Interletral, L'apprentissage interactif de la linguistique et de la littérature
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Introduction to

linguistics and discourse analysis

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literary analysis

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the history of literature

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1
Introduction to

linguistics and discourse analysis

Full journey
≃ 2h10
1.1. Signs and languages
  1. 1.1.1. Signs, language systems (langages) and languages (langues). The linguistic sign. Saussure’s theory
  2. 1.1.2. Types of signs: Charles Sanders Peirce
  3. 1.1.3. Peirce and his triadic model: the representamen, the object, the interpretant
  4. 1.1. Jorge Luis Borges, "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius", final excerpt (an example illustrating the idea that language creates or shapes reality).
1.2. Communication: From Sign to Discourse
  1. 1.2.1. Communication model. Functions of Language
  2. 1.2.2. Verbal and non-verbal communication. The Double Articulation of Language
  3. 1.2.3. Language and speech, language and discourse
  4. 1.2. W. Somerset Maugham, "The Appointment in Samarra", 1933 (an example illustrating communication and the interpretation of signs).
1.3. Discursive Typologies
  1. 1.3.1. The main types of discourse
  2. 1.3.2. Discursive genres
  3. 1.3.3. Raymond Queneau, <em>Exercises in Style</em>, 1947 (an example illustrating discursive typologies and the transformation of the same narrative).
1.4. Discourse and subjectivity
  1. 1.4.1. Enunciation, deixis, modalization
  2. 1.4.2. Registers and tones
  3. 1.4.3. Discourse and history, commented world and narrated world
  4. 1.4. Voltaire, <em>The Huron: L'Ingénu</em>, 1767, excerpt from the final chapter (an example illustrating discourse and subjectivity in the representation of emotions).
1.5. The voices of the text
  1. 1.5.1. Dialogue, dialogism and polyphony
  2. 1.5.2. Direct, indirect, free indirect and narrated speech
  3. 1.5.3. Other forms of including another’s speech: irony, concession and negation
  4. 1.5. Juan Rulfo, "Tell Them Not to Kill Me!", <em>The Burning Plain</em>, 1953 (an example illustrating the voices of the text and narrative polyphony).
1.6. Notions of semantics and pragmatics
  1. 1.6.1. Denotation and connotation
  2. 1.6.2. The implicit: presuppositions, implied meanings and implicatures
  3. 1.6.3. Speech acts
  4. 1.6. William Shakespeare, <em>Julius Caesar</em>, 1599, Act III, Scene II (an example illustrating semantic and pragmatic concepts in rhetorical discourse).
1.7. From classical rhetoric to textual linguistics
  1. 1.7.1. The three genres of the classical rhetorical tradition
  2. 1.7.2. Categories of classical rhetoric for discourse analysis
  3. 1.7.3. Cohesion and coherence
  4. 1.7. Lewis Carroll, <em>Alice in Wonderland</em>, 1865, Chapter XII (an example illustrating concepts from classical rhetoric to textual linguistics).
1.8. Argumentative discourse
  1. 1.8.1. Theme, thesis, arguments and examples
  2. 1.8.2. Types of reasoning and types of arguments
  3. 1.8.3. Connectors (toolbox)
  4. 1.8. George Orwell, <em>Animal Farm</em>, 1945, Chapter I (a masterful example of argumentative discourse and persuasive rhetoric).
Quick journey
≃ 1h10
1.1. Signs and languages
  1. 1.1.1. Signs, language systems (langages) and languages (langues). The linguistic sign. Saussure’s theory
  2. 1.1.2. Types of signs: Charles Sanders Peirce
  3. 1.1.3. Peirce and his triadic model: the representamen, the object, the interpretant
  4. 1.1. Jorge Luis Borges, "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius", final excerpt (an example illustrating the idea that language creates or shapes reality).
1.2. Communication: From Sign to Discourse
  1. 1.2.1. Communication model. Functions of Language
  2. 1.2.2. Verbal and non-verbal communication. The Double Articulation of Language
  3. 1.2.3. Language and speech, language and discourse
  4. 1.2. W. Somerset Maugham, "The Appointment in Samarra", 1933 (an example illustrating communication and the interpretation of signs).
1.3. Discursive Typologies
  1. 1.3.1. The main types of discourse
  2. 1.3.2. Discursive genres
  3. 1.3.3. Raymond Queneau, <em>Exercises in Style</em>, 1947 (an example illustrating discursive typologies and the transformation of the same narrative).
1.4. Discourse and subjectivity
  1. 1.4.1. Enunciation, deixis, modalization
  2. 1.4.2. Registers and tones
  3. 1.4.3. Discourse and history, commented world and narrated world
  4. 1.4. Voltaire, <em>The Huron: L'Ingénu</em>, 1767, excerpt from the final chapter (an example illustrating discourse and subjectivity in the representation of emotions).
1.5. The voices of the text
  1. 1.5.1. Dialogue, dialogism and polyphony
  2. 1.5.2. Direct, indirect, free indirect and narrated speech
  3. 1.5.3. Other forms of including another’s speech: irony, concession and negation
  4. 1.5. Juan Rulfo, "Tell Them Not to Kill Me!", <em>The Burning Plain</em>, 1953 (an example illustrating the voices of the text and narrative polyphony).
1.6. Notions of semantics and pragmatics
  1. 1.6.1. Denotation and connotation
  2. 1.6.2. The implicit: presuppositions, implied meanings and implicatures
  3. 1.6.3. Speech acts
  4. 1.6. William Shakespeare, <em>Julius Caesar</em>, 1599, Act III, Scene II (an example illustrating semantic and pragmatic concepts in rhetorical discourse).
1.7. From classical rhetoric to textual linguistics
  1. 1.7.1. The three genres of the classical rhetorical tradition
  2. 1.7.2. Categories of classical rhetoric for discourse analysis
  3. 1.7.3. Cohesion and coherence
  4. 1.7. Lewis Carroll, <em>Alice in Wonderland</em>, 1865, Chapter XII (an example illustrating concepts from classical rhetoric to textual linguistics).
1.8. Argumentative discourse
  1. 1.8.1. Theme, thesis, arguments and examples
  2. 1.8.2. Types of reasoning and types of arguments
  3. 1.8.3. Connectors (toolbox)
  4. 1.8. George Orwell, <em>Animal Farm</em>, 1945, Chapter I (a masterful example of argumentative discourse and persuasive rhetoric).
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Introduction to

literary analysis

Full journey
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2.1. Signs and languages
  1. 2.1.1. Signs, languages and tongues. Saussure's theory
  2. 2.1.2. Types of signs: Charles S. Peirce
  3. 2.1.3. Peirce and his triadic model: the representamen, the object, the interpretant
  4. 2.1.4. Case study: Jorge Luis Borges, end of « Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius » (language creates reality)
2.2. From sign to discourse
  1. 2.2.1. Communication diagram. Functions of language
  2. 2.2.2. Verbal and non-verbal communication. The double articulation of language
  3. 2.2.3. Language and speech, language and discourse
  4. 2.2.4. Case study: Persian legend (ambiguity of gestures), versions by B. Atxaga (Spanish), Jean Cocteau (French), Somerset Maugham (English)
Quick journey
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2.1. Signs and languages
  1. 2.1.1. Signs, languages and tongues. Saussure's theory
  2. 2.1.2. Types of signs: Charles S. Peirce
  3. 2.1.3. Peirce and his triadic model: the representamen, the object, the interpretant
  4. 2.1.4. Case study: Jorge Luis Borges, end of « Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius » (language creates reality)
2.2. From sign to discourse
  1. 2.2.1. Communication diagram. Functions of language
  2. 2.2.2. Verbal and non-verbal communication. The double articulation of language
  3. 2.2.3. Language and speech, language and discourse
  4. 2.2.4. Case study: Persian legend (ambiguity of gestures), versions by B. Atxaga (Spanish), Jean Cocteau (French), Somerset Maugham (English)
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Introduction to

the history of literature

Full journey
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3.1. Signs and languages
  1. 3.1.1. Signs, languages and tongues. Saussure's theory
  2. 3.1.2. Types of signs: Charles S. Peirce
  3. 3.1.3. Peirce and his triadic model: the representamen, the object, the interpretant
  4. 3.1.4. Case study: Jorge Luis Borges, end of « Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius » (language creates reality)
3.2. From sign to discourse
  1. 3.2.1. Communication diagram. Functions of language
  2. 3.2.2. Verbal and non-verbal communication. The double articulation of language
  3. 3.2.3. Language and speech, language and discourse
  4. 3.2.4. Case study: Persian legend (ambiguity of gestures), versions by B. Atxaga (Spanish), Jean Cocteau (French), Somerset Maugham (English)
Quick journey
≃ --h
3.1. Signs and languages
  1. 3.1.1. Signs, languages and tongues. Saussure's theory
  2. 3.1.2. Types of signs: Charles S. Peirce
  3. 3.1.3. Peirce and his triadic model: the representamen, the object, the interpretant
  4. 3.1.4. Case study: Jorge Luis Borges, end of « Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius » (language creates reality)
3.2. From sign to discourse
  1. 3.2.1. Communication diagram. Functions of language
  2. 3.2.2. Verbal and non-verbal communication. The double articulation of language
  3. 3.2.3. Language and speech, language and discourse
  4. 3.2.4. Case study: Persian legend (ambiguity of gestures), versions by B. Atxaga (Spanish), Jean Cocteau (French), Somerset Maugham (English)