler, Roger (1986, 1996) Linguistic Criticism, Oxford:
OUP, chapter 9, 'Point of View' (This last chapter is particularly good
on ideological viewpoint).
Simpson, Paul (1993) Language, Ideology and Point of View,
London: Routledge, chapters 1 and 2.
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Topic 9
Read carefully through your Speech Presentation Guidesheet.
Read chapter 10 of Mick Short's (1996) Exploring the Language
of Poems, Prose and Plays, London: Longman.
If you want to read more, try:
Leech, Geoffrey and Short, Mick (1981) Style in Fiction,
London: Longman, pp. 318-336, and/or
Carter, Ron (1982) Language and Literature, London Allen
& Unwin, chapter 5 'Style and Interpretation in Hemingway's "Cat
in the Rain"', pp. 64-80.
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Topic 10
Short, Mick (1996) Exploring the Language of Poems, Prose and
Plays, London: Longman, chapter 11.
If you have time, read chapter 3 of Leech and Short, Style in Fiction,
London: Longman. Concentrate on the analyses of the texts, and compare
them to what we've highlighted when discussing the passage from Jane
Gardam's Bilgewater.
Other readings which you might find useful when preparing for writing
prose stylistics essays are:
Short, Mick (1996) Exploring the Language of Poems, Plays
and Prose, London: Longman, chapter 12.
Leech, Geoffrey and Mick Short (1981) Style in Fiction,
London: Longman, chapter 3.
The latter compares three passages from short stories by three different
authors Joseph Conrad, D. H. Lawrence and Henry James). Interestingly,
another stylistician, Walter Nash, analysed the Lawrence passage (plus
a little bit more) independently and came to very similar analytical conclusions.
If you want to compare the two accounts, Nash's article is:
Nash, Walter (1982) 'On a passage from Lawrence's Odour of
Chrysanthemums'. In Ron Carter (ed.) Language and Literature:
An introductory reader, London Allen & Unwin, pp.101-20.
There is also an article which includes a discussion of the Bilgewater
passage (based on work done when preparing an analysis of the passage
for the Language and Style course):
Short, Mick, Jonathan Culpeper and Elena Semino (2000) 'Language
and context in Jane Gardam's Bilgewater'. In Tony Bex, Michael Burke
and Peter Stockwell (eds) Contextualized Stylistics, Amsterdam:
Rodopi Press, pp.131-51.
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Topic 11
Short, M. (1997) Exploring the Language of Poems, Plays and
Prose, London: Longman, pp. 195-212.
Other useful; readings are:
Culpeper, Jonathan (2001) Language and Characterisation:
People in Plays and Other Texts, London: Longman, pp. 172-80
Bennison, Neil (1998) 'Accessing character through conversation:
Tom Stoppard's Professional Foul' in Jonathan Culpeper, Mick
Short and Peter Verdonk (1998) Exploring the Language of Drama: From
Text to Context, London: Routledge, pp. 67-82.
Lowe, Valerie (1998) '"Unhappy" confessions in The
Crucible: a pragmatic explanation' in Jonathan Culpeper, Mick Short
and Peter Verdonk (1998) Exploring the Language of Drama: From Text
to Context, London: Routledge, pp. 128-41.
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Topic 12
Short, M. (1997) Exploring the Language of Poems, Plays and Prose,
London:Longman, pp. 212-17 and chapter 8.
Other useful readings are:
Simpson, Paul (1997) Language Through Literature, London:
Routledge chapter 5, pp. 23-59.
Bennison, Neil (1998) 'Accessing character through conversation:
Tom Stoppard's Professional Foul' in Jonathan Culpeper, Mick
Short and Peter Verdonk (1998) Exploring the Language of Drama: From
Text to Context, London: Routledge, pp. 67-82.
Cooper, Marilyn (1998) 'Implicature, convention and The Taming
of the Shrew' in Jonathan Culpeper, Mick Short and Peter Verdonk
(1998) Exploring the Language of Drama: From Text to Context,
London: Routledge, pp. 54-66.
Culpeper, Jonathan (1998) '(Im)politeness in dramatic dialogue'
in Jonathan Culpeper, Mick Short and Peter Verdonk (1998) Exploring
the Language of Drama: From Text to Context, London: Routledge,
pp. 83-95.
Culpeper, Jonathan (2001) Language and Characterisation:
People in Plays and Other Texts, London: Longman, chapters 4 and
5.
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Topic 13
Simpson, Paul (1998) 'Odd talk: studying the discourses of incongruity'
in Jonathan Culpeper, Mick Short and Peter Verdonk (1998) Exploring
the Language of Drama: From Text to Context, London: Routledge,
pp. 34-53.
Tan, Peter (1998) 'Advice on doing your stylistics essay on
a dramatic text: an example from Alan Ayckbourn's The Revengers'
Comedies' in Jonathan Culpeper, Mick Short and Peter Verdonk (1998)
Exploring the Language of Drama: From Text to Context, London:
Routledge, pp. 161-71.
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