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 175-202 Discourse and Pragmatics

Note

Available as 175-302 at 3rd-year level.

Credit Points

16.7 2nd and 3rd year

Coordinator

Brian Paltridge

Prerequisites

Normally at least 12.5 points of Linguistics at first-year level, or 37.5 points of modern language study at first-year level.

Semester

1

Contact

Two lectures and a tutorial per week

Subject Description

This subject will examine language from pragmatic and discourse analytic perspectives. Topics that will be covered include speech act theory, conversational implicature, cross-cultural pragmatics and politeness theory. Other topics will include conversation analysis, discourse structure and segmentation, cohesion, coherence, and discourse and intertextuality. Students will have the opportunity to examine samples of real life language use employing the approaches to analysis presented in the course.

Assessment

Assignments and essays totalling 5000 words at second and third year.

Prescribed Texts
  • Coulthard M, An Introduction to Discourse Analysis. Longman, London 1985.
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