AJ22061 Authentic English Conversation

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2008
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 2 credit(s) (plus 3 credits for an exam). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Ludmila Urbanová, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Jeffrey Alan Vanderziel, B.A.
Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Tomáš Hanzálek
Timetable
Mon 15:00–16:35 G22
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 20 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/20, only registered: 0/20
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
The Cooperative Principle and the Politeness Principle in authentic conversation. Syntactic structure of authentic conversation. Semantic indeterminacy in authentic conversation. Analysis of texts from the London-Lund Corpus of Spoken English with regard to different conversation genres: face-to-face conversation, telephone conversation, interviews.
Syllabus
  • The course structure is based on socio-cultural interpretation of selected texts of English conversation genres. The course pursues the study of discourse strategies and other discourse features, paying due attention to social and cultural aspects of communication. Social role, status and degree of formality are the main indicators of the relevant discourse type. Culture-specific aspects are taken into consideration as well.
Literature
  • YULE, George. Pragmatics. First published. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996, xiv, 138. ISBN 0194372073. info
  • HALLIDAY, M. A. K. Spoken and written language. 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989, xvi, 109 s. ISBN 0-19-437153-0. info
  • LEECH, Geoffrey N. Principles of pragmatics. First published. New York: Longman, 1983, xii, 250. ISBN 0582551102. info
Assessment methods
Seminar; Assessment: presentations in the class, essay at the end of the term
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2000, Spring 2001, Spring 2002, Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Autumn 2004, Autumn 2005, Autumn 2006, Spring 2008, Autumn 2013.
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