Curs 2008-2009

Llicenciatura en Traducció i Interpretació

12808 Llengua B (Anglès) III

Objectius

L'objectiu general d'aquesta assignatura és aprofundir en la reflexió sobre l'estructura i funcions lingüístiques de l'anglès, sobretot des de l'òptica de la funció interactiva del llenguatge i en l'àmbit textual que emmarca l'oració.

This course has the following goals: (1) to familiarize students with the various means of expressing modality in English; (2) to make them aware of the principles that organise the flow of information (from sender to receiver) in written and spoken English discourse as well as the resources available (from sentence structure to sentence accent); (3) to make them aware of certain relevant contrastive issues in information flow in English / Catalan / Spanish. Ultimately, all these notions should help students improve their writing and speaking skills.

Continguts

1. The expression of modality

2. Information packaging in English: Basic concepts (given-new information, theme-rheme, weight)

3. Beyond the basic sentence structure: extraposition and discontinuities

4. Beyond the basic sentence structure: passives

5. Beyond the basic sentence structure: there-constructions

6. Beyond the basic sentence strucure: preposing/fronting, presentational constructions

7. Beyond the basic sentence structure: clefts and pseudo-clefts

8. Resources in spoken language. Contrastive aspects between English and Catalan/Spanish

Bibliografia

Biber, Douglas et al. 1999. Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English. Longman.

Downing, Angela and Philip Locke. 2002. A University Course of English Grammar. Harcourt.

Finegan, Edward. 1994. Language: its Structure and Use. Hartcourt Brace and Company. 2nd ed. Chapter 7: Pragmatics: Information Structure, especially “Pragmatic Categories and Syntax”.

Greenbaum, Sidney. 1991. An Introduction to English Grammar. Longman.

Greenbaum, Sidney and Randolph Quirk. 1990. A Student’s Grammar of the English Language. Longman.

Huddleston, Rodney, and Geoffrey K. Pullum. 2002. The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language. Cambridge University Press.

Huddleston, Rodney, and Geoffrey K. Pullum. 2005. A Student's Introduction to English grammar. Cambridge University Press.

Williams, Joseph M. 1990. Style. The University of Chicago Press.