2025-05-14


2024-2025 EĞİTİM-ÖĞRETİM YILI YÜKSEK LİSANS DEVLET SINAV SORULARI


KYRGYZ-TURKISH MANAS UNIVERSITY

THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES

FILOLOGY / ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

2024-2025 ACADEMIC YEAR

State Examinations’ Questions

 

  1. The Idea of Concept. Types of Concepts
  2. Theory of the Text. Text as an Object of Linguistic Studies. The Structure of Texts.
  3. Generative Grammar by Noam Chomsky
  4. Theories of Language Origin. Language Functions
  5. Cognitive Function of the Language. Conceptual Picture of the World
  6. Linguistic Ideas of Ferdinand de Saussure
  7. Language Development and Change
  8. Language and Thought: The Neo-Whorfian Hypothesis
  9. Language Policy. Bilingualism/Multilingualism
  10. Pragmatics as the theory of speech communication
  11. Components of communicative act connected with the Language code.
  12. Discourse and discourse analysis
  13. Components of communication connected with communicative situation
  14. Speech act theory as one of the disciplines studying speech communication
  15. Studying Linguistic Structure as a Part of Semiotic System.
  16. The Models of Modern Language.
  17. Influence of Social Context on the Current Language State.
  18. Psycholinguistic and Sociolinguistic Directions in Modern Philology.
  19. The Nature of Language Change.
  20. Lingua-Cultural Studies. Language and Culture Interaction.
  21. Early Modern Literary Theory and Criticism/Humanism
  22. Formalism/Structuralism. Eichenbaum, The Theory of the “Formal Method”; Propp, “Morphology of the Folk-tale”
  23. Formalism/Structuralism. Riffaterre, "Describing Poetic Structure”
  24. Deconstruction. Derrida, “Semiology and Grammatology”; Differance”
  25. Deconstruction. Dissemination
  26. Post-structuralism. Barthes, “From Work to Text”; de Man, "Semiology and Rhetoric" ; Foucault, “What is an Author?”.
  27. New Criticism. Eliot, “Tradition and the Individual Talent”; Brooks, "The Heresy of Paraphrase"

 

 

 

 

  1. "The Formalist Critics"; Wimsatt and Beardsley, "The Intentional Fallacy"; "The Affective Fallacy"
  2. Marxist Criticism. Lukacs, "Realism in the Balance; Williams, "Marxism and Literature"; Jameson, "The Political Unconscious"; "Postmodernism and Consumer Society"
  3. Psychoanalytic Criticism. Lacan, “The Mirror Stage”; Bloom, Anxiety of Influence; Kristeva, Revolution in Poetic Language; Laura Mulvey, "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema"
  4. Said, Orientalism; Spivak, A Critique of Postcolonial Reason; Bhaba, "The Commitment to Theory"
  5. Modernism and Aestheticism: The Lost Generation - Scott Fitzgerald, “Babylon Revisited” (1931). The Avant Garde Novel.
  6. The Emergence of Voice and the Legacy of Slavery: Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) The Avant Garde Novel.
  7. Modernism and Consciousness: William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom! (1936)
  8. Writing about War: Ernest Hemingway, Farewell to Arms (1929), J.D. Salinger, “For Esmé – With Love and Squalor” (1950)
  9. Postmodernism. Postwar Literature and Postmodernism. Ladies and Gentlemen by Joyce Carol Oates.
  10. Gendered modernism. William Carlos Williams and the modernist American scene.
  11. Classical Literary Theory and Criticism. Plato and Aristotle.
  12. Traditions of Rhetoric. Aristotle and the means of persuasion, appeals - Ethos, Pathos, Logos.
  13. Digital Literature and Digital Literary Theory and Criticism.

 

 

Prof. Dr. Burul SAGINBAYEVA

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