Advanced English Linguistics

This course is devoted to studying discourse. It goes beyond the study of traditional aspects of linguistics (phonetics, morphology, lexis, syntax) to embrace large collections of texts (corpora). It is addressed to graduate students, who have some grounding in the basic concepts of linguistics. The course will introduce students to the methodology of corpus linguistics with which different types of discourse in the domain of the arts will be analysed in order to explore the implicit and intricate social and cultural dimensions.

The knowledge and understanding of corpus linguistics and discourse analysis. Applying knowledge and understanding to access a variety of machine readable corpora (Wordbanks Online, British National Corpus, SketchEngine) and to carry out a linguistic analysis on them via the wordlist, keyword list, collocations, and concordances techniques; and to be able to critique different types of discourse from a linguistic point of view in order to reveal hidden and taken-for-granted social and cultural trends.