STYLISTICS

Department of English  & Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Course Information	Course Title	Stylistics
	Course Code	ENG-7021			Course Type			Core (Elective)
	Credit hours	3			Hours per week (C-L)			3
	Programs	MS English (Linguistics)			Preferred Semester			1st
Course Description	The aim of the course is to study the features of distinctive varieties of language and to discover and describe the reasons for particular choices made by individual and social groups in their use of language. Stylistics is a framework for exploring the language of texts. We will explore some of the ways in which linguistic choices can contribute to the ways in which readers understand and interpret texts, and some of the methods that have been developed for exploring the relationship between textual structures and their effects. The course will cover three main areas: the language of poetry, the language of fiction, and the language of non-fiction. We will look at texts from a range of contemporary and historical authors writing for different kinds of readers (for example, part of the course will look at the stylistics of literature for children). The course will draw on and extend students' knowledge of linguistic structure, showing, for example, how linguistic concepts such as tense and modality are important for understanding point of view in literary narratives. In order to contextualize some of the research in the field, we will draw on some principles of cognitive linguistics (for instance, cognitive approaches to metaphor), and quantitative approaches to stylistics (stylometric).
Course Objectives	The objective of this course is to enable students;
	No.	Objective							Relation with Program Objectives
	1.	To define and describe differing literary devices
	2.	To explain why and how literary devices are used in text
	3.	To identify literary devices in text samples
Course Learning Outcomes (CLO)	At the end of this course students will be able to;
	No.	Outcome							Relation with PLO
	1.	Demonstrate an understanding of the principles of stylistics as a discipline
	2.	Demonstrate an understanding of new developments in the field of stylistics, particularly in the quantitative study of textual variation
	3.	Apply knowledge of cognitive linguistic principles to texts
		demonstrate an understanding of some of the linguistic differences between literary and non-literary texts
Lecture type	Classroom Lectures, Presentations, Seminars
Textbook 1	Title			Edition	Authors		Publisher	Year	ISBN
	Style in fiction.				Leech, G. and Short, M.		London: Longman.	1981
Textbook 2	Directions in the Teaching and Study of English Stylistics				Short, M. ed.		Longman	1998
Assessment	Assessment	Weight		Used to attain CLO		Assessment		Weight	Used to attain CLO
Criteria (100%)	Assignment	10%				Quiz		10%
	Book Review	5%				Project / Presentation		10%
	Attendance	0%				Participation		10%
	Mid Term	20%				Final		35%
Methods of Evaluation	Assignments, Quizzes, Presentations, Midterm Exam and Final Term Exam.
Assessment Goal	Assessment		Goal
Achievement	Assignment		To improve students’ writing and understanding.
	Quiz		To improve students’ learning.
	Project/Presentation		To check their understanding of the subject.
	Exam		To evaluate students’ achievements.

Week No.	Lecture No.	Lecture Contents
W1.	L1.	Ø  Stylistics as a branch of linguistics
		Ø  Basic Concepts
		Ø  Definition of Stylistics
		Ø  Purpose of Stylistics
W2.	L2.	Ø  Literary and non-literary stylistics
		Ø  Meta representation, representation of speech and thought, irony
W3.	L3.	Ø  Tools for stylistic analysis
		Ø  Syntactic and lexical parallelism and repetition
W4.	L4.	Ø  Deviation and parallelism
		Ø  Metaphor and other ways of indirect meaning
		Ø  Deviation and Foregrounding
		Ø  Foregrounding and Parallelism
W5.	L5.	Ø  Linguistic/ Semantic Oddities
W6.	L6.	Ø  Style and Register
W7.	L7.	Ø  Conversational style
W8.		Mid Term
W9.	L8.	Ø  Group-specific ways of speaking (real or imagined), as in gendered Stylistics
W10	L9.	Ø  Key terms in Stylistics (Selected Terms Only)
W11	L10.	Ø  Narrative Stylistics
		Ø  Point of View in Fiction
W12	L11.	Ø  Scripted speech
W13	L12.	Ø  Stylistic Analysis of a Variety of Written and Spoken Texts
W14	L13.	Ø  Practical applications of Stylistics
		Ø  Choice and need
W15	L14.	Ø  Literary Devices
		Final Exams