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2012/13 Taught Postgraduate Module Catalogue

COMM5110M Discourse Analysis (Communication Studies)

30 creditsClass Size: 20

Module manager: Dr Bethan Davies
Email: b.l.davies@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) View Timetable

Year running 2012/13

This module is not approved as an Elective

Objectives

The aim of this module is to acquaint students with different methods for analysing discourse data by drawing examples from a wide range of discourse types such as written texts of various kinds, conversational material (recorded or not), transcripts of classroom exchanges etc. An attempt will be made to show that there is more to using language and communicating successfully than producing correct sentences.

Syllabus

This module will cover the following topics:

- A functional approach to language, discourse analysis as the analysis of language in use and as an attempt to see language as a social phenomenon;
- language and context, linguistic context and pragmatic context;
- criteria for the identification of a text, cohesion and coherence, different types of cohesion, presuppositions;
- conversational implicatures, literal and non-literal meanings;
- the theory of speech acts, indirect speech acts;
- the analysis of conversational structure, turn-taking, adjacency pairs and conditional relevance;
- the analysis of classroom discourse and the Birmingham method; the role of intonation and kinesics.

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Lecture	17	1.00	17.00
Seminar	11	1.00	11.00
Private study hours			272.00
Total Contact hours			28.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			300.00

Private study

Private study will be spent preparing for lectures and assessments

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Essay	2 x 3,000 word essays	100.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 19/06/2013

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