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THE TEACHER’S SYLLABUS (2014 - 2015)

Module: Discourse Analysis


Level: 1ST /2nd Year Master
Semesters: 1/2/3
Instructor: Chaouki
Course Description and overall goals

Designed to appeal to a graduate LMD audience in EFL, this three-semester course examines some of the fundamental ideas of Discourse Analysis. Lectures cover a variety of major
themes and issues under DA such as, history of discourse analysis, register analysis, linguistic elements in discourse, cohesion, coherence, speech acts, etc. The course builds on the LMD
‘Licence’ course.

MAIN OBJECTIVES (specific, measurable, time-bound)

1. To introduce M-students to as a sub-branch of DA.

2. To enable M-students to develop an integrated understanding of this branch of knowledge, culminating in proposals for research that
could help advance their understanding in this area of study.

3. To prepare M-students to act as researchers and professionals (future teachers) in the field of DA.
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WEEK BY WEEK / DAY BY DAY

Sem. M W Theme Topic Lesson objective(s) Materials Delivery/


N° Engagement
1 Oct 1 Definitions and background As stated above See bibliography Lecture

Structuralist view (Sapir)

Communicative view (Widdowson)

2 History of Discourse analysis As stated above See bibliography Lecture

Sapirian Model

Register analysis model (Crystal & Davy,

Halliday) Widdowsonian model

3 Text and Discourse As stated above See bibliography Lecture

Types of texts

4 Linguistic elements in discourse As stated above See bibliography Lecture

Phonological, Grammatical, Lexical elements

Cohesion : Reference (anaphora, cataphora)

Substitution/Ellipsis/ Conjunction

Lexical cohesion (reiteration and collocation)

Nov 1 Information structure/ Thematization and As stated above See bibliography Lecture

Rhematization/Given and new information

Propositional development
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2 Coherence : underlying meaning relationships As stated above See bibliography Lecture


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(Illocutionary development)

3 Making sense of discourse As stated above See bibliography Lecture

4 Non-linguistic elements in discourse As stated above See bibliography Lecture

Dec 1 Discourse Context/World Context As stated above See bibliography Lecture

2 The role of Context in the interpretation of As stated above See bibliography Lecture

Discourse

3 Winter leave

4 Winter leave

2 Jan 1 Exams

2 Schematic knowledge As stated above See bibliography Lecture

3 The ethnography of speaking As stated above See bibliography Lecture

4 The speech community As stated above See bibliography Lecture

Feb 1 The speech event As stated above See bibliography Lecture

2 Speech acts (Acts of communication) As stated above See bibliography Lecture

Felicity conditions

3 Discourse analysis and language teaching As stated above See bibliography Lecture

4 Developing discourse competence As stated above See bibliography Lecture


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Mar 1 Modes of discourse processing As stated above See bibliography Lecture


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Bottom-up and top-down processing

2 Norms and interaction As stated above See bibliography Lecture

Apr 1 Conversional analysis As stated above See bibliography Lecture

2 Developing language skills: a discourse As stated above See bibliography Lecture

analysis perspective

3 Listening As stated above See bibliography Lecture

4 Listening As stated above See bibliography Lecture

Mai 1 Reading As stated above See bibliography Lecture

2 Reading As stated above See bibliography Lecture

3 Oct 1 Reading As stated above See bibliography Lecture

2 Speaking As stated above See bibliography Lecture

3 Speaking As stated above See bibliography Lecture

4 Writing As stated above See bibliography Lecture

Nov 1 Writing As stated above See bibliography Lecture


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2 Intercultural communication As stated above See bibliography Lecture


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3 Critical discourse analysis As stated above See bibliography Lecture

4 Text-linguistics: Introduction As stated above See bibliography Lecture

Dec 1 Text-linguistics : Standards of textuality As stated above See bibliography Lecture

2 Text-linguistics : Standards of textuality As stated above See bibliography Lecture

(Continuation)

3 Winter leave

4 Winter leave

ASSESSMENT (Grading policy)

Formative (Qizzes) & Summative (mid-term exam) modes of assessment

REQUIRED TEXTS (Bibliography)


Brown, G. and Yule, G. (1983) Discourse Analysis. Cambridge: CUP.
Carrell, P. (1982) ‘Cohesion Is Not Coherence’. TESOL Quarterly, Vol. 16/ 4,
479 – 488
Celce-Murcia, M. & Olshtain E. (2000) Discourse and Context in Language
Teaching: A Guide for Language Teachers. Cambridge: CUP.
Cook G. (1989) Discourse. OUP
Coulthard M. (1977) An Introduction to Discourse Analysis. London: Longman
Crystal, D. and D. Davy (1969) Investigating English style. London: Longman
Gardner R. (1985) ‘Discourse Analysis: Implications for language teaching, with particular reference to casual conversation’ in Kinsella V. Cambridge Language Teaching Surveys 3,
Cambridge: CUP.
Goodin, G. and Perkins, K. (1982) ‘Discourse Analysis and the Art of
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Coherence’ College English, Vol. 44/1: 55.


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Harris, Z. S. (1952) ‘Discourse Analysis’ in Language, Vol. 28, 1-30.


Hatch, E. (1992) Discourse and Language Education. Cambridge: CUP.
Hoey, M. (1983) On The Surface of Discourse. London: Allen and Unwin.
Larsen-Freeman, D. (ed.) (1980) Discourse Analysis in Second Language
Research. Rowley. Mass: Newbury House.
McCarthy, M. (1991) Discourse Analysis for Language Teachers. Cambridge: CUP
Nunan, D. (1993) Introducing Discourse Analysis. London: Penguin Books.
Prince, E. F. (1988) 'Discourse analysis: a part of the study of linguistic
competence'. In Newmeyer 1988, Vol. II, pp. 164-182
Riley, P. (1985) ‘When communication breaks down, levels of coherence in
discourse’ in Riley P. Discourse and Learning (ed.): Longman.
Schiffrin, D et al (2001) The Handbook of Discourse Analysis. Blackwell Publishers.
Swales, J. M. (1990) Genre Analysis: English in academic and research settings.
Cambridge: CUP.
Widdowson, H.G (1973a) An Applied Linguistic Approach To Discourse Analysis. Unpublished Ph.D. thesis. Edinburgh University.
Widdowson, H.G (1973b) ‘Directions in the Teaching of Discourse’ in Brumfit, C.
J. and Johnson, K.: The Communicative Approach to Language Teaching.
Oxford: OUP 1979.
Widdowson, H.G (2007) Discourse Analysis. OUP.
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