The main aim of Unit 37 is to present the issue of literary language, literary genres and literary criticism. Our aim is to offer a broad account of what literary texts are and why they are used for in both linguistic, pragmatic and educational terms,...
The main aim of Unit 38 is to present the issue of English for science, techonology, business and administration, that is, scientific, technological, business and administrative English texts in terms of structure and main features. Our aim is to offer a broad account...
The main aim of Unit 39 is to examine discourse analysis strategies, that is, the main strategies that come into force in discourse analysis. Our aim then is to link the notions of discourse, discourse analysis and communicative strategies to its importance in society...
The present unit, Unit 41, aims to provide a detailed account of the process of romanisation in Britain and examine to what extent we can talk about an influence of Latin on the English language on the basis of loanwords and calques, that is, the...
The present unit, Unit 43, aims to provide a detailed account of the relevance of orality in medieval literature so as to link this oral tradition with the two highest literary productions in Middle English, that is, the Arthurian legend and Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury...
The present unit, Unit 44, aims to provide a detailed account of the relationship between the figure of Shakespeare and the Tudor Age so as to link his literature productions with the main Elizabethan literature masterpieces . In order to analyse these links we...
The present unit, Unit 45, aims to provide a useful introduction to the various relationships between the imaginative literature of eighteenth-century Great Britain and changing social, economic, political, cultural and technological conditions within this period...
The present unit, Unit 46, aims to provide a useful introduction to the historical development of the United States of America from the War of Independence to the Civil War so as to examine the link between the changing social, economic, political, cultural and...
The present unit, Unit 47, aims to provide a useful introduction to the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain and its influence as a model of historical transformation (namely between 1750 and 1850) since it is considered to be the most important economic change...
The present unit, Unit 48, aims to provide a useful introduction to Romanticism in Great Britain and its influence on the poetry and prose, that is, the main novels of the period (namely between 1790 and 1837). We shall also deal with the main social...