PdF:AJPV_AKJA Conversation Analysis - Course Information
AJPV_AKJA Conversation Analysis
Faculty of EducationAutumn 2005
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/1/0. 1 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. PhDr. Renata Povolná, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
- Guaranteed by
- doc. PhDr. Renata Povolná, Ph.D.
Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Mgr. Petra Hoydenová - Timetable
- Thu 12:50–13:35 učebna 57
- Prerequisites
- This course is recommended to students in higher than the second year of their studies
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- there are 7 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
- Course objectives
- The course is for students who are interested in authentic spoken English, notably face-to-face private conversation. Texts from 'A Corpus of English Conversation' (1980) and some other sources will be analysed and, based on the differences between spoken and written English, many features typical of conversational English, such as back-channels, false-starts, hedges, discourse markers, simultaneous speech, will be discussed in great detail. Presentations based on the study of some articles from corpus linguistics, for instance, on discourse tags, comment clauses, non-fluencies, compliment formula, and expletives, will be prepared by individual students.
- Syllabus
- 1. Act of communication. Functions of language. 2. Spoken versus written language. 3. Features typical of spoken language. 4. Discourse markers. Discourse tags. 5. Comment clauses and their functions. 6. Politeness formula. Expletives. 7. Pauses. Simultaneous speech. 8. Turn-taking. Non-fluencies. 9. Face-to-face and telephone conversation. 10. Conversation and preference structure. Strategies. 11. Conversational style. Scale of formality. 12. Backchannel signals. Body language. 13. Analysis of authentic corpus material.
- Literature
- A corpus of English conversation. Edited by Jan Svartvik - Randolph Quirk. Lund: C.W.K. Gleerup, 1979, 893 s. ISBN 91-40-04740-7. info
- DEUCHAR, Margaret, Robert HOOGENRAAD and Geoffrey Neil LEECH. English grammar for today :a new introduction. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1982, xvi, 224 s. ISBN 0-333-30644-9. info
- SVARTVIK, Jan and Geoffrey N. LEECH. A communicative grammar of English. 2nd ed. London: Longman, 1994, xiv, 423. ISBN 058208573X. info
- CARTER, Ronald and Michael MCCARTHY. Exploring spoken English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997, 160 s. ISBN 0521568609. info
- Assessment methods (in Czech)
- Typ výuky: sem. jazyk. cvič.
- Language of instruction
- English
- Further Comments
- The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2005, recent)
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