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Anglistika-amerikanistika

Lingvistika

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Introduction to Linguistics

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Introduction to English Linguistics

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Phonetics and Phonology

• Phonetics and its Subjects
• Language, Speech and Communication
• Speech Organs
• Vowel Map
  • Cardinal Vowels
  • Diphtongs and Triphthongs
• Consonant Map
  • Plosives
  • Fricatives
  • Affricates and Nasals
  • Approximants
• Assimilation and Coarticulation
• Elision

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Morphology

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Syntax

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History of the English Language

Lecture Topics

• 2. Introduction II: variation and change
• 3. English as an Indo-European and a Germanic Language (Structural Innovations)
• 4. Anglo-Saxon England: history and culture
• 5. Old English: historical, structural and typological profile I
• 6. Old English: historical, structural and typological profile II
• 7. Old English: historical, structural and typological profile III
• 8. Later medieval England: history and culture
• 9. Middle English: historical, structural and typological profile I
• 10. Middle English: historical, structural and typological profile II
• 11. Middle English: historical, structural and typological profile III
• 12. Middle English: historical, structural and typological profile IV

Etymologies

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Phraseology and Idiomatics

• Introducing Phraseology - Basic Terminology
• Collocation
• Formulaic Language
• Grammatical Idioms/Phrasemes
• Binominals
• Similes
• Verb Collocates
• Verbonominal Expressions
• Proverbs
• Stylistic Aspects of Using Formulaic Language
• English Phraseological Dictionaries

Literatura

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Writing Skills

• What is ....?
  • Review
  • Description
  • Abstract x Resumé x Summary
  • Argumentative Essay
• Citation Styles
  • MLA
  • APA

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Introduction to Literary Studies

• Basic Literary Terms
  • Poetics: Introduction
  • Rhetorical Figures
  • Narratology: Introduction
• Text: Classification of Genres
• Approaches to Literary Texts: Typology
• Literary Depiction of Reality
• Authorial Intent and "Dead of the Author"
• Receptive Theories
• Structuralist Method and Its Post-Structuralist Critique

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Introduction to British and American Culture

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British History

• From Prehistory to Norman Invasion: the Celts, the Romans, Saxon Invasion, Society and Forms of Power
• From Prehistory to Norman Invasion: Christianity, Church and the State, Vikings, Individual Kingdoms
• Norman Dynasty up to House of Plantagenet: Feudalism, Dynasties, Magna Charta
• Norman Dynasty up to House of Plantagenet: Church and the State, Parliament and Law, Subjugating the Celts
• Late Middle Ages: Wars with Scotland and France, the Age of Chivalry, The Century of Plague, Heresy and Orthodoxy, King's Power in Crisis, The War of Roses
• The Tudors: The Rise of Nation State, Reformation, Foreign Policy, English-Scottish Relations, Elizabeth I., Mary, Queen of Scots, Scottish Reformation and James VI./I.
• The Parliament in Conflict with the Crown, the Stuarts, Cromwell and the Republic, Civil War
• Restoration and the Glorious Revolution
• The House of Hanover, The Acts of Union and Scottish Resistance: Mercantilism, American and French Revolution
• Romantism and Revolution, Expansion of the British Empire
• Napoleonic Wars, Reign of Queen Victoria, Industrial Growth
• First World War, Labour Party, Suffragette Movement, Irish Crisis, Great Depression, Second World War and Fall of the Empire
• Recent and Contemporary Issues: Internal Colonialism - Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, New Policy- Special Relations between UK and USA, The Future of United Kingdom

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History of the USA

• Collonialism, 1580-1750
• The American Revolution, 1750-1815
• The Democratic States, 1815-1850
• The Civil War, 1850-1870
• The Industrial States, 1870-1912
• USA: The Melting Pot, 1912-1929
• USA: The Superpower, 1929-1945
• USA and Cold War, 1945-1961
• USA: Solving and Creating Problems, 1960-1969
• USA: Rise and Fall of Détente, 1969-1980
• USA: From Failure of Détente to Fall of Iron Curtain, 1980-1989
• USA: After Cold War, 1989-

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British Literature

• Medieval Literature
  • English Heroic Poetry and Anglo-Saxon Culture before Christianity
  • Old English Literature under Christian Influence
  • Religious and Elegiac Poetry
  • Development of Old English Prose
  • Early Middle English Literature- Chronicles in Verse, Contemplative Poetry
  • Two Traditions of Court Poetry
  • Chivalric Romance
  • Satire
  • Lyric Poetry
  • Morality Plays
  • Middle English Mystery Plays
  • Development of Middle English Prose
  • Medieval Drama
  • Literature and Culture of Medieval Ireland
• Renaissance Drama
  • Origin and Development of English Drama
  • Shakespeare's Predecessors, Contemporaries and Drama after Shakespeare
  • Elizabethan Theatre
  • Shakespearean Comedies
    • The Genesis of Comedy
    • Festive Comedies
    • Problem Plays
  • Shakespearean Tragedies
    • The Genesis of Tragedy
    • Early Tragedies
    • Tragedies
    • Ancient Tragedies
  • Shakespearean Histories
  • Romance on Stage
  • Renaissance Poetry
  • Development of English Sonnets
• Poetry of English Classicism
• The Rise of the Novel
  • From Defoe to Stern
  • The Novel in 19th Century: Realism and Romantism
• Sentimentalism and Preromantism
• Gothic Novel
• Cultural Revival in Ireland, Scottland and Wales
• Romantism on British Isles
• Victorian Poetry
• Literature of the late 19th Century
• Genesis of Modernism in the European Context
  • T.S.Eliot: Tradition and Individual Talent
  • James Joyce and the Revolution of Word
  • Virginia Woolf and Bloomsbury Group
  • D.H.Lawrence: Aestheticism of His Novels
• Geroge Orwell and Literature of the 30s and 40s
• Second Half of the 20th Century: Literary Movements
  • Development of Theatre and Drama
  • Poetry: Larkin, Hughes, Heaney and others
  • Prose of the 50s
  • Prose of the 60s
  • Development of Historical Novel
  • Development of Campus Novel
  • British Female Writers
  • Prose of the 70s, 80s, 90s

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Literary Theory

• Beginnings of Literary Thinking in Antiquity
• Literature and Rhetorics in English Renaissance. Influence of Printing Press. Literature as Commodity
• Classicism. Augustan Age. Neoclassicism - Normative Poetry and the Origins of Copyrights
• Romantic Poetics and Aesthetics - Poetry as Communication, Imagination, Expression
• Victorian Approach to Literature and Art
• New Criticism
• Structuralism in USA, Canada, France and the Czech Republic
• Basic Terminology of Rhetorics, Metrics, Historical Poetics and Narratology

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