COURSE UNIT TITLE

: TEXTUAL ANALYSIS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
IMT 1115 TEXTUAL ANALYSIS ELECTIVE 3 0 0 4

Offered By

Department of Translation and Interpreting Studies (English)

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

Offered to

Department of Translation and Interpreting Studies (English)
English Translation and Interpreting

Course Objective

The aim of this course is to identify written and verbal text types, text interpretation, different voices in a text, and intertextuality. Other aims include realization of the meaning by choosing a specific pattern in clauses from a gamut of alternatives and identification of discourse characteristics in various sociologic actions, understanding the importance of choices in modality and indirect speech and being able to discuss their impact on textual interpretation.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Understand and analyze grammatical, lexical, semtential, and textual structures in source and target languages and to be able to produce texts in both.
2   Acquire advanced speaking and writing skills in English
3   Interpret written and verbal products of source language and culture system and compare them with the products of target language
4   Learn working individually and in a group
5   Acquire life-long learning skill.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Learning the text-types. Argument, description and narrative
2 Showing the different text types with examples
3 Definition of plot- Closed and Open plots
4 Discussing open-closed plots on texts
5 Theme and Ideology : The Invisibility of ideology
6 Discussing the ideology on an example text
7 Mid-term
8 Undermining Conventions in some experimental fiction
9 Point of view; Filter in Internal Narration
10 Experimenting filter on example texts
11 Modality and its importance in creating meaning
12 Experimenting with texts written in different modality
13 Dialogue in texts
14 Experimenting different speech and thought presentations on example texts

Recomended or Required Reading

Reading Narrative Fiction by Seymour Chatman 1993 Mac.Millan Publishing Company:New York
Textual Analysis: A Beginner s Guide by Alan McKee 2003 Sage Publications: London, California
Analysing Discourse: A Textual Analysis for Social Research by Norman Fairclough Routledge: London.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Face-to-face and interactive courses. Critical reading and thinking skills will be enhanced. Dynamic, critical and effective reading will be promoted.

Assessment Methods

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


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Assessment will be based on assignments (20%) , participation and attendance(20%), mid-term (20%), a and final exam (40%).

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

Attendance is obligatory.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 2 26
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Preparing assignments 1 16 16
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 103

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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