英语学文学硕士

课程模块Modules

• Core modules
• Optional modules
• The linguistic and cultural appropriation of gangsta rap to postcolonial 'writing back'
• Failed marriages in Jane Austen to ecological preoccupations in female-authored speculative fiction

English Language and Applied Linguistics modules: (20 credits each)

• issues of sexist and discriminatory language towards LGBT people
• explore in depth techniques for the presentation of consciousness in novels and other fictional texts
• consider the historical development of consciousness presentation techniques
• how we learn, produce and understand speech, words, sentences and discourse
• how is this the same and different in a first, second or third language
• how we understand non-literal language like how 'spill the beans' means ‘reveal a secret’
• what is the relationship between language and emotion and how emoticons may convey emotion
• The effects of age and individual learner differences
• The influence of mother tongue on second language learning
• The acquisition of grammar, vocabulary and other aspects of language
• The role of language teaching in the classroom and in other contexts
• Different categories of vocabulary (i.e. academic or technical vocabulary)
• The use of corpora, large databases of language, in the study of vocabulary
• Practical applications of vocabulary research in language teaching, syllabus design and materials development
• the components of L2 motivation
• strategies to increase student motivation
• structural and developmental characteristics of the 'good' learner group
• group building techniques
• effective leadership roles
• methods of collecting quantitative and qualitative data
• questionnaire and interview design
• the use of the statistical software SPSS in quantitative data analysis
• 定性数据分析与诠释qualitative data analysis and interpretation
• best practices in presenting quantitative and qualitative results
• linguistic coercion in courtrooms, classrooms, prisons
• 电子传播electronic communication
• miscommunication
• 广告传播advertising communication
• critical discourse analysis and multimodal critical discourse analysis
• political talk and the use of persuasive discourse
• jargon, double speak, and fake news
• conversation analysis
• 语料库语言学corpus linguistics
• 批判话语分析critical discourse analysis
• pragmatics
• linguistic ethnography
• sociolinguistics
• 商业与其他专业相遇business and other professional encounters
• 媒体the media
• 教育education
• Spoken grammar
• Fluency and pronunciation
• Metacognitive approaches
• Varied textbooks and materials critique
• retrieving and interpreting word frequency information
• studying patterns of words in the form of concordances
• analysing key words and key semantic domains
• How is it that different readers interpret the same literary work differently?
• How can we care emotionally about fictional people in books?
• How do some literary works make you cry, or laugh, or be fearful or joyous?
• How do we understand the minds of other people, real and imaginary?
• How do literary works create atmosphere, tone, and ambience?
• Does reality and fictionality matter?
• How does language create worlds?

Drama and Creative Writing modules: (20 credits each)

• key prose-writing techniques, including point of view, characterisation, dialogue and setting
• a range of form and genre, and the techniques and approaches that are relevant to them
• a range of critical texts that deepen and extend your understanding of prose writing technique
• poetry magazines
• new writers’ anthologies
• debut poetry collections
• poetry in performance
• the interpretive possibilities that the plays offer
• the choices made by specific interpreters of the text
• How to critically examine your own creative work
• How to write a critical essay
• New writers of creative, critical and hybridic work
• journals
• small presses
• 在线写作online writing
• digital narratives
• 社会媒体social media

Literature:1500 - The Present modules: (20 credits each)

• Utopias and dystopias: future visions, past reflections
• Technology and the posthuman, from AI to the augmented body
• Loving the alien: alterity and identity
• Genre and beyond: expectations and experimentation
• The development of the literary canon
• Periodicity
• Inclusions and exclusions
• 接受Reception
• Rediscoveries
• 表征Representation
• Subjectivity and consciousness
• Community and identity: gender, race, nation
• Experimental form and the literary marketplace
• Maps and cultural cartographies
• 城市主义与文学城市Urbanism and the literature of cities
• 旅游与文学旅游Travel and literary tourism
• Regional and provincial literature
• Nationalism and cosmopolitanism
• 殖民主义与后殖民Colonialism and the postcolonial
• The literature of empire
• Ideas of community and dwelling
• The relation between literary and spatial forms
• 晚期中世纪late medieval
• the 'drab'
• religious verse
• poetry and science
• Epicureanism
• verse epistles
• 性别与康复gender and recovery
• 'minor' poets and failure
• Empire and Romanticism
• the dramatic monologue
• modernist poetics
• free verse
• ecopoetics