Postgraduate Course: Figurative Language (MSc) (LASC11100)
Course Outline
| School | School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course seeks to develop knowledge of figurative language, particularly as it is manifest in texts of various kinds in the history of English. The course will provide an overview of classical rhetoric, and show how many of the practices identified by early philosophers are characteristic of the language of various types of discourse in the present day. |
| Course description |
The course has a further objective of introducing students to the place of figurativeness - particularly, though not exclusively, the place of metaphor and metonymy - in the field of cognitive linguistics.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2015/16, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Semester 2 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Lecture Hours 44,
Feedback/Feedforward Hours 1,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
151 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
One 4,000 word project on a topic to be decided in consultation with the course organiser.
Assignment Deadline:
Assignment Return Date: |
| Feedback |
One-on-one meetings with students to plan and discuss coursework. Comments provided on submitted assessments |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- identify and classify different kinds of figurative language
- show an understanding of the history of rhetoric
- discuss the place of figurative language in cognitive linguistics
- apply a knowledge of theories of figurativeness to texts of various kinds, particularly (but not exclusively) literary texts
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Reading List
Adamson, S. 1999. Literary language. In R. Lass (ed.) The Cambridge History of the English Language Volume IV, 1476-1776. Cambridge: CUP, 539-63.
Blake, N.F. 1983. Shakespeare¿s Language: An Introduction. Basingstoke: Macmillan.
Booth, W.C. 2004. The Rhetoric of Rhetoric. Oxford: Blackwell.
Burke, K. 1962. A Rhetoric of Motives. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Chilton, P. 2006. Metaphors in political discourse. In K. Brown (ed.), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd edition. Oxford: Pergamon. [See other entries on political language in this encyclopedia too.]
Corbett, E.P.J. and R. J. Connors. 1998. Style and Statement. 4th edition. New York: OUP.
Corbett, E.P.J. and R. J. Connors. 1999. Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student. 4th edition. Oxford: Clarendon.
Ewbank, I-S. 1986. Shakespeare and the arts of language. In S. Wells (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare Studies. Cambridge: CUP, 49-66.
Geeraerts, D. and H. Cuyckens (eds.) 2007. The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics. Oxford: OUP.
Grady, J.E. 2007. Metaphor. In Geeraerts and Cuyckens (eds.), 188-213.
Kermode, F. 2000. Shakespeare¿s Language. New York: Farrar.
Lakoff, G. 1987. Women, Fire and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal about the Mind. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Murphy, J. 1983. Renaissance Eloquence: Studies in the Theory and Practice of Renaissance Rhetoric. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Panther, K-U. and L. Thornberg. 2007. Metonymy. In Geeraerts and Cuyckens (eds.), 236-263.
Partridge, A.C. 1971. The Language of Renaissance Poetry. London: Deutsch
Richards, I.A. 1936. The Philosophy of Rhetoric. New York: OUP.
Sister Miriam Joseph. 2005 [1947]. Shakespeare¿s Use of the Arts of Language. New York: Paul Dry.
Trousdale, M. 1982. Shakespeare and the Rhetoricians. London: Scolar.
Tsakona, V. 2009. Linguistic creativity, secondary orality, and political discourse: the modern Greek myth of the ¿eloquent orator¿. Journal of Modern Greek Studies 27: 81-106.
Turner, M. (ed.) 2006. The Artful Mind: Cognitive Science and the Riddle of Human Creativity. Oxford: OUP.
Turner, M. 2007. Conceptual integration. In Geeraerts and Cucykens (eds.), 377-93.
Vickers, B. 1970. Classical Rhetoric in English Poetry. London: Macmillan.
Vickers, B. 1971. Shakespeare¿s use of rhetoric. In K. Muir and S. Schoenbaum (eds.) A New Companion to Shakespeare Studies. Cambridge: CUP, 83-98. [Reprinted in V. Salmon and E. Burness (eds.) 1987. A Reader in the Language of Shakespearean Drama. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 391-406.]
Vickers, B. 1997. In Defence of Rhetoric. 2nd edition. Oxford: Clarendon.
Wodak, R. 2009. Language and politics. In J. Culpeper, F. Katamba, P. Kerswill, R. Wodak and T. McEnery (eds.), English Language: Description, Variation and Context. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 576-93. |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Additional Class Delivery Information |
Attend all lectures as scheduled |
| Keywords | figurative language,rhetoric |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Graeme Trousdale
Tel: (0131 6)50 3599
Email: |
Course secretary | Miss Toni Noble
Tel: (0131 6)51 3188
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