EL4252 Weekly Readings

Weekly Readings

In most of the topics, there will be a range of things that are available. I will underline the main reading; the other readings are for students who want to explore the topic further.

Week 1

Deborah Cameron (2001), Working with Spoken Discourse (London: Sage, 2001) [In LumiNUS]

Ronald Carter and Michael McCarthy (1997), Exploring spoken English (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)

Michael McCarthy (1998), Spoken language and applied linguistics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)

Malcolm Coulthard (1985), An introduction to discourse analysis (London: Longman), Ch 1 [PE1422Cou]

Gillian Brown and George Yule (1983), Discourse analysis (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) [P302Bro], pp. 14–19

M. A. K. Halliday (2004), ‘The spoken language corpus: a foundation for grammatical theory’, in Karin Aijmer & Bengt Altenberg, Advances in Corpus Linguistics (Amsterdam: Rodopi), pp. 11–38 [In LumiNUS]

——— (1985), Spoken and written language (Geelong, Victoria: Deakin University Press,) [P41Hal], Ch. 5

Sara Mills (1997), Discourse (London: Routledge) [P302Mil]

Walter Ong (2002), Orality and literacy (London: Routledge) [P35Ong 2002], Ch. 3

Deborah Schiffrin (1994), Approaches to discourse (Oxford: Blackwell), [P302Schi] Ch. 2

Michael Stubbs (1983), Discourse analysis (Oxford: Blackwell), Ch. 1 [P302Stu]

Ronald Wardhaugh (1985), How conversation works (Oxford: Blackwell), Ch. 1 [P95.45War]

Week 2

Jane Edwards (2003), ‘The transcription of discourse’, in Deborah Schriffrin, Deborah Tannen & Heidi E Hamilton (eds), The Handbook of Discourse Analysis (Oxford: Blackwell) pp 321-348 [In LumiNUS]

David Langford (1994), Analysing talk: investigating verbal interaction in English (London: Macmillan,), Ch 3.

Deborah Schiffrin (1994), Approaches to discourse (Oxford: Blackwell), Appendixes 1 and 2 (pp. 420–438)

Michael Stubbs (1983), Discourse analysis (Oxford: Blackwell,), Ch. 11.

Alison Wray et al. (1998), Project in linguistics: a practical guide to researching language (London: Arnold), Chs. 12 and 18.

Week 3

Suzanne Eggins (2004), An introduction to systemic functional linguistics, 2nd edn (London: Continuum), Chs. 3 and 4. [First edn (1994) is OK too – Ch 2 and 3.] [In LumiNUS]

Ruqaiya Hasan (1996), Ways of saying: ways of meaning (London: Cassell) – the relevant chapters are Ch. 3 and Ch. 8 (beginning sections) [Ch 3 in LumiNUS]

——, Discourse on discourse (Wollongong, NSW: Applied Linguistics Association of Australia, 1985), pp. 25–29

Michael A K Halliday and Ruqaiya Hasan (1985), Language, context, and text: aspects of language in a social-semiotic perspective (Geelong, Victoria: Deakin University), Chs. 4 and 6 [In LumiNUS]

Michael O’Donnell (1999), ‘Context in dynamic modelling’, in Mohsen Ghadessy (ed.), Text and context in functional linguistics (Amsterdam: Benjamins), pp. 63–100. Available online: http://www.wagsoft.com/Papers/ODonContext.pdf

Scott Thornbury and Diana Slade (2006), Conversation: from description to pedagogy (Cambridge: CUP), Ch. 5 (skim), Call No. P95.45 Tho 2006

Eija Ventola (1987), The structure of social interaction: a systemic approach to the semiotics of service encounters (London: Frances).Ideally, you should read all of Chapters 3 and 4, but specifically, read: Section 3.1 (pp. 50–57).

——— (2005), ‘Revisiting service encounter genre – some reflections’, Folia Linguistica XXXIX/1–2: 19–43

Week 4

Susan Kay Donaldson (1979), ‘One kind of speech act: how do we know when we are conversing?’, Semiotica 28: 259–299 [In RBR, Call No. I-2839].

