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 175-011 Discourse & Pragmatics

Note

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

Credit Points

12.5

HECS Band

1

Coordinator

Dr Lesley Stirling

Semester

1 (view timetable)

Contact

Two 1-hour lectures and a tutorial per week. There will be no tutorials in the first and the sixth week of semester. Tutorials are optional for postgraduate students

Subject Description

This subject involves the study of 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, pragmatics, grammar and discourse. Students will have the opportunity to examine samples of real-life language use.

Assessment

A 1500 word essay, and a 2500 word project for undergraduate students. A 5000 word assignment for postgraduate students.

Prescribed Texts

  • B Paltridge, Making Sense of Discourse Analysis. Antipodean Educational Enterprises.


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