Literature and Stylistics for Language Learners: Theory and Practice

ISBN-13: 9781349541836 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 217 str.

G. Watson;S. Zyngier

Opis

This volume presents the state of the art in terms of stylistic research and application, including EFL and ESL language classroom situations. Some of the most prominent scholars from a variety of backgrounds in the field of pedagogical stylistics show how theory, empirical studies and new technology, including corpus analysis, can be integrated into the classroom.

Spis treści

Foreword; R.Carter Preface Notes on Contributors PART 1: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES Stylistics in Second Language Contexts: A Critical Perspective; G.Hall On Teaching Literature Itself; P.Stockwell PART 2: NEW APPROACHES When the Students Become the Teachers: A Practical Pedagogy; J.Gavins & J.Hodson "The Shudder of the Dying Day in Every Blade of Grass". Whose Words? Voice, Veracity and the Question of Realism; J.Mcrae Analysing Literature Through Films; R.Montoro Discourse Stylistics and Detective Fiction: A Case Study; U.Clark PART 3: CORPUS STYLISTICS Corpus Stylistics as Discovery Procedure; D.E.Hardy Literary Worlds as Collocation; B.Louw Investigating Student Reactions to a Web-based Stylistics Course in Different National and Educational Settings; M.Short, B.Busse & P.Plummer PART 4: STYLISTICS, GRAMMAR AND DISCOURSE From Syntax to Schema: Teaching Flannery O'Connor in the Persian Gulf; D.L.Gugin Non-Standard Grammar in the Teaching of Language and Style; P.Simpson Language Teaching Through Gricean Glasses; J.Zerkowitz PART 5: AWARENESS AND COGNITION Attention Directed Literary Education: An Empirical Investigation; D.I.Hanauer What Reading Does to Readers. Stereotypes, Foregrounding and Language Learning; W.Van Peer & A.Nousi Revisiting Literary Awareness; S.Zyngier, O.Fialho & P.A.do Prado Rios Index

O autorze

BEATRIX BUSSE teaches English linguistics at the Department of English at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany RONALD CARTER is Professor of Modern English Language, University of Nottingham, UK URSZULA CLARK is Senior Lecturer in English, University of Aston, UK OLÍVIA FIALHO is a PhD Student in Comparative Literature at the University of Alberta, Canada JOANNA GAVINS is Lecturer in English Language and Literature, University of Sheffield, UK DAVID L. GUGIN is Assistant Professor of English, Department of Language and Literature, American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates GEOFF HALL is Senior Lecturer, Centre for Applied Language Studies (CALS), University of Wales Swansea, UK DAVID IAN HANAUER is Associate Professor, Graduate Program of Composition and TESOL, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA DONALD E. HARDY is Professor of Linguistics, University of Nevada, Reno, USA JANE HODSON is a Lecturer in the Department of English, University of Sheffield, UK BILL LOUW is Senior Lecturer in Modern English Language , University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe JOHN MCRAE is Special Professor of Language in Literature Studies, School of English Studies, University of Nottingham, UK ROCÍO MONTORO is Lecturer in English Language, University of Huddersfield, UK AIKATERINI NOUSI is currently teaching German in Greece PATRICIA PLUMMER teaches British and Anglophone Literature and Culture at the Johannes Gutenberg-University in Mainz, Germany PATRÍCIA ANDRÉA DO PRADO RIOS teaches English Language and Literature, Comparative Literature and works in teacher-training courses in Brazil MICK SHORT is Professor of English Language and Literature, Lancaster University, UK PAUL SIMPSON is Professor of English Language, School of English, Queen's University Belfast, UK PETER STOCKWELL is Professor of Literary Linguistics, University of Nottingham, UK WILLIE VAN PEER is Professor of Intercultural Hermeneutics at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Germany JUDIT ZERKOWITZ works at the Department of English Applied Linguistics at the School of English and American Studies, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary