175-011 Discourse & Pragmatics

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175-011 Discourse & Pragmatics
Note	Formerly available as 175-202/302. Students who have completed 175-202 or 175-302 are not eligible to enrol in this subject.
Availability	2nd and 3rd year
Credit Points	12.5
Coordinator	Assoc Prof Lesley Stirling
Semester	Not Offered (view timetable)
Contact	Two 1-hour lectures and a 1-hour tutorial per week. There will be no tutorial in the first week of semester
Subject Description	This subject involves the study of language from pragmatic and discourse analytic perspectives. It will include topics such as: the collection and transcription of spoken language data; speech act theory, conversational implicature, deixis and perspective; conversation analysis and other approaches to discourse analysis such as interactional sociolinguistics, critical discourse analysis, and discourse and grammar. Students will learn how to design a small research project in discourse analysis and will have many opportunities to study samples of real-life language use from different perspectives.
Generic Skills	have developed research skills through collecting data and applying an analytic perspective; be able to integrate theory and data in a written account.
Assessment	An essay of 1500 words 40% (due mid semester), and a written-up project of 2500 words 60% (due at the end of the semester).
Prescribed Texts	D Cameron, Working with spoken discourse. SAGE publications 2001.

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