2025-05-14
2024 - 2025 ОКУУ ЖЫЛЫ МАГИСТРАТУРА ПРОГРАММАСЫ МАМЛЕКЕТТИК СЫНАКТЫН СУРООЛОРУ
KYRGYZ-TURKISH MANAS UNIVERSITY
THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
FILOLOGY / ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
2024-2025 ACADEMIC YEAR
State Examinations’ Questions
- The Idea of Concept. Types of Concepts
- Theory of the Text. Text as an Object of Linguistic Studies. The Structure of Texts.
- Generative Grammar by Noam Chomsky
- Theories of Language Origin. Language Functions
- Cognitive Function of the Language. Conceptual Picture of the World
- Linguistic Ideas of Ferdinand de Saussure
- Language Development and Change
- Language and Thought: The Neo-Whorfian Hypothesis
- Language Policy. Bilingualism/Multilingualism
- Pragmatics as the theory of speech communication
- Components of communicative act connected with the Language code.
- Discourse and discourse analysis
- Components of communication connected with communicative situation
- Speech act theory as one of the disciplines studying speech communication
- Studying Linguistic Structure as a Part of Semiotic System.
- The Models of Modern Language.
- Influence of Social Context on the Current Language State.
- Psycholinguistic and Sociolinguistic Directions in Modern Philology.
- The Nature of Language Change.
- Lingua-Cultural Studies. Language and Culture Interaction.
- Early Modern Literary Theory and Criticism/Humanism
- Formalism/Structuralism. Eichenbaum, The Theory of the “Formal Method”; Propp, “Morphology of the Folk-tale”
- Formalism/Structuralism. Riffaterre, "Describing Poetic Structure”
- Deconstruction. Derrida, “Semiology and Grammatology”; Differance”
- Deconstruction. Dissemination
- Post-structuralism. Barthes, “From Work to Text”; de Man, "Semiology and Rhetoric" ; Foucault, “What is an Author?”.
- New Criticism. Eliot, “Tradition and the Individual Talent”; Brooks, "The Heresy of Paraphrase"
- "The Formalist Critics"; Wimsatt and Beardsley, "The Intentional Fallacy"; "The Affective Fallacy"
- Marxist Criticism. Lukacs, "Realism in the Balance; Williams, "Marxism and Literature"; Jameson, "The Political Unconscious"; "Postmodernism and Consumer Society"
- Psychoanalytic Criticism. Lacan, “The Mirror Stage”; Bloom, Anxiety of Influence; Kristeva, Revolution in Poetic Language; Laura Mulvey, "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema"
- Said, Orientalism; Spivak, A Critique of Postcolonial Reason; Bhaba, "The Commitment to Theory"
- Modernism and Aestheticism: The Lost Generation - Scott Fitzgerald, “Babylon Revisited” (1931). The Avant Garde Novel.
- The Emergence of Voice and the Legacy of Slavery: Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) The Avant Garde Novel.
- Modernism and Consciousness: William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom! (1936)
- Writing about War: Ernest Hemingway, Farewell to Arms (1929), J.D. Salinger, “For Esmé – With Love and Squalor” (1950)
- Postmodernism. Postwar Literature and Postmodernism. Ladies and Gentlemen by Joyce Carol Oates.
- Gendered modernism. William Carlos Williams and the modernist American scene.
- Classical Literary Theory and Criticism. Plato and Aristotle.
- Traditions of Rhetoric. Aristotle and the means of persuasion, appeals - Ethos, Pathos, Logos.
- Digital Literature and Digital Literary Theory and Criticism.
Prof. Dr. Burul SAGINBAYEVA
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