The Study of Language Beyond the Sentence

Argumento de The Study of Language Beyond the Sentence

1. TEXT GRAMMAR AND DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
1.1. Introduction
1.2. Sentence grammar, text-linguistics, and the description of discourse
1.3. Pragmatics and the study of discourse
1.3.1. Speech act theory
1.3.2. Gricean pragmatics
1.3.3. Discourse analysis
1.3.4. Conversation analysis
1.3.5. Interactional sociolinguistics: politeness theory
1.4. Definitions of text and discourse
1.5. Norms of textual communication
1.6. Exercises
1.7. Further reading
1.8. Topics for discussion

2. TEXTUAL ORGANIZATION
2.1. System and text
2.2. The context of situation
2.3. Structure and texture
2.4. Text and communication
2.5. Text types
2.6. Registers, dialects and genres
2.7. Exercises
2.8. Further reading
2.9. Topics for discussion

3. COHESION AND COHERENCE
3.1. Cohesion and coherence
3.2. Conjunction
3.3. Reference
3.4. Substitution and ellipsis
3.5. Lexical cohesion
3.6. Examples
3.6.1. Dramatic dialogue
3.6.2. Speech
3.6.3. Expository essay
3.6.4. Advertisement
3.7. Exercises
3.8. Further reading
3.9. Topics for discussion

4. THEMATIC AND INFORMATION STRUCTURES
4.1. The clause as message: thematic structures
4.2. The concepts of given and new: intonation and syntax
4.3. Information status
4.4. Thematic connection and discourse strategies
4.5. Exercises
4.6. Further reading
4.7. Topics for discussion

5. FROM TEXT GRAMMAR TO DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
5.1. Semantics and pragmatics
5.2. Definitions of discourse
5.2.1. The formalist definition of discourse
5.2.2. The functional definition of discourse
5.2.3. Discourse as utterances
5.3. Discourse and communication
5.3.1. Context in pragmatics
5.3.2. Models of communication
5.4. Exercises
5.5. Further reading
5.6. Topics for discussion

6. SPEECH ACT THEORY
6.1. Origins and development: Austen and Searle
6.2. Acts and rules
6.3. Types of speech acts
6.4. Indirect speech acts
6.5. The organization of communicative interaction
6.6. Exercises
6.7. Further reading
6.8. Topics for discussion

7. CONVERSATIONAL IMPLICATURE
7.1. Gricean pragmatics
7.1.1. Speaker meaning and sentence meaning
7.1.2. The Cooperative Principle
7.1.3. Meaning, implicature and entailment
7.1.4. Pragmatics and the analysis of discourse
7.2. Relevance
7.2.1. Inference, explicature and implicature
7.2.2. The role of implicatures in comprehension
7.3. Exercises
7.4. Further reading
7.5. Topics for discussion

8. DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
8.1. The study of conversation
8.2. Classroom interaction
8.3. The analysis of casual conversation
8.3.1. Revising Burton’s framework
8.3.2. Analysing fictional dialogue and naturally-occurring conversation
8.4. Exercises
8.5. Further reading
8.6. Topics for discussion

9. CONVERSATION ANALYSIS
9.1. The sociological perspective of conversation
9.2. Turn-taking
9.3. Adjacency pairs
9.4. Preference organization
9.5. Pre-sequences
9.6. Methodology in conversation analysis
9.7. Exercises
9.8. Further reading
9.9. Topics for discussion

10. THEORIES OF POLITENESS
10.1. Politeness and maxims
10.2. Politeness as face management
10.3. Politeness as conversational contract
10.4. Politeness as functional adjustment
10.5. The frame-based approach to politeness (FBA)
10.6. An illustration
10.7. The study of language in context
10.7. Exercises
10.8. Further reading
10.9. Topics for discussion

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