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Postgraduate Course: Figurative Language (MSc) (LASC11100)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
SCQF Credits20 ECTS Credits10
SummaryThe course has a further objective of introducing students to the place of figurativeness - particularly, though not exclusively, the place of metaphor and metonymy - in the field of cognitive linguistics.
Course description This course explores the relationship between figurative and non-figurative language. In particular, we concentrate on the nature of conceptual metaphor and metonymy, and their place in cognitive linguistic frameworks. We look at theoretical approaches to metaphor, and at how experimental approaches to metaphor have refined the theory. We also look at how metaphor, metonymy and other figures of speech are used in texts of various kinds. In particular, we consider the use of figurative language in political discourse and in literary works.
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  1. identify and classify different kinds of figurative language
  2. show an understanding of the history of rhetoric
  3. discuss the place of figurative language in cognitive linguistics
  4. apply a knowledge of theories of figurativeness to texts of various kinds, particularly (but not exclusively) literary texts
Reading List
Adamson, S. 1999. Literary language. In R. Lass (ed.) The Cambridge History of the English Language Volume IV, 1476-1776. Cambridge: CUP, 539-63.

Blake, N.F. 1983. Shakespeare's Language: An Introduction. Basingstoke: Macmillan.

Booth, W.C. 2004. The Rhetoric of Rhetoric. Oxford: Blackwell.

Burke, K. 1962. A Rhetoric of Motives. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Chilton, P. 2006. Metaphors in political discourse. In K. Brown (ed.), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd edition. Oxford: Pergamon. [See other entries on political language in this encyclopedia too.]

Corbett, E.P.J. and R. J. Connors. 1998. Style and Statement. 4th edition. New York: OUP.

Corbett, E.P.J. and R. J. Connors. 1999. Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student. 4th edition. Oxford: Clarendon.

Ewbank, I-S. 1986. Shakespeare and the arts of language. In S. Wells (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare Studies. Cambridge: CUP, 49-66.

Geeraerts, D. and H. Cuyckens (eds.) 2007. The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics. Oxford: OUP.

Grady, J.E. 2007. Metaphor. In Geeraerts and Cuyckens (eds.), 188-213.

Kermode, F. 2000. Shakespeare's Language. New York: Farrar.

Lakoff, G. 1987. Women, Fire and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal about the Mind. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Murphy, J. 1983. Renaissance Eloquence: Studies in the Theory and Practice of Renaissance Rhetoric. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Panther, K-U. and L. Thornberg. 2007. Metonymy. In Geeraerts and Cuyckens (eds.), 236-263.

Partridge, A.C. 1971. The Language of Renaissance Poetry. London: Deutsch

Richards, I.A. 1936. The Philosophy of Rhetoric. New York: OUP.

Sister Miriam Joseph. 2005 [1947]. Shakespeare's Use of the Arts of Language. New York: Paul Dry.

Trousdale, M. 1982. Shakespeare and the Rhetoricians. London: Scolar.

Tsakona, V. 2009. Linguistic creativity, secondary orality, and political discourse: the modern Greek myth of the 'eloquent orator'. Journal of Modern Greek Studies 27: 81-106.

Turner, M. (ed.) 2006. The Artful Mind: Cognitive Science and the Riddle of Human Creativity. Oxford: OUP.

Turner, M. 2007. Conceptual integration. In Geeraerts and Cucykens (eds.), 377-93.

Vickers, B. 1970. Classical Rhetoric in English Poetry. London: Macmillan.

Vickers, B. 1971. Shakespeare's use of rhetoric. In K. Muir and S. Schoenbaum (eds.) A New Companion to Shakespeare Studies. Cambridge: CUP, 83-98. [Reprinted in V. Salmon and E. Burness (eds.) 1987. A Reader in the Language of Shakespearean Drama. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 391-406.]

Vickers, B. 1997. In Defence of Rhetoric. 2nd edition. Oxford: Clarendon.

Wodak, R. 2009. Language and politics. In J. Culpeper, F. Katamba, P. Kerswill, R. Wodak and T. McEnery (eds.), English Language: Description, Variation and Context. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 576-93.
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
Additional Class Delivery Information Attend all lectures as scheduled
Keywordsfigurative language,rhetoric
Contacts
Course organiserDr Graeme Trousdale
Tel: (0131 6)50 3599
Email: Graeme.Trousdale@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMiss Toni Noble
Tel: (0131 6)51 3188
Email: Toni.noble@ed.ac.uk
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