Module 1. Understanding Everyday and Literary Language

Main textbook

• Yule, George, Pragmatics, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1996Compulsory*
• Toomer, Jean, Cane, Ww Norton & Co, 2011Compulsory*

Texts from which excerpts will be distributed (many are also freely available online):

• Austin, J. L.; Urmson, J. O.; Sbisà, Marina., How to do things with words, 2nd ed., Oxford, Clarendon, 1975Compulsory*
• Cavanagh, Dermot, The Edinburgh Introduction to Studying English Literature, Edinburgh University Press, 2010Compulsory*
• MacDonald, Michael, The Oxford handbook of rhetorical studies, New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 2014-Compulsory*
• Tannen, Deborah; Hamilton, Heidi E.; Schiffrin, Deborah, The Handbook of Discourse Analysis, 2nd Edition, Chichester, West Sussex, John Wiley & Sons, 2015Compulsory*
• Stockwell, Peter; Whiteley, Sara, The Cambridge handbook of stylistics, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2014Compulsory*
• Vickers, Brian, In defence of rhetoric, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1988Compulsory*
• Weiss, Shira Wolosky, Art of Poetry: How to Read a Poem, Oxford University Press, 2001Compulsory*

Melanie Gagich and Emilie Zickel, A Guide to Rhetoric, Genre, and Success in First-Year Writing.

Module 2. Social Studies in the English Speaking World: Theory and Practice

Main textbook

• Mauk, David, American civilization: an introduction, 2017Compulsory*
• Oakland, John, British civilization: an introduction, 2015Compulsory*

Selections from:

• Burton, Mary Ingouville., Truth and Reconciliation Commission / Mary Ingouville Burton, Athens, Ohio, Ohio University Press, 2017Compulsory* (Selections.)

Additional articles/book chapters

• Malik, Kenan, The Great British Empire Debate, Part of: The New York review of books., 2018Compulsory*
• Wiley, Terence G., Language Policy, Politics, and Diversity in Education Introduction, Part of: Review of research in education, vol. 38, 2014Compulsory*
• Wiley, Terence G., Diversity, Super-Diversity, and Monolingual Language Ideology in the United States: Tolerance or Intolerance?, Part of: Review of research in education, vol. 38, 2014Compulsory*
• Williams, Colin H., The Lightening Veil, Part of: Review of research in education, vol. 38, 2014Compulsory*

Open Democracy, "From island nation to Atlantic archipelago: re-assessing Scotland, Britain and Atlantic slavery" (https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/from-islandnation-to-atlantic-archipelago-reassessing-scotland-britain-an/)

Newspaper articles on the Windrush Affair

Photocopied materials

Module 3. English Linguistics and Language Structure

• Estling Vannestål, Maria, A university grammar of English: with a Swedish perspective, Second edition, Lund, Studentlitteratur, [2015]Compulsory*
• Nelson, Gerald; Greenbaum, Sidney, An introduction to English grammar, Fourth edition., London, Routledge, 2016Compulsory*
• Key questions in second language acquisition: an introduction, New York, Cambridge University Press, 2020Compulsory*

Module 4. Remapping American and British Literature

• Whitman, Walt, Leaves of grass: the original 1855 edition, New York, Dover Publications, 2007Compulsory*
• Collins, Wilkie, Moonstone, Penguin Books Ltd, 1998Compulsory*
• Jacobs, Harriet A.; Painter, Nell Irvin., Incidents in the life of a slave girl, New York, Penguin Books, 2000Compulsory*
• Woolf, Virginia, Mrs Dalloway, [New ed.], Oxford, OUP Oxford, 2000Compulsory*
• Fitzgerald, F. Scott, The great Gatsby, Scribner trade paperback edition., New York, Scribner, 2004Compulsory*
• Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, Yellow wall-paper, herland, and selected writings, Penguin Classics, 2009Compulsory* (Herland)
• Joyce, James; Norris, Margot., Dubliners: authoritative text, contexts, criticism, 1st ed., New York, W.W. Norton, c2006Compulsory*

A selection of poetry and/or short stories available online.

* Compulsory