Course code

GRA7233.HT

old course code

Course title in Estonian

Pragmaatika inglise diskursuse analüüsis

Course title in English

Pragmatics in English Discourse Analysis

ECTS credits

6.0

Assessment form

Examination

lecturer of 2023/2024 Spring semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

lecturer of 2024/2025 Autumn semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

Course aims

Give an overview of traditional and contemporary approaches to the pragmatics of English discourse analysis, discussing it from linguistic, socio-cultural, text and context as well as diachronic and synchronic aspect. Provide a scientific view of both theoretical and applied angles of pragmatics, thereby achieving an up-to-date and systematic treatment of different types of discourse. Analyse peculiarities of English discourse from the non-native learner/ teacher perspective. View English discourse pragmatics as modern interdisciplinary science.
The course is delivered in English. The minimum language level necessary for participation – C1.

Brief description of the course

The course is a combination of lectures and seminars. The course will be delivered online via Zoom. During the course, the following topics are covered: the concept of English discourse analysis pragmatics, its main terms and theoretical and application signposts; discourse analysis approaches including pedagogical and linguistic approach, conversation analysis, genre analysis, multimodal pragmatics, etc,; discourse structure, discourse markers, speech acts, silence, etc.; discourse types and domains, including pragmatics in classroom discourse. The students will be become aware of how the contxt defines text content and stucture, what the main characteristic features of diffent types of English discourse are and what their relationship to the learner’s first language pragmatics is.
Assessment: Exam

Week Topics
1. Introduction. Unlocking the Text.
2. Text Characteristics. Text Cohesion
3. Text Coherence.
4. Seminar: Ch. 1. What is discourse analysis?
5. Spoken Texts.
6. Seminar: Ch. 2. Discourse analysis and grammar.
7. Classroom Texts. Learner Texts.
8. Seminar: Ch. 5. Spoken language.
9. Literary Texts and Loaded Texts.
10. Seminar: Ch. 3. Discourse analysis and vocabulary.
11. Texts in Context.
12. Seminar: Ch.6. Written language.
13. Revision for the Exam.
14. Exam.

Learning outcomes in the course

Upon completing the course the student:
- will have an understanding of the main terms of discourse pragmatics and of traditional and contemporary approaches to the pragmatics of English discourse analysis from linguistic, socio-cultural, text and context as well as diachronic and synchronic aspect;
- can identify and explain how the contxt defines text content and stucture in English discourse;
- will know what the main characteristic features of diffent types of English discourse are and be able to compare and contrast them to their first language pragmatics.

Teacher

Ene Alas

Additional information

Independent work will consist in reading and summarising relevant research articles, independent pragmatic analysis of different text types, comarison of English texts to those written in the students’ first language, preparation for seminars and the final exam.

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