Course code

EKL6003.HT

old course code

EKL6003

Course title in Estonian

Teksti lingvistiline analüüs

Course title in English

Linguistic Analysis of Texts

ECTS credits

3.0

Assessment form

Examination

lecturer of 2023/2024 Spring semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

lecturer of 2024/2025 Autumn semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

Course aims

Opportunity to acquire knowledge and skills of text-linguistics is given to continue with studies of linguistics, interpreter, language editor, or Estonian teacher training. For students of languages and cultures or advertising and imagology, relevant background is provided for to knowingly analyze texts for academic and other purposes.

Brief description of the course

Active lectures: Language as a system and function. Text and discourse. Text and code. Situational analysis. The seven standards of textuality: cohesion; coherence; intentionality; acceptability; informativity; situationality; intertextuality. Constitutive versus regulative principles: efficiency; effectiveness; appropriateness. Culture-specific features of communicational behaviour and non-verbal codes. Aesthetic and pragmatic orientation of texts. Oral and written texts. Narrative, descriptive, and persuasive text-sorts, or pregenres. Poetry, prose, drama. Situated and embedded genres. Composition and cohesiveness. Ideological analysis. Texts in certain discourse and discourse within a text. Seminars: practical analysis on media, fiction, public service, etc. texts.

Learning outcomes in the course

Upon completing the course the student:
A student
- is able to differentiate between genres, their compositional and linguistic features, norms and individualities;
- is able to interpret ideational and interpersonal meanings, reference and clues, using support of the visual.

Teacher

prof Krista Kerge

Study programmes containing that course

Estonian Philology (EKEB/15.HT)
Liberal Arts in Humanities (KKLHB/15.HT)
Reviewer-Editor (EKRTB/15.HT)
Reviewer-Editor (EKRTB/14.HT)
Estonian Philology (EKEB/14.HT)
Liberal Arts in Humanities (KKLHB/14.HT)
Estonian as a Second Language and Estonian Culture (EKEVB/13.HT)
Estonian Philology (EKEB/13.HT)
Reviewer-Editor (EKRTB/13.HT)
Liberal Arts in Humanities (KKLHB/13.HT)
Liberal Arts in Humanities (KKLHB/12.HT)
Estonian as a Second Language and Estonian Culture (EKEVB/12.HT)
Estonian Philology (EKEB/12.HT)
Liberal Arts in Humanities (KKLHB/12_1.HT)
Reviewer-Editor (EKRTB/12.HT)
Estonian Philology (EKEB/11.HT)
Liberal Arts in Humanities (KKLHB/11.HT)
Estonian Philology (EKEB/10.HT)
Estonian Philology (EKEB/00.HT)