Facultatea de Litere

Departamentul de limba i literatura englez prof.dr. Mihai M. Zdrenghea

BIBLIOGRAFIA

colocviului de admitere la doctorat

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TEMATICA EXAMENULUI DE DOCTORAT

1. SYNTAX.

The Kernel Sentence. The Noun Phrase. Determiner + Noun. The Verb Phrase. Adv-p.

Verbals. V(i) and V(t). The Other Verb Categories. The Auxiliary. Word Boundary.

Modals. Have + participle. Be + ing. Combinations from the Auxiliary. Semi-modals.

Pre-Articles. Number. Adverbials of Place/Frequency/Time. T-adverb of frequency

Applied to Verbal Structures. Questions. Negatives. T-yes/no. T-do. T-negative. Wh-

Questions. T-wh, adverbial of place. T-wh, adverbial of time. T-wh, adverbial of manner.

T-wh, adverbial of frequency. T-wh, noun phrase. The there-transformation. T-there with

be-ing. The Passive transformation. The Relative Clause. A Deletion Transformation. Use

of T-relative, deletion. T-sentence modifier. Sentences Used in NP functions. The

Possessive transformation. The comparative/Superlative Transformation. T-for ... to. T-

poss+ing. Sentence Connectors. T-conjunction. Subdivisions of V(i). Subdivisions of

V(t).

2. SEMANTICS.

The terms semantics and meaning. Naming. Concepts. Sense and Reference. Kinds of

Meaning. The word as a semantic unit. Context of situation. Behaviourism. Linguistic

relativity. Synonymy. Polysemy and homonymy. Incompatibility. Hyponymy. Antonymy.

Relational Opposites. Interpretive Semantics. Context as meaning. Components and

Contrasts of Meaning. Collocation. Word and Sentence. Projection Rules. Grammar and

lexicon. Formal grammar. Person and Deixis. Transitivity and causativity. Performatives

and Speech Acts. Presupposition. Generative Semantics. Semantics and Syntax.

3. PRAGMATICS.

Semantics and Pragmatics. Semantic Representation and Pragmatic Interpretation. Rules

and Principles. Convention and motivation. Pragmatics as problem-solving. Formal and

functional explanations. The ideational, interpersonal, and textual functions of language.

The Cooperative Principle (CP) and the Politeness Principle (PP). Maxims of Quality and

Quantity. Maxim of Relation. Maxim of Manner. The Tact Maxim. Varieties of

illocutionary function. Pragmatic paradoxes of politeness. Maxims of Politeness:

generosity, approbation, modesty, other. Metalinguistic aspects of politeness.

Communicative grammar and pragmatic force. Some aspects of negation and

interrogation in English. Implicatures. The Speech Act theories of Austin and Searle. The

pragmatics of Illocutionary performatives. Speech-act verb in English: locutionary,

illocutionary and perlocutionary.