| CODE | ENG2098 | |||||||||
| TITLE | Discourse of English | |||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 02 - Years 2, 3 in Modular Undergraduate Course | |||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | Not Applicable | |||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | |||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | English | |||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | The Discourse of English I To enable students to develop an awareness of the variety of ways in which English speaking people interact. Content Covered: We take conversation and other forms of talk for granted most of the time, but our interaction with others is undeniably one of the most important aspects of our lives. It is a co-operative activity and usually involves two or more people. Unfortunately, we do not usually appreciate how actual speech is organised and we only discover this when we attempt to classify the different components of conversation. It might come as a surprise to many when they hear that ‘conversation is hard work!’ The scientific approach to the study of conversation though quite recent has undergone a lot of research. Owing to the vastness of this discipline, discourse analysis is interdisciplinary and its six approaches reflect this. This study-unit will first discuss the different approaches to conversation and the work of scholars central to the development of each approach. Though discourse analysts usually focus on naturally occurring conversation, students will also be given the opportunity to choose to analyse dialogic data from English contemporary novels and Shakespearean plays. In addition, several examples from a variety of spoken and written sources are used to examine and explain how conversation works. The Discourse of English II Students will use the various frameworks of discourse. This is a higher-level study-unit regarding the study of conversation and how it works. The study-unit structure will consist of a series of seminars specifically dealing with conversational styles in English in different settings and with different people. As E.M. Forster in A Passage to India aptly put it, ‘A pause in the wrong place, an intonation misunderstood and a whole conversation went awry’ should be avoided as they may have terrible consequences The students will also be given a set of topics and they will be asked to give a presentation on their chosen topics. Reading List: Discourse of English I Schriffrin, D. 1994. Approaches to Discourse Analysis. Oxford: Basil Blackwell Tannen, D. 1994. Gender and Discourse. Oxford: Oxford University Press Gumperz, J. 1985. Discourse Strategies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press Discourse of English II Sacks, H. 1995. Lectures on Conversation. Oxford: Basil Blackwell Schriffrin, D. 1994. Approaches to Discourse Analysis. Oxford: Basil Blackwell Wodak, R. 1996. Disorders of Discourse. Essex: Addison Wesley Longman |
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| ADDITIONAL NOTES | Pre-requisite study-unit: ENG1080 - English in Society |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | |||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Lydia Sciriha |
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