Communicative text analysis

I am available to sign your grades on Tuesday May 27th, 12noon - 3pm.

Reminder: Continue working on your projects, refine your research questions or hypotheses, do literature review, transcribe and code your data, analyze. Please, keep sending your non-trivial questions by Monday afternoon.

Syllabus
Guidelines for paper presentations and discussion leading Readings for the next 4 weeks (links to the papers are below)
Topic Handouts Readings HWs
What is discourse? Handout #1 WeiyunHe (2002)
McCarthy_1991_Ch2
non-triv. question from Weiyun He (2002)
Discourse and grammar (vocabulary and intonation) Couper-Kuhlen (2001)
McCarthy_1991_Ch3
McCarthy_1991_Ch4
non-triv. question from Couper-Kuhlen (2001)
reader activities from McCarthy chapters
Discourse and transcription Edwards (2001)
non-triv. question from Edwards (2001)
project abstract
Accenting and information structure, given-new distinction (April 8) Handout Fowler & Housum Fowler & Housum (1987)
Bard & Aylett (1999)(Ivana)
non-triv. questions!
Discourse markers (April 15) Hirschberg & Litman (1993)
Bolden (2006) (Juraj)
Turn-taking (April 22) Beattie (1982) (Angelica)
M. Thatcher's examples
Bull & Aylett (1998) (Maria S.)
Filled pauses (April 29) Swerts (1998) (Maria D.)
Fox Tree (2003) (Andrej)
Student presentations (May 6)