Analysing Talk and Text: List of Lectures and Seminars

Please also see the 'home page' for this course (the link is on the left). There I explain the aims of the course, and what it will involve.

Lecture 1: Social science and language, and a brief account of Speech Act Theory

Seminar: General discussion and orientation to the course
Reading: Nothing special for this seminar, as it is the first one.

Lecture 2: Pragmatics II: The Co-operative Principle

Seminar: Discussion of Grice's cooperative principle & maxims
Reading: The section on the Cooperative principle in any of the Pragmatics introductory texts listed in the Readings (see link at left side of pagee)

Lecture 3: Conversation Analysis I: Its sociological roots

Seminar: What CA started out wanting to do
Reading: The introductory chapters of any of the CA texts that I list in the Readings, preferably Hutchby and Wooffitt chapter 1.

Lecture 4: Conversation Analysis II: The Basics

Seminar: Exercises in seeing conversational structures and sequences
Reading: More reading in Hutchby and Wooffitt

Lecture 5: Working through the 'CA Tutorial' - transcription 1

Seminar: discussion of 'context' - what do we leave out in transcription? 
Reading: read the background to transcription in Hutchby and Wooffitt

Lecture 6: Working through the 'CA Tutorial' - transcription 2

Seminar: more on transcription from the CA tutorial
Reading: read the background to transcription in Hutchby and Wooffitt

Lecture 7: Working through the 'CA Tutorial' - analyses

Seminar: Discussion of 'teasing' and 'noticing'
Reading: read up on 'noticing' in a reference I will give you

Lecture 8: Categories in talk - introduction

Seminar: Discussion of categories and identity
Reading: Chapter 1 of Antaki and Widdicombe 'Identities in talk'

Lecture 9: Categories in talk - examples

Seminar: Work with data extracts
Reading: Appropriate chapters of Antaki and Widdicombe 'Identities in talk' (selected in the previous week)

Lecture 10: Discourse Analysis

Seminar: What's the difference between CA and DA?
Reading: Iñiguez, chapter 3

Lecture 11: Discourse Analysis 2

Seminar: Further discussion of methods, and a consideration of Critical Discourse Analysis.
Reading: Iñiguez chapter 3

Lecture 12: Review

Seminar: Review of the course
Reading: Read over your lecture notes