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 175-011 Discourse and Pragmatics

Note

Formerly available as 175-202/302. Students who have completed 175-202/302 are not eligible to enrol in this subject.

Availability

2nd and 3rd year

Credit Points

12.5

Coordinator

Dr Brian Paltridge

Prerequisites

Completion of 175-105 (175-004) Introduction to Language, or 175-106 (175-005) English: Its Structure and History, or departmental approval.

Semester

1 (view timetable)

Contact

Two 1-hour lectures and a tutorial per week. There will be no tutorials in the first or the middle week

Subject Description

Language from pragmatic and discourse analytic perspectives; speech act theory, conversational implicature, cross-cultural pragmatics and politeness theory. Other topics will include conversation analysis, genre analysis, patterns of cohesion, and discourse and intertextuality. Students will have the opportunity to examine samples of real life language use.

Assessment

A 1000-word essay, and a 2000 word data analysis project, and a 1-hour test held during the University examination period.

Prescribed Texts

Materials prepared by the department.



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