Textual Analysis
English · 3 hrs Lecture
Offered: Fall Or Winter, Every Year
ENGL-3800 prerequisites
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Description
This course examines the principles and methods of textual analysis as a language-centered approach to literary and non-literary discourse. Various texts are analyzed using six descriptive linguistic tools, namely sounding (phonology), seeing (graphology), wording (lexis), arranging (syntax), meaning (semology and semantics), and ornamenting (rhetoric). Textual analysis considers the effect of writers' choices to create different reader responses to literary elements such as developing characters, building suspense, creating humour, and achieving particular rhetorical purposes.
Requisite courses
6 credit hours of First-Year English or permission of the Department Chair [prerequisite(s)].
Restrictions
Students may not hold credit for this course and ANTH-3405 | LING-3001.
Cross-listed
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