English 5

Recommended Prerequisites

English 1, 2, 3 and 4.

Teaching Methods

Practical classes based on discussion of texts and the presentation of both written and oral work produced by students.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of the semester, students should be able to
1. demonstrate good control of standard grammar
2. demonstrate an ability to read, write and deliver orally rhetorical texts
3. demonstrate an ability to understand stylistic choices.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

This course sets out to study language not as a means of communicating observations about the world, but rather as a means of constructing what we see and getting others to see it too. How does language generate actions and attitudes?

Both classical and contemporary rhetoric are central.  Texts are read  dramatistically, always with a focus on prose style. In other words, what do texts try to get us to believe or do?

Grammar is revised according to students’ needs.

Head Lecturer(s)

Phillippa May Bennett

Assessment Methods

Final evaluation
Exam: 100.0%

Continuous evaluation
Other: 25.0%
Mini Tests: 25.0%
Frequency: 50.0%

Bibliography

Crystal, David & Hilary Crystal (Eds.). (2000) Words on Words. Chicago: U of Chicago Press.

Humphrey, Nicholas & Lifton, Robert Jay (Eds.). (1984). In a Dark Time. London: Faber and Faber.

Schulz, Muriel R. The Semantic Derogation of Woman. (2001). In Lucy Burke et al (Eds.), The Routledge Language and Cultural Theory Reader. London: Routledge.

Shakespeare, William. Julius Caesar, III, ii.

Burke, Kenneth. (1989). On Symbols and Society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Lanham, Richard A. (1974) Style: an Anti-Textbook. New Haven: Yale University Press.