Master’s State Exam

English Language and Literature

Teaching English Language and Literature for Secondary Schools

This list is for all students of Combined Studies and for those students in Day Studies whose year of matriculation is 2008 or later. The list is divided into two parts, based on the choice of track (Literary and Cultural Studies or Linguistics). Students should select texts only from that list assigned to the track they have indicated on their Thesis Topic Registration form, which will have been submitted to the Department prior to writing their Master’s Thesis. Students should also carefully follow the instructions for selecting texts associated with each list. All of the texts are available in the Faculty of Arts Central Library in multiple copies, with one copy of each on reserve ( prezenčně ). In addition all of the State Exam books have been scanned and may accessed through the Central Library’s e-prezenčka program. There is one computer in the SAC dedicated to accessing e-prezenčka texts. Students are encouraged to purchase copies of these texts for themselves.

You must announce your choice of texts using the appropriate form for your track, either Literary and Cultural Studies or Linguistics. This form should be submitted in two copies together with the two bound copies of your Master’s Thesis. For those students submitting a Minor Thesis, only one copy of the form is necessary.

Literary and Cultural Studies

Compulsory Lists: Students must choose one text from List A and one text from List B.

List A

Bloom, Harold. The Western Canon

Eagleton, Terry. Literary Theory

List B

Brantlinger, Patrick. Crusoe’s Footprints

Jenks, Chris. Culture

Area Lists: Students must choose three books. Each book must be from a different area listed below.

Area 1

Abrams, M. H. The Mirror and the Lamp

Bakhtin, Mikhail. The Dialogic Imagination

Buell, Lawrence. The Future of Environmental Criticism:Environmental Crisis and Literary Imagination

Cunningham,Valentine. Reading after Theory

Frye, Northrop. Anatomy of Criticism

Wellek, Rene and Austin Warren. Theory of Literature

Area 2

Foucault, Michel. The Archaeology of Knowledge & The Discourse on Language

Harvey, David. The Condition of Postmodernity

Mitchell, Juliet. Psychoanalysis and Feminism

Said, Edward. Orientalism

Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. Between Men

White, Hayden. Tropics of Discourse

Area 3

Carby, Hazel. Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist

Connor, Steven. The English Novel in History 1950-1995

Greenblatt, Stepehen. Renaissance Self-Fashioning

Leavis, F. R. The Great Tradition

Murphy, Patrick D. Farther Afield in the Study of Nature-Oriented Literature

Robb, Graham. Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century

The New Pelican Guide to English Literature , Volumes 1-8 (select one volume only)

Area 4

Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities

Ashcroft, Bill, Gareth Griffith and Helen Tiffin. The Empire Writes Back

Bernd, Simon. Identity in Modern Society: ASocial Psychological Perspective

Gates, Louis Henry. The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism

Nichols, Bill. Ideology and the Image

Williams, Raymond. The Country and the City

LINGUISTICS

Compulsory Lists: Students must choose one text from List A and one text from List B.

List A

Crystal, David. Linguistics

Svartvik, Jan and Leech, Geoffrey. English: One Tongue, Many Voices

List B

Firbas, Jan. Functional sentence perspective in writtenand spoken communication

Vachek, Josef. Selected Writings in English and General Linguistics

Area Lists: Students must choose three books. Each book must be from a different area listed below. Students may only choose books from Areas 4 and 5 or Areas 6 and 7 with the permission oftheir thesis advisor listed on the Thesis Topic Registration form.

Area 1

Allan, Keith. Natural Language Semantics

Cruttenden, Alan. Gimson’s Pronunciationof English

Huang, Yan. Pragmatics

Mathesius, Vilém. A Functional Analysisof Present Day English on a General Linguistic Basis

Meyerhoff Miriam. Introducing Sociolinguistics

Weber, Jean J. The Stylistics Reader: From Roman Jakobson to the Present.

Area 2

Collins, Beverley S. Practical Phonetis and Phonology

Coulmas, Florian. Sociolinguistics: The Study of Speakers’ Choices

Leech, Geoffrey. Stylein Fiction: A Linguistic Introductionto English Fictional Prose

Leech, Geoffrey, Margaret Deuchar and Robert Hoogenraad. English Grammar for Today: A New Introduction (2005)

Saeed, John I. Semantics.

Thomas, Jenny. Meaning in Interaction

Area 3

Chafe, Wallace. Discourse, Consciousness, and Time

Joseph, John I. Language and Identity

Lyons, John: Linguistic Semantics: An Introduction

McIntyre, Dan. History of English

Schendl, Herbert. Historical linguistics

Tárnyiková, Jarmila. Chapters from Modern English Syntax

Area 4 (Applied Linguistics: Translation Studies)

Chesterman, Andrew: Memes of Translation: The Spread of Ideas in Translation Theory

Nida, Eugene A. and Charles R.Taber: The Theory and Practice of Translation

Nord, Christiane: Translating as a Purposeful Activity

Toury, Gideon: Descriptive Translation Studies and Beyond

Venuti, Lawrence: The Translator’s Invisibility: A History of Translation

Area 5 (Applied Linguistics: Translation Studies)

Hermans, Theo and Anthony Pym. Translation in Systems: Descriptive and System-oriented Approaches Explained

Popovič, Anton. Teória umeleckého prekladu: aspekty textu a literárnej metakomunikácie

Pym, Anthony. Method in Translation History

Steiner, George. After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation

Tabakowska, Elzbieta. Cognitive Linguistics and Poetics of Translation: Language in Performance

Area 6 (Applied Linguistics: Language Teaching Methodology)

Aitchison, Jean. The Articulate Mammal: An Introduction to Psycholinguistics

Larsen-Freeman, Diane. Techniques and Principles in Language Teaching (Teaching Techniques in English as a Second Language)

Lightbown, Patsy and Nina Spada. How Languages Are Learned

Richards, Jack C. and Theodore S. Rodgers. Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching

Area 7 (Applied Linguistics: Language Teaching Methodology)

Crookes, Graham. A Practicum in TESOL: Professional Development through Teaching Practice

Graves, Kathleen. Designing Language Courses: A Guide for Teachers

Hughes, Arthur. Testing for Language Teachers

Nation, I. S. P. Learning Vocabulary in Another Language

Odlin, Terrance. Language Transfer: Cross-Linguistic Influence in Language Learning