AJ5_AKJA Conversation Analysis

Faculty of Education
Autumn 2003
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
Wed 13:35–15:20 učebna 60
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
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.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 1999, Autumn 2000, Autumn 2001.
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