This document lists 13 potential exam topics for a winter 2017 TLLG exam session. The topics cover various theories of language including Saussure's concepts of langue and parole; Jakobson's theories of metaphor, metonymy and the functions of language; Chomsky's concepts of competence and performance; and theories of language from Hjelmslev, Coseriu, and Halliday focused on expression, content, system, norm and experiential metafunction.
This document lists 13 potential exam topics for a winter 2017 TLLG exam session. The topics cover various theories of language including Saussure's concepts of langue and parole; Jakobson's theories of metaphor, metonymy and the functions of language; Chomsky's concepts of competence and performance; and theories of language from Hjelmslev, Coseriu, and Halliday focused on expression, content, system, norm and experiential metafunction.
This document lists 13 potential exam topics for a winter 2017 TLLG exam session. The topics cover various theories of language including Saussure's concepts of langue and parole; Jakobson's theories of metaphor, metonymy and the functions of language; Chomsky's concepts of competence and performance; and theories of language from Hjelmslev, Coseriu, and Halliday focused on expression, content, system, norm and experiential metafunction.
This document lists 13 potential exam topics for a winter 2017 TLLG exam session. The topics cover various theories of language including Saussure's concepts of langue and parole; Jakobson's theories of metaphor, metonymy and the functions of language; Chomsky's concepts of competence and performance; and theories of language from Hjelmslev, Coseriu, and Halliday focused on expression, content, system, norm and experiential metafunction.
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SUBIECTE POSIBILE EXAMEN TLLG
Sesiunea de iarna 2017
1. The typological classification of languages (with special reference to English)
2. Synchronic and diachronic in Saussures theory of language 3. Signifier and signified 4. Langue and parole 5. Syntagmatic and paradigmatic in Saussures theory of language 6. Syntagmatic and paradigmatic in Jakobsons theory of metaphor and metonimy 7. The concept of markedness 8. The constituent factors of a speech event and their corresponding functions of language (jakobson) 9. The poetic function of language. 10. Expression and content in Hjelmslevs theory of language 11. System and Norm in Coserius and Hjelmslevs theories of language 12. Hallidays experiential metafunction of language 13. Describe Chomskys theory on the study of language and his concepts of competence and performance