CURSO : PRAGMATICS & DISCOURSE
TRADUCCION : PRAGMATICA Y DISCURSO
SIGLA : LET1335
CRÉDITOS : 10
MÓDULOS : 02
REQUISITOS : LET1334
CARÁCTER : MINIMUM
DISCIPLINA : LINGUISTICS
I. DESCRIPTION
The course provides fundamental theoretical concepts of Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis and their
application in a variety of discourse genres. It attempts primarily to provide students with theoretical and
methodological tools to deal with language used in context. The course covers the study of lexico-
grammatical cohesive resources, and the study of information structure, author stance, evaluation, turn-taking
system, speech acts, and politeness strategies in a variety of written and oral genres.
II. OBJECTIVES
Generals:
1. To acquiring the fundamental theoretical concepts of Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis.
2. To understanding how sentences are put together and used in actual interactions.
3. To applying these concepts to the analysis of a variety of oral and written genres.
Specifics:
1. To understand the objectives of Pragmatics Discourse Analysis, their methods and their fundamental
theoretical concepts.
2. To understand the concepts of discourse, text, register and genre.
3. To characterize the difference between oral and written language.
4. To identify the different levels of analysis: context, co-text, conversation.
5. To analyze different genres and their characteristic language features: patterns of information structure,
conjunctions, and appraisal.
6. To understand and characterize oral communicative interaction: speech events, speech acts, the
cooperative principle, conversational implicature, and presuppositions.
7. To identify, analyze and characterize politeness strategies in a variety of contexts.
III. CONTENTS
1. Pragmatics and Discourse analysis: differences and levels of analysis.
2. The difference between text and discourse, register and genre.
3. The characteristics of written and spoken language.
4. Analysis of context- exophora, deixis, intertextuality-; co-text- cohesive resources-; conversation-
exchange structure-.
5. Persuasive and narrative genres and their linguistic features.
6. Appraisal, conjunctions and information structure.
7. The pragmatics of oral communication: speech events, speech acts, the cooperative principle,
conversational implicature, presuppositions.
8. Politeness: strategies and maxims.
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IV. METHODOLOGY
- Theoretical and practical sessions.
- Evaluation of assigned readings.
- Workshops with task-solving activities.
- Student-oriented activities
- Group tutorials to supervise final research.
V. EVALUATION
- Midterm: 20%
- Class work: 10% - 5 reading checks.
- Oral presentations.
- Student-centered activity: 10% - Short essay on assigned topic
- Final exam: 30%
- Research project: 30%
VI. BIBLIOGRAPHY
Compulsory:
Arundale, Robert B. Face as relational and interactional: A communication framework
for research on face, facework, and politeness. Journal of Politeness
Research, 2: 193-216, 2006.
Bakhtin, Mikail The problem of speech genres. Jawolski, A. & N. Coupland (eds.).
The discourse Reader. London, Routledge, 2004, pp. 121-132.
Brown, George & George Yule Discourse Analysis. Cambridge, C.U.P., 2000.
Cutting, Joan Pragmatics and Discourse. London, Routledge, 2002.
Dijk, T. A. van Discourse and power. Houndsmills, Palgrave, 2008.
Fairclough, Norman Language and Power. London, Longman, 1994.
___ Language in new capitalism. Discourse and Society, 13 (2): 163-
166, 2002.
Gee, James & Michael Handford The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Analysis. London,
Routledge, 2011.
Grundy, Peter Doing Pragmatics. London and New York, Arnold Publishers,
2000.
Halliday, M. A. K. An Introduction to Functional Grammar. London, Continuum,
2004.
Halliday, M. A. K. & Ruquaya Hasan Cohesion in English. London, Longman, 1976.
Hoey, Michael Patterns of Lexis in Text. Oxford, C.U.P., 1991.
Holmes, Janet Women, Men and Politeness. London, Longman Group Ltd., 1995.
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Horn, Laurence R. & Gregory Ward The Handbook of Pragmatics. London, Blackwell Publishing,
2006.
Hyland, Ken & Brian Paltridge The Continuum Companion to Discourse Analysis. London,
Continuum, 2011.
Ishihara, Noriko & Andrew Cohen Teaching and Learning Pragmatics: when language and culture
meet. London, Longman, 2010.
Kress, G & Theo van Leeuwen Reading Images: The grammar of visual design. London,
Continuum, 2006.
Martin & Rose Working with Discourse: meaning beyond the clause. London,
Continuum, 2008.
Norrick, Neal R. Special Issue: Pragmatic markers. Journal of Pragmatics, 41 (5),
2009.
Widdowson, Henry Text, Context, Pretext: Critical Issues in Discourse Analysis.
Oxford, Blackwell, 2004.
Wooffitt, R. Conversation analysis and discourse analysis: a comparative and
critical introduction. London, Thousand Oaks, CA, Sage
Publications, 2005.
Yule, George Pragmatics. Oxford, O.U.P., 1996.
Complementary:
Bhatia, M. V. Fighting words: naming terrorists, bandits, rebels and other violent
actors. Third World Quarterly, 26 (1): 5-22, 2005.
Buefield-Burgos, R. Globalization, Education, and Discourse Political Analysis:
Ambiguity and accountability in research. International Journal of
Qualitative Studies in Education, 13 (1): 1-24, 2000.
Carter, Ronald Working with Texts: A Core Book for Language Analysis. London,
Intertext Paperback, 1997.
Celce-Murcia, Marianne & Elite Olshtain
Discourse and Context in Language Teaching. Great Britain,
C.U.P., 2000, pp. 2-17.
Crystal, David Language and the Internet. Cambridge, C.U.P., 2001.
Griffiths, Patrick An Introduction to English Semantics and Pragmatics. Edinburgh,
Edinburgh University Press, 2006.
Hatch, Evelyn Discourse and Language Education. Cambridge, C.U.P., 1992.
Jonstone, Barbara Discourse Analysis. 2? Ed. Oxford, Wiley-Blackwell, 2007.
Larsen-Freeman, D. (ed.) Discourse Analysis in Second Language Research. Rowley, MA,
Newbury House, 1980.
Lazar, M. (ed.) Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis: gender, power and ideology
in discourse. Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2005.
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Martin & White The language of Evaluation. Appraisal in English. London,
Continuum, 2005.
Mc Carthy, Michael Discourse Analysis For Language Teachers. Great Britain, C.U.P.,
1991.
___ Working with Texts. London, Routledge, 2001.
Norris, Sigrid & Rodney H. Jones Discourse in Action: Introducing Mediated Discourse Analysis.
2005.
Simpson, P. & A. Mayr Language and power: a resource book for students. London, New
York, Routledge, 2010.
Sinclair, John Corpus, Concordance, Collocation. Oxford, O.U.P., 2000.
Teo, P. The marketisation of higher education: a comparative case-study of
two universities in Singapore. Critical Approaches to Discourse
Analysis Across Disciplines, 1 (1): 95-111, 2007.
White, N. R. The customer is always right?: student discourse about higher
education in Australia. Higher Education, 54: 593-604, 2007.
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