PdF:AJPV_AKJA Conversation Analysis - Course Information

AJPV_AKJA Conversation Analysis

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 18:55–19:40 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

• English Language and Literature with a view to Education (programme PdF, B-SPE)
• English Language and Literature with a view to Education (programme PdF, B-TV)
• Teacher Training in Foreign Languages - English Language (programme PdF, B-SPE) (2)
• Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in English Language and Literature (programme PdF, B-SPE)
• Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in English Language and Literature (programme PdF, M-SS)
• Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in English Language and Literature (programme PdF, M-TV)
• Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in English Language and Literature (programme PdF, M-ZS4)
• Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in English Language and Literature (programme PdF, M-ZS5)
• Lower Secondary School and Language School Teacher Training in English Language (programme PdF, N-ZS) (2)

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
• SVARTVIK, Jan and Geoffrey N. LEECH. A communicative grammar of English. 2nd ed. London: Longman, 1994, xiv, 423. ISBN 058208573X. info

Assessment methods (in Czech)

Typ výuky: sem. jazyk. cvič.

Language of instruction

English

Further Comments

The course is taught annually.

• Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2007, recent)
  
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