Ruqaiya Hasan (1996), Ways of saying: ways of meaning (London: Cassell), Ch. 3 [In LumiNUS]

John Wilson (1989), On the boundaries of conversation (Oxford: Pergamon), Ch. 1 (pp. 7–14), Ch. 2, Ch. 3, Ch. 4.You might also want to read Chapters 5 and 6 out of interest, which (be assured) are not difficult.[In LumiNUS, Call No. P95.45Wil]

Eija Ventola (1979), ‘The structure of casual conversations in English’, Journal of pragmatics 3: 267–98

Weeks 5, 7 and 8

Penelope Brown and Stephen Levinson (1987), Politeness: some universals in language usage (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). In RBR, Call No. P40.5Eti.B. Read pages 1–22 [read this last], 55–91.You might want to skim through section 5 (pp. 91–227) for some of the politeness strategies. [In LumiNUS]

Bousfield, Derek (2007), Impoliteness in Interaction (Amsterdam: John Benjamins)

Culpeper, Jonathan (1996), ‘Towards an anatomy of impoliteness’, Journal of Pragmatics 25: 349-367.

——— (1998), ‘(Im)politeness in dramatic dialogue’, in J Culpeper et al. (eds), Exploring the language of drama: from text to context (London: Routledge), pp. 83–95.

——— (2005), ‘Impoliteness and The Weakest Link’, Journal of Politeness Research 1(1): 35–72.

——— (2011), Impoliteness: using language to cause offence (London: Routledge). [Parts in LumiNUS]

——— and Claire Hardaker (2017), ‘Impoliteness’, in J Culpeper et al (eds), The Palgrave Handbook of (Im)politeness (London: Palgrave), Ch 9, pp 119–225 [In LumiNUS]

Joan Cutting (2002), Pragmatics and discourse (London: Routledge), unit A6

Erving Goffman (1967), ‘On face-work: an analysis of ritual elements in social interaction’, in Erving Goffman, Interaction ritual: essays on face-to-face behaviour (New York: Pantheon Books,), pp. 5–45, Call No. HM291Gof

Geoffrey N Leech (2014), The pragmatics of politeness (New York: Oxford University Press), Ch 4 (the library has the e-book)

——— (2003), ‘Towards an anatomy of politeness’, International Journal of Pragmatics XIV (Nov 2003): 101–124

——— (1983), Principles of pragmatics (London: Longman), Ch. 6, Call No. P99.4Pra.L

Haugh, Michael (2014), ‘Jocular mockery as interactional practice in everyday Anglo-Australian conversation’, Australian Journal of Linguistics 34(1): 93-123. [In LumiNUS]

——— & Derek Bousfield (2012), ‘Mock impoliteness, jocular mockery and jocular abuse in Australian and British English’, Journal of Pragmatics 44:1099-1114. [In LumiNUS]

Jenny Thomas (1995), Meaning in interaction (London: Longman), section 6.3

Richard J Watts (2003), Politeness (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) [Chs 6–7, 9–10 in LumiNUS]

Richard J Watts, Sachiko Ide and Konrad Ehlich (eds) (1992), Politeness in language: studies in its history, theory and practice (Berlin: Mouton) – the introduction is useful

Week 9–11

Joan Cutting (2002), Pragmatics and discourse (London: Routledge), unit A4

Malcolm Coulthard and David Brazil (1992), ‘Exchange structure’, in Malcolm Coulthard (ed.), Advances in spoken discourse analysis (London: Routledge, 1992), Chs 3, pp 51-78 [Call No. P302Adv] [In LumiNUS]

———, An introduction to discourse analysis, 2nd edn (London: Longman, 1985), pp. 120–45 [Call No. PE1422Cou]

——— and Martin Montgomery (eds.), Studies in discourse analysis (London: Routledge, 1981) [In RBR, Call No. P302Stu] — this volume contains Malcolm Coulthard and David Brazil, ‘Exchange structure’, pp. 82–106

Gillian Francis and Susan Hunston (1992), ‘Analysing everyday conversation’, in Malcolm Coulthard, Advances in spoken discourse analysis (London: Routledge), pp. 123–61 [In LumiNUS]

Jay L. Lemke (1985), Using language in the classroom (Geelong, Victoria: Deakin University Press) [In RBR., Call No. P41Lem]

J R Martin and David Rose (2007), Working with discourse: meaning beyond the clause, 2nd edn (London: Continuum), Ch. 7 [In LumiNUS]

Mick Short (1996), Exploring the language of poems, plays and prose (London: Longman), Ch. 6, Call No. PE1421 Sho

John McH Sinclair (?1991), The structure of teacher talk, Discourse Analysis Monograph No. 15 (Birmingham: English Language Research, undated)

John McH Sinclair and R Malcolm Coulthard (1985), Towards an analysis of discourse: the English used by teachers and pupils (London: Oxford University Press), Chapters 1, 2