AJB_AKJA Conversation Analysis

Faculty of Education
Autumn 2009
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 2 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: Jana Popelková
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.
The capacity limit for the course is 18 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/18, only registered: 0/18, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/18
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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, for example MICASE (Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English) 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
  • 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
Assessment methods
Mode of teaching: seminar For getting a credit, students must attend the course on a regular basis and during the term prepare one presentation which is based on their own individual study of a topic connected with the analysis of spoken language. Then, in the credit week they are expected to come to their teacher with a piece of text on which they prove their knowledge and understanding of the structure of spoken interaction.
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: in blocks.
Note related to how often the course is taught: v pondělí 5.10. 8:00 - 13:00 a pátek 11.12. 2009 14:00 - 19:00.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 12 hodin ve 2 blocích.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016.
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