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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. |
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