Guia docente 2014_15 Facultade de Filoloxía e Tradución

Máster Universitario en Estudos Ingleses Avanzados e as súas Aplicacións

Contidos

Tema	Subtema
1. World Englishes (WEs): definition, development and general characteristics	1.1. Introduction to the study of World Englishes: their origin and main characteristics. 1.2. Models of analysis and their limitations. 1.3. World Englishes vs English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) and Globish.
2. Methodological approaches to the study of WEs.	2.1. Introduction to the resources on World Englishes. 2.2. Illustration of corpora, electronic resources and journals.
3. Exploring variation and change in World Englishes: Vernacular Universals	3.1. The concept of vernacular universal and angloversal and illustration of their types. 3.2. Reasons for their emergence. 3.3. Repercussion on Standard English.
4. Factors determining variation and change in World Englishes	4.1. Examination of potential sources of substrate influence. 4.2. Analysis of superstrate influence. 4.3. Contact-induced changes. 4.4. Cognitively-induced changes.
5. World Englishes meets Historical Linguistics	The study of World Englishes as a window on the history of English
6. Grammaticalization: definition and general characteristics	6.1. Early work 6.2. What is grammaticalization 6.3. Parameters, principles or mechanisms involved in grammaticalization (i) Structural properties (ii) Semantic-pragmatic features (iii) Phonological processes 6.4. Frequency and grammaticalization 6.5. Unidirectionality
7. Constructions in grammaticalisation	Grammaticalisation and construction grammar
8. Criticism on grammaticalisation	8.1. Is grammaticalisation a theory? 8.2. Degrammaticalisation. 8.3 Lexicalisation.