Academics

Course Overview

The focus of this course is a comparison among six dominant approaches to the analysis of discourse: pragmatics, speech act theory, conversational analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, ethnography of communication, and variation analysis, with close examination of different kinds of sign language discourse.

All first year Linguistics MA courses, or permission of instructor

Program: Linguistics

Credit: 3

Other Courses

LIN-573

Corpus Linguistics

A corpus is a large collection of machine-readable…

Linguistics

LIN-573

Corpus Linguistics

A corpus is a large collection of machine-readable…

Linguistics

LIN-855

Language Typology

In this course we survey the range of…

Linguistics

Credits 3

LIN-860

Language Variation

An examination of analytical methods used in the…

Linguistics

Credits 3

LIN-880

Guided Research Project

This course is required to be taken twice,…

Linguistics

Credits 3

LIN-883

Dissertation Concept Paper

This course serves as a transition from students'…

Linguistics

Credits 3