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infoWhy this? Language levels provide the analytical toolkit underpinning the integration of language and literature. Exploring phonetics, phonology, prosody, lexis, semantics, grammar, pragmatics, and discourse helps us identify significant choices and explain their effects precisely. This shared terminology supports analysis of how writers and speakers construct meanings across literary, non-literary, spoken, and multimodal texts.

scheduleWhy now? Taught first, this unit establishes a common analytical vocabulary and addresses differences in prior learning before detailed study of the set texts. It develops close-reading habits that we can apply immediately, then revisit and refine as we encounter increasingly complex texts throughout the course.