Guia Academica - Facultad de Filología - Universidad de Salamanca

GUÍA ACADÉMICA 2009-2010 FACULTAD DE FILOLOGÍA 400
UNIVERSIDAD DE SALAMANCA
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14965-ANÁLISIS LINGÜÍSTICO DIACRÓNICO DE TEXTOS LITERARIOS INGLESES
Asignatura Optativa. Segundo Semestre. 6 créditos
Profa. Pilar Sánchez García
GENERAL INTRODUCTION AND AIMS
AIMS OF THE COURSE
The course is designed for students interested in the varieties of English reflected in English literature. Though it is not compulsory it would be
quite helpful to get a greater profit of this subject to have a basic knowledge of English dialects, which students can obtain from DIALECTOLOGÍA
EN LENGUA INGLESA (Optativa, 1er semestre).
The aim of the course is to provide students a general view of the different uses of dialects in English literature from its beginning till today as
well as to supply them with the tools necessary for the analysis and understanding of dialectal literary texts.
COURSEWORK
The approach of the course is both theoretical and practical. Theoretical classes will be devoted to the study of dialectal characteristics and
the methods for their analysis. The practical approach will consist of linguistic analysis of literary texts belonging to different periods.
EVALUATION
There will be a final written exam (june) which will consists of the following parts:
– a theoretical paper on any aspect of the subject studied in the course (50%).
– a practical paper consisting of linguistic analysis of literary texts (50%).
OUTLINE OF PROGRAMME
THEORICAL.
Unit 1. Introduction to diachronic linguistic analysis of texts.
Unit 2. Methods for the linguistic analysis of literary texts: spelling characteristics.
Unit 3. Methods for the linguistic analysis of literary texts: morphological characteristics.
Unit 4. Methods for the linguistic analysis of literary texts: syntactical characteristics.
Unit 5. Methods for the linguistic analysis of literary texts: lexical characteristics.
Unit 6. Reading Old English manuscripts.
6.1. The OE alphabet.
6.2. Abbreviations.
6.3. Punctuation and capitalization.
6.4. Word- and line-division.