MCD337 Advanced Macedonian II
MCD 337 is a continuation of MCD 336 Advanced Macedonian I. You will be introduced to the basic principles of syntactic analysis (of the noun phrase, of the structure of the sentence and its basic components), and stylistics.
Every standard (literary) language displays different functional styles and registers. These depend on the communicative situation and setting - who is communicating to whom, what and under which conditions and with what purpose (sender, receiver, theme, setting, aim). Thus, there are formal or special functional styles like the journalistic style - appropriate for articles, news items, essays, reviews, reports etc in the information media and in other forms of public communication (in itself very varied as well because of the different aspects communicated and the different topics and structure of the text), the scholarly style, that is appropriate for studies on learned and scientific topics (logical, condensed, precise, mainly impersonal, factual, analytical, etc.), a bureaucratic-administrative style, which is used mainly in official and administrative communication (rigid, cliche-ridden, impersonal, factual, manipulative etc). These styles are grouped together as special or formal styles because they require a stricter conformity to certain linguistic and stylistic rules, as well as uniformity, generality, impersonality, abstractness and economy of expression and because they are usually used in formal settings.
All of these styles may be used in the written or the oral medium, which also influences the choice of the grammatical and stylistic means of expression. There are also other styles and registers that will be discussed in the unit - the colloquial style, of everyday conversation, substandard – including jargonisms, dialectisms and interdialectisms, slang - a form of speech used by a particular social group or community,etc.
We will also study the position of Macedonian as a member of the Balkan Sprachbund (Balkan Linguistic Alliance). We will analyse closely the Balkan features of Macedonian.