Discourse and Pragmatics

Schedule of Work

  Topics Reading/Assignments
Week 1

Solving Problems with Discourse Analysis

 

Week 2

Discourse, Action and Social Practices

 

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

Field Investigation # 1
Week 3

The Ethnography of Communication

 

D. Cameron, 'The Ethnography of Speaking'
Week 4


Genre and Discourse Community

 

V.K. Bhatia, From Genre Analysis
Week 5

Textual Analysis

J.P. Gee, 'Grammar in Communication
Week 6

 

Speech Act Theory and Pragmatics

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



Week 7

 

Reading Week

 

Field Investigations # 2-6 (Choose 3)
Week 8

Politeness Theory

 

Brown and Levinson, 'Politeness: Some Universals in Language Usage'
Week 9

 Conversation Analysis

 

Drew and Heritage, From Talk at Work
Week 10

 

Interactional Sociolinguistics

J. Gumperz, 'Discourse Strategies'


Submit Article Critique
Week 11


Multimodal Discourse Analysis

 

Jewitt and Jones, 'Multimodal Discourse Analysis'

Week 12


Critical Discourse Analysis

 

T. van Dijk, 'Critical Discourse Analysis'


Field Investigations # 7-11 (Choose 3)
 

Week 13

 

Review

Test

Field Investigation #12: Reflection and Retrospective
Week 14

 

 

AssignmentsFieldwork