Analysis of professional text and discourse
Analysis of professional text and discourse
No class on the 9th, next and last class on the 16th.
Readings for Week 8 are posted, Miriama leads on Drew et al., Karen on Chen (unusual and interesting TED talk).
As usual, send a non-trivial question for each paper to the discussion leader by Monday, noon, the leader emails me the NTQs by Mon, 6pm.
Prepare a short (4 mins) presentation of the results for your term project (graded).
Syllabus
Links
- A paper describing Eskimo snow words hoax by G. Pullum
- Software for speech transcription:
- If you want to analyze spoken interaction and have no data, here is a link to a transcript and a sound file of a rather long conversation between 3 people (1 male 2 females). NB: The sound file is huge (140MB)!!
Suplementary Texts and Readings
Guidelines for paper presentations and discussion leading
general: identify the main point(s), list the arguments used to support these points, and present your evaluation of those arguments
discuss the methodology of data collection and analysis (ask me if in doubt)
prepare a handout
discuss non-trivial questions
Guidelines for non-trivial questions
general: read the paper carefully, make notes
Try to link the issues in the paper to things we discuss or to other papers
Examples of good non-trivial questions/comments
- I think/know/we read,.../ X, this paper mentions Y, I am not sure how are X and Y related
- The author argues X and uses data Y. I think that Y might not be good for answering X because Z
Examples of trivial (=bad) questions
- What does X mean?
- I think this paper is difficult to comprehend
- The text mentions analysis of type X. Should we use it in our own analysis?
Week 1 Introduction
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
- Presenting term project ideas
Week 7
Week 8