ED32520 - DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

Module Identifier	ED32520
Module Title	DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
Academic Year	2002/2003
Co-ordinator	Mr Robert Morris Jones
Semester	Intended for use in future years
Next year offered	N/A
Next semester offered	N/A
Pre-Requisite	ED10310 recommended as an introduction to the study of language
Course delivery	Lecture	10 Hours 10 x 2 hour sessions (plus a reading week) of mixed teaching style: formal teaching followed by seminar/tutorial/workshop sessions.
Assessment	Semester Assessment	Course Work: 2 assignments of 2,500 words each (or approved equivalent)	100%
	Supplementary Assessment	All failed or missing elements of assessment to be re-taken or made good.
Further details	http://www.aber.ac.uk/education/Undgrad/Modsae/Ed31820/ed32520.html

Learning outcomes

On the successful completion of this module, students should:

be aware of the principles and methods of discourse analysis in Linguistics;
have developed practical skills to analyse written and spoken texts;
be able to conduct independent investigation and discussion of various issues in the subject.

Brief description

This module introduces students to the linguistic study of the characteristics of spoken and written texts. It examines in detail selected aspects of the major themes of coherence and cohesion in texts.

Aims

To introduce the principles and methods of discourse analysis in Linguistics;
To develop practical skills through the analysis of texts;
To conduct independent investigation and discussion of various issues in the subject.

Content

The lectures will be based on the following topics:

Introduction to the discourse setting: text and context
Cohesion
Sentence relationships
Conversational exchange
Information structure
Topics
Early stylistic analysis and sociolinguistics
Inference and coherence

Tutorial / seminar work will be based:

partly on additional themes which individual students will investigate and present to the rest of the class,
and partly on pursuing in further detail selected themes form the lectures.

Reading Lists

Preliminary Readings
Brown, Gillian and George Yule.. (1983) Discourse Analysis. Cambridge University Press
Stubbes, Michael. (1983) Discourse Analysis. Basil Blackwell