Academic Catalog

ELT551 THE PRAGMATICS OF SPOKEN INTERACTION

Course Code: 8200551
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): 3(3-0)
ECTS Credit: 8.0
Department: English Language Teaching
Language of Instruction: English
Level of Study: Graduate
Course Coordinator: Assist.Prof.Dr MÜGE GÜNDÜZ
Offered Semester: Fall or Spring Semesters.

Course Content

Introduction to discourse analysis; structure of spoken interaction; socio-pragmatic constraints on interaction; speech act analysis; cross-cultural speech act analysis; interlanguage pragmatic development; coherence in spoken discourse; prosody and non-verbal communication; backchanneling; introduction to the conversation analytic approach; speech events and classroom discourse; corpus-based approaches to cross-cultural speech act and speech event analysis.