Course Details
Country:
Netherlands
Institution:
Free University of Amsterdam
Course Title:
Discourse and Social Interaction
Course Number:
L_NCBACIW215
Course Description:
This course starts from the idea that spoken and written discourse can be studied as social action: when interacting with each other via different modes of communication, people manage to accomplish a variety of actions, such as inviting or blaming, accounting or denying matters. This course aims to develop your analytical skills to understand what it is exactly that people do when they talk in person or over the phone. You will also encounter other examples such as broadcast interviews. The focus across settings and modes of communication will be to examine how speakers accomplish whatever it is they are doing and how this influences the unfolding conversation. The analytical skills are based on the concepts and principles used in conversation analysis and reflect current research. You will analyze instances of informal talk as well as talk in institutional or organizational settings.
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
COMM 399
Attachment Files:
Studyguide (16)_13.pdf
