COURSE UNIT TITLE

: TEXTLINGUISTICS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
DIL 5101 TEXTLINGUISTICS ELECTIVE 3 0 0 8

Offered By

General Linguistics

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR KAMIL IŞERI

Offered to

General Linguistics

Course Objective

To teach the criteria of textuality, text production process, communication scheme and the syntactic parts of the texts which are the main ingredient in human communication.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To internalise the concept of text
2   Understand the relationship between linguistics and textlinguistics
3   Understand the stages of rhetoric
4   Explain the communication scheme and dominant item/unit
5   Understand the criteria of textuality
6   Understand the ctages of text production
7   Understand the text types

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 The main and sub-fields of Linguistics and its relation to other disciplines
2 The description of the term "text". The relationship between the text and Linguistics. The field of textlinguistics
3 Comprehension of text as the main component of communication and the utterance as the main component of the text. Utterance and discourse.
4 History of textlinguistics and the milestone researchers of textlinguistics
5 The rhetoric theories and their applications.
6 The communication scheme of Jacobson and the functions of language
7 The criteria of textuality by Beaugrande ve Dressler
8 Midterm
9 The text production stages by Beaugrande ve Dressler
10 Types of texts/text types and tonesTypes of texts/text types and tones
11 Examples and applications about text types
12 Examination of the sample text about their representation adequacy on their text type
13 Examination of the sample text about their representation adequacy on their text type
14 General Overview

Recomended or Required Reading

1. Adam, J, M. (1999). Lingusitique Textuelle. Paris: Edition Nathan.
2. Bloor, T. ve Bloor, M. (2004). The Functional Analysis of English of English. New York: Oxford University Press.
3. De Beaugrande R. (1981). Text Production.Ablex Publlishing Corporation.
4. De Beaugrande R. & Dressler, W. U. (1981) Introduction to Text Linguistics. London:
Longman.
5. Dilidüzgün, Ş. (2017). Metindilbilim ve Türkçe Öğretimi, Uygulamalı Bir Yaklaşım. Ankara: Anı Yayıncılık.
6. Douglas, B. (1989). A Typlology of English Texts. Linguistics, 27,3-43.
7. Günay, V. D. (2007) Metin Bilgisi. Istanbul: Multilingual.
8. Halliday, M: A:K., Hasan, R. (1976).Cohesion in English. London: Longman.
9. Işeri, K. (2018). Sözden Yazıya Dile Gelen Metin. Ankara: Pegem Akademi.
10. Rifat, M. (2007) Metnin Sesi. Istanbul: Türkiye Iş Bankası Kültür Yayınları.
11. Torusdağ, G. ve Aydın I. (2017). Metindilbilim ve Örnek Çözümlemeleri. Ankara: Pegem Akademi.
12. Searle, J. R. (2000). Söz Edimleri. Ankara: Ayraç Yayınevi.
13. Şenöz Ayata, C. (2014). Bilimsel Metin Üretimi. Istanbul: Papatya Yayıncılık.
14. Uzun, L. ve Huber, E. (2002). Türkeçede Bilgi Yapısı ve Bilmsel Metinler. Essen: Verlag Die BlaueEule.
15. Uzun, L. (1995). Orhon Yazıtlarının Metindilbilimsel Yapısı. Ankara: Simurg.
16. Yılmaz, E. (2010). Uygulamalı Metin Bilgisi. Ankara: Pegem Akademi.
17. Widdowson, H. G. (2004). Text, Context, Pretext. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture
Question-Answer
Presentation

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + FCG* 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST* 0.60


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria


LO 1-7: Will be evaluated with the help of the articles which are going to be prepared for midterm and final exams.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

1. Attendance to the 70% of the courses is compulsory.
2. Attendance to the midterm, assignments and final exams will be taken into consideration in evaluation
3. Cheating and Plagiarism attempts in midterm, assignments and final exams will be graded as "0" (zero).

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Faculty of Letter
B461.1

Office Hours

Monday 09:00-10:00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 3 42
Preparation for midterm exam 1 20 20
Preparation for final exam 1 30 30
Preparing presentations 1 25 25
Preparing assignments 2 20 40
Final 1 3 3
Midterm 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 205

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6
LO.15
LO.25
LO.35
LO.45
LO.55
LO.65
LO.75

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