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Function Words in Discourse
ECTS Credits: 1,5 Language: English Duration: IX semester Status: electives Course description: The course is designed to familiarize students with the use of function words in the English conversational discourse. Quite often, the speech of students who study English differs from that of natural speakers. One of the reasons can be explained by the fact that students of English avoid using function words which have no direct equivalents in the Ukrainian language (e.g. after all, in fact, anyway, actually). At the same time, these small language units are indispensable in natural communication as they make speech natural and authentic. The course deals with a systemic description of function words of the English language, reveals their semantic and pragmatic peculiarities and offers students practical recommendations how to use them in speech. The lecturer is Candidate of Linguistics, Associate Professor L.M.Volkova.
Nonverbal Communication: Functional and Nominative Aspects
ECTS Credits: 1,5 Language: English Duration: IX semester Status: electives Course description: The discovery of the importance of gestures, facial expressions, voice qualities in communication has transformed the study of human social behavior. Nonverbal signs appear to operate at three levels: they define and condition the communication system; nonverbal signs help to regulate the communication process; finally, they communicate contents, feelings and intentions in speech acts. This electives course covers such topics as: power of nonverbal communication; ontogenetic aspect of nonverbal signs; system of nonverbal communication; general theories in the field of nonverbal; nonverbal communication: emotion, culture; ways of designating the nonverbal signs in English texts. This course aims to highlight functional, pragmatic and nominative aspects of nonverbal communication and to demonstrate its practical relevance to language learning and teaching. The lecturer is Candidate of Linguistics, Associate Professor I.I. Seryakova. Topics for research course papers
Aspects of Diachronic English Syntax
ECTS Credits: Language: English Duration: VIII semester Status: electives Course description: Studies in English syntax with attention given to investigative methods and findings of contemporary linguistic analysis. The lecturer is Candidate of Linguistics G. Semenenko.
Introduction to Modern English Syntax
ECTS Credits: 1,5 Language: English Duration: VI semester Status: electives Course description: Basic principles of syntactic theory applied to the analysis of English sentences. The lecturer is Candidate of Linguistics G. Semenenko.
Communicative and Functional Analysis of Informative Texts in English
ECTS Credits: 1,5
Language: English
Duration: IX semester
Status: electives
Course description: Mastering a language presupposes not only the ability to make up sentences (so-called language competence) but also the ability to use them correctly in order to achieve a certain communicative and functional effect. This course aims at familiarizing the students with main notions of communicative and functional analysis (communicative situation and its components, pragmatic and extralinguistic factors, speech norms and cultural component of meaning) as well as language means preferable in English informative and descriptive texts (specifics of nouns, verbs and adjectives usage, means of connection, subject-predicate structures, factual text-presentation.)
The lecturer is Candidate of Linguistics, Associate Professor L.P.Bereza |
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