FF:AJ22061 Authentic English Conversation - Course Information

AJ22061 Authentic English Conversation

Extent and Intensity

0/2/0. 2 credit(s) (plus 2 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 13:20–14:55 G32

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

• English Language and Literature (programme FF, M-FI) (2)
• English Language and Literature (programme FF, M-HS)
• English Language and Literature (programme FF, N-FI) (2)
• English Language and Literature (programme FF, N-HS)
• Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in English Language and Literature (programme FF, N-HS3)
• Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in English Language and Literature (programme FF, N-SS) (2)
• Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in English Language and Literature (programme FF, N-SS3)

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.

• Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2006, recent)
  
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