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HU Credits:
2
Degree/Cycle:
2nd degree (Master)
Responsible Department:
Hebrew Language
Semester:
1st Semester
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
Prof. Adina Moshavi
Coordinator Office Hours:
Tuesday 12:15-13:15
Teaching Staff:
Prof. Adina Moshavi
Course/Module description:
In this course we take a linguistic approach to discourse analysis, studying language elements which are dependent on the relation of a sentence to its textual context. Basic concepts in discourse analysis will be applied to phenomena in modern and Biblical Hebrew.
Course/Module aims:
To impart to the students an understanding of basic concepts in discourse analysis and the scientific literature on the discourse analysis of Hebrew
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
1. Identify the coherence relation between a sentence and its context
2. Understand the principles governing the kind of expressions used to refer to participants in a text
3. Understand the principles of information structure and their influence on word order in the sentence
4. Understand the role of argumentation and rhetoric in structuring sentences in texts
Attendance requirements(%):
100
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
הרצאה ותרגול
Course/Module Content:
Week Topic
1 Introduction to discourse analysis
2 Basic concepts: coherence relations
3-4 Causal and contrastive relations
5 Basic concepts: activation states
6-7 Participant reference
8-9 Information structure and word order
10-11 Argumentation and rhetoric
12 Guided research
13 Presentations
Required Reading:
1. Knott, A. 2001. “Semantic and pragmatic relations and their intended effects,” in Text Representation: Linguistic and Psycholinguistic Aspects, eds. T. Sanders, J. Schilperoord and W. Spooren, Human Cognitive Processing 8, Amsterdam: Benjamins, 127-151.
2. לבנת זהר ואילאיל יציב. תשס"ב. "קשר הסיבה 'כי' בלשון הדבורה והכתובה: מאפיינים סמנטיים, פרגמטיים וטקסטואליים", בלשנות עברית 51-50, עמ' 66-51
3. עבאדי, עדינה, תשמ"ח, תחביר השיח של העברית החדשה, ירושלים, מאגנס, עמ' 62-44
4. אלון, עמנואל ודינה גולדברג, תשע"ב, "מילות ניגוד, עימות ויתור בעברית בת ימינו", בלשנות עברית חפ"שית 66, עמ' 7-21
5. Prince, Ellen F., “Toward a taxonomy of given-new information”, in Radical pragmatics, ed. Peter Cole, New York: Academic Press, 1981, 223-225.
6. De Regt, L. J., “Participant reference in discourse: Biblical Hebrew,” in Encyclopedia of Hebrew language and linguistics, ed. G. A. Khan, Leiden: Brill, 2013.
7. Runge, S., “Pragmatic effects of semantically redundant anchoring expressions in Biblical Hebrew narrative,” Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages 32 (2006): 85-102.
8. פולק, פרנק, "מעמד הדוברים ומבנה הדו-שיח בסיפורי המקרא" בית מקרא 48 (תשסג) עמ' 1 -18; 97 -119.
9. עדינה מושבי, "הטופיקליזציה בעברית של המקרא", לשוננו סט,א-ב (תשס"ז), עמ' 7 - 30
10. עדינה מושבי, "הקדמת הפוקוס בעברית המקראית", לשוננו עא, א-ב (תשסט), 35 - 55
Additional Reading Material:
Will be provided throughout the course
Grading Scheme :
Essay / Project / Final Assignment / Referat 80 %
Presentation / Poster Presentation / Lecture/ Seminar / Pro-seminar / Research proposal 20 %
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