Syllabi LL (All) - KEI

Course Outline
Module 1: The English Clause: syntactic, semantic and message
Functions
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Review – Transitivity
1.2.1 Basic vs. non-basic clause
1.2.2 Problems of multi-word verbs
1.2.3 Clause options
1.3 Semantic functions in the basic clause
1.4 Overview: Message functions
1.4.1 Texture functions
1.4.1.1 Theme
1.4.1.2 End-focus and end-weight
1.4.1.3 Thematic and information devices
1.4.2 The message in context
1.4.2.1 Semantic meaning and utterance meaning
1.4.2.2 Aspects of context: culture, situation and text.
Module 2: Sentence and utterance
2.1 Sentence functions – characteristics use
2.2 Speech acts and speech act types (introduction)
2.3 Contribution of context and intonation to the interpretation
of utterances
2.3.1 For segmenting the message
2.3.2 For highlighting what is new
2.3.3 For distinguishing utterance functions
2.4 Role of context
Module 3: Information Structure and the utterance
3.1 Chunking utterances and texts into intonation groups
3.2 Focus and the intonation group
Module 4: Signalling Information Structure
4.1 The nucleus: phrase, word, syllable
4.2 Signalling the nucleus
Module 5: The Nuclear Tone
5.1 Pitch and tone
5.2 The nuclear tone
5.3 Nuclear tone types
Module 6: Meaning and Intonation
6.1 Tone and meaning
6.2 Functions of intonation in English
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