The focus is on the formal aspects of (artistic) texts, to include repetition, parallelism, and other patterned deployment of sounds, prosodies, and silences....

How Words Work: Sounds and Sense (SEEE0002)

The focus is on the formal aspects of (artistic) texts, to include repetition, parallelism, and other patterned deployment of sounds, prosodies, and silences. The method is close reading in class of a small number of short texts in their original languages. This kind of reading is achieved by morpheme-by-morpheme glosses and detailed prosodic, metrical, and cultural notes and suggestions for further (especially secondary) reading.

Case Study 1 (Non-intensive Work) (PSYC0204)

This professional programme combines working in a clinical setting, with lectures and seminars to support academic development and the opportunity to complete a doctoral level research project. Teaching is offered in a small-group setting and aims to provide a thorough understanding of normal child development, childhood psychopathology and psychotherapeutic techniques linked with direct experience of clinical work and conducting relevant research. Assessment description: Trainees need to write a paper which describes individual non-intensive clinical work. For further information about the module description contact the programme team.

Pragmatics|public discourse|levels of meaning|context|social indexing

In this module, we consider a growing body of work in linguistics and philosophy of language which is able to apply tools from formal, analytic pragmatics to a...

Pragmatics in a Social Context  (PLIN0017)

In this module, we consider a growing body of work in linguistics and philosophy of language which is able to apply tools from formal, analytic pragmatics to a wider range of real-world phenomena. We will consider how highly developed insights about the nature of context and levels of meaning in formal pragmatics can be used as the basis for accounts of topics drawn from the study of rhetoric and political discourse; formality and politeness; social indexing and identity. Specific topics will be drawn from a selection that includes: slurs and dog whistles, question begging and deniability, the use of honorifics, and the dialectic between broader social/cultural forces and utterance form (social indexing).