Course: Discourse Analysis

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Course title Discourse Analysis
Course code KAA/BDIAN
Organizational form of instruction Seminar
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction English
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Szczyrbak Magdalena Adriana, Dr. hab.
Course content
Form and function, scope of discourse analysis. Definitions of discourse, approaches to discourse analysis. Discourse analysis and grammar, discourse analysis and vocabulary. Text: coherence and cohesion. Conversational analysis. Aspects of functional sentence perspective. Constructions for highlighting information, extra-posed structures. Syntactic ambiguities. Types of syntactic deviations, discontinuities.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming), Work with text (with textbook, with book), Methods of individual activities
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to teach students to understand the English grammatical system in contrast to Czech linguistic situation. Students will be offered theoretical knowledge of discourse analysis and hyper-syntax.
Students will be able to use the knowledge of morphology, syntax and lexicology for the text analysis.
Prerequisites
unspecified
KAA/BSYN1

Assessment methods and criteria
Oral examination, Home assignment evaluation

active participation (maximum 2 classes can be missed) assignments according to instructions specified in lessons prezentation of the analysis oral exam based on the text analysis, students apply their theoretical knowledge for authentic text analysis.
Recommended literature
  • Bauer, L. and P. Trudgill. Language Myths. Penguin Books, 1998.
  • COULTHARD, M. An Introduction to Discourse Analysis. Essex: Longman, 2nd edition,ISBN 0-582-55379-2, 1985.
  • DUŠKOVÁ, L. a kol. Mluvnice současné angličtiny na pozadí češtiny. Praha: Academia, 1994.
  • DUŠKOVÁ, L. Studies in the English Language, Part 2.. Praha: Karolinum, 1999.
  • Gee, James Paul. An introduction to discourse analysis : theory and method. London: Routledge, 2005. ISBN 978-0-415-32861-6.
  • MCCARTHY, M., CARTER, R. Language as Discourse. Perspectives for Language Teaching. Essex: Longman, 3rd edition, ISBN 0-582-08424-5, 1998.
  • MCCARTHY, M. Discourse Analysis for Language Teachers. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 1996.
  • Schiffrin, Deborah. Approaches to discourse. Oxford: Blackwell, 1994. ISBN 978-0-631-16623-8.
  • Tannen, Deborah . The handbook of discourse analysis. Malden: Blackwell, 2001. ISBN 978-0-631-20596-8.
  • Widdowson, H. G. Discourse analysis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-19-438921-1.


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