This module foregrounds the relationship between language and literary and non-literary texts, and considers language use from particular perspectives....

This module foregrounds the relationship between language and literary and non-literary texts, and considers language use from particular perspectives. Students will be encouraged to think about the difference between written and spoken language in a detailed and systematic way, and to analyse different text types from a linguistic perspective, paying attention to grammatical, lexical and phonological features.

The first part of the module will introduce students to approaches from within stylistics and discourse analysis, and will examine the ways in which specific linguistic choices create variations in style and meaning. The questions of what makes a text, and what makes a text ‘cohesive’, will be explored, and the language associated with different discourse types such as politics, advertising and humour, will be examined. The module will go on to explore the way in which linguistic choices can be evaluated from different theoretical positions. Topics will include Critical Discourse Analysis, Raymond Williams’ Keywords, Marxist and feminist perspectives on language, and intertextuality.

DEVELOP AND CRITIQUE LEARNING AND PRACTICE IN OWN PROFESSIONAL CONTEXT

This module provides participants with an opportunity to develop their learning and understanding of a wide variety of professional contexts. Through working...

This module provides participants with an opportunity to develop their learning and understanding of a wide variety of professional contexts. Through working collaboratively with fellow participants, students develop their own small-scale piece of research that explores challenges and/or areas of interest in professional education and training. This includes professional learning in diverse work-based environments as well as within further and higher education and also, for example, the challenges of new technologies and globalisation. Students undertaking this module with either be in employment or will have an interest in an area of work, which could be anything from accounting to engineering or education.