Syllabus Sixth Semester

Semester VI

1.         Classics in Novel- I (18^th Century to Victorian)                                                 

ü  Fielding, Joseph Andrews

ü  Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

ü  Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

ü  Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

ü  Thomas Hardy, Tess Of The D’Urbervilles

2.         Psycholinguistics

ü  The Nature Of Language

·        The Psychology Of Language

·        The Structure And Function Of Language

·        Processes In The Use Of Language

ü  First Steps In Child’s Language Acquisition

·        Communicating with Language

·        Issues In The L/A

·        Methods Of Studying Child’s Language

ü  Later Growth In The Child’s Language

ü  The Psychology of Learning

·         Theories of language Acquisition/Learning (Behaviourism, Cognitivism, Interactionism)

·         Memory

·          Interlanguage

·          Error Analysis

ü  Perception and Production of First and later Sounds

ü  Individual Learner Factors

·         Age and Critical Age

·         Affective and personality factors

·         Cognitive styles

·         Motivation

ü  Language and Thought (Language Universals and Linguistic Relativity)

3.         Literary Criticism and Theory-II

New Criticism

ü        T. S. Eliot’s Tradition And Individual Talent, Function Of Criticism

ü        F.R. Leavis’   Literary Criticism And Philosophy (The Common          Pursuits)

ü        Derida, Of Grammatology (Selection)

Modern, Post-modern and Contemporary Approaches/Theories (An Introduction)

(At least four as per Choice or Requirement):

§      Postcolonial–With emphasis on Racial, National, and Global

§      Postmodern–With emphasis on Popular, Cyber-Spatial, and Technological

§      Linguistic – With emphasis on Structural, Post-structural, Translation

§      Psychoanalytic – With emphasis on Psycho and  Socio-pathological

§      Reception – With emphasis on Interpretation, Hermeneutics, Reader-Response

§      Marxist – With emphasis on Economic, Social and Cultural

§      Feminist – With emphasis on Gender and Sexuality Studies

§      Myth-o-poetic – With emphasis on Archetypal, Phenomenal, and Genre based

§      Inter-textuality – With emphasis on Comparative World                         

4.         Prose- II (Modern)

           

ü        T.H. Huxley, Selections: From Agnosticism And Christianity, From   Science And Culture, From A Liberal Education

ü        Bertrand Russel, Bertrand Russel’s Best: Silhouettes In Satire

ü        Martin Luther King, Non-violent Resistance

ü        Mikhailovich Bakhtin, Dialogics

ü        Edward Said, Orientalism (Chapter-1)

5.         Contemporary Issues in Applied Linguistics

ü  Language, Identity and Culture

ü   Language and Gender

ü   Globalization and its Impact on Teaching and Learning of English

ü   Language and Development

ü   World Englishes

ü   Language Policy and Planning

ü   Language in Education

ü   Bilingual Education

NOTE:                 Books/Materials related to the part of Contemporary Issues in               Applied Linguistics will be suggested and provided by the tutor of the       course.