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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-827

Cognitive Linguistics III

This seminar is the third course in the…

Linguistics

Credits 3

LIN-842

Discourse Analysis: Conversation

The purpose of this course is to introduce…

Linguistics

Credits 3

LIN-843

Discourse Analysis: Narrative

The purpose of this course is to introduce…

Linguistics

Credits 3

LIN-850

Historical Linguistics

This course focuses on language change. Topics include…

Linguistics

Credits 3

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