AJ22061 Sociolinguistics: Authentic English Conversation

Faculty of Arts
Spring 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
Tue 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 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.
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 (in Czech)
Seminar; Assessment:
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, Autumn 2008, Autumn 2013.
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