Aims and Fit of Module

•	To increase students’ awareness of how language works in texts, particularly in prose fiction and drama;

•	To provide students with an understanding of the principles of literary linguistic analysis and theory;

•	To develop students’ ability to recognize the relationship between linguistic form and inferred meanings; 

•	To enable students to analyse the language of prose fiction and drama and explain how meanings are constructed;

•	To demonstrate the use of corpus linguistics tools  for the analysis of prose fiction and drama.

Learning outcomes

At the conclusion of this module, students should be able to:

A.	respond to  and analyse prose fiction and drama using linguistic concepts;

B.	identify and consider how meanings and effects are created and conveyed in prose fiction and drama;

C.	select approaches to literary linguistic analysis which are most appropriate for the analysis of particular texts;

D.	use adequate metalanguage to carry out a linguistic stylistic analysis of prose fiction and drama;

E.	relate the findings of linguistic analysis to a possible interpretation of these texts;

F.	identify patterns of thought and speech presentation in prose fiction and drama; 

G.	focus on some of the basic mechanisms of conversation to understand dramatic dialogue;

H.	undertake corpus stylistics analysis by successfully using software for the identification textual features.

Method of teaching and learning

The teaching component will be divided into lectures and tutorials.