Discourse and Pragmatics

Schedule of Work

  Topics Reading/Assignments
Week 1 Solving Problems with Discourse Analysis

 

 M. Stubbe et al., 'Multiple Discourse Analyses of a Workplace Interaction'

Field Investigation #1: Selecting a Site of Investigation
Week 2 Discourse, Action and Social Practices

 

 R. Jones and S. Norris, 'Discourse as Action/Discourse in Action'

Field Investigation #2: Site Survey: Actions and Social Practices
Week 3 The Ethnography of Communication

 

 Cameron, 'The Ethnography of Speaking'

Field Investigation #3: Analyzing a Speech Event
Week 4
Genre and Discourse Community

 

 V.K. Bhatia, From Genre Analysis

Field Investigation #4: Genre Analysis
Week 5 Textual Analysis
J.P. Gee, 'Grammar in Communication

Field Investigation #5: Textual Analysis
Week 6

 

Speech Act Theory and Pragmatics

 J.L. Austin, 'How to Do Things with Words'

H.P. Grice, 'Logic and Conversation'

Field Investigation #6: Analyzing Speech Exchanges

Submit Field Investigations #1-5  
Week 7  

Reading Week

 

 Catch up on your reading or read ahead.
Week 8

Politeness Theory

 

 Brown and Levinson, 'Politeness: Some Universals in Language Usage'

Field Investigation #7: Analyzing Politeness
Week 9

 Conversation Analysis

 

 Drew and Heritage, From Talk at Work

Field Investigation #8: Analyzing a Conversation
Week 10

 

Interactional Sociolinguistics

 J. Gumperz, 'Discourse Strategies'

Field Investigation #9: Analyzing Interaction and Social Identity

Submit Article Critique
Week 11
Multimodal Discourse Analysis

 

 Jewitt and Jones, 'Multimodal Discourse Analysis'

Field Investigation #10: Multimodal Discourse Analysis
Week 12
Critical Discourse Analysis

 

 T. van Dijk, 'Critical Discourse Analysis'

Field Investigation #11: Discourse and Power 
 

Week 13

 

  Review Test

Field Investigation #12: Reflection and Retrospective
Week 14 Submit Field Investigations #6-12

 

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