UCL - Text Linguistics

[ROM2151]

[22.5h] 5 credits

This course is taught in the 2d semester.

Teacher(s): Catherine Bolly(supplée Anne-Catherine Simon), Anne-Catherine Simon

Language: French

Level: Second

Aims
Main themes
Content and teaching methods
Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Aims

At the end of the course, the student is requested to
- Master the concepts of syntax, macro-syntax and discourse analysis;
- Apply models of analysis to fragment of spoken and written speech;
- Interpret functional and literary texts according to theories such as grammaire textuelle

Main themes

Table of contents :
- The notion of sentence (historical and critical approach) and the organization of texts beyond the sentence
- The principles of microsyntax and macrosyntax (dependency grammar, valence and rection, syntactic units)
- The organization of discourse (discourse markers, cohesion and coherence relations)
- Intonation and punctuation as marks of the segmentation of discourse

Content and teaching methods

Content. The focus of this course will be on textual organization of spoken and written texts from the level of micro- and macrosyntax. Special attention will be paid to formal indicators of text segmentation (intonation, punctuation, discourse markers), and to differences in register (spoken vs. written) or in text-type (narratives, academic, drama, face-to-face conversation, etc.).
Methods. The course consists of lectures and exercises.

Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Assessment: Oral examination.
Course materials: PPT, scientific articles, exercices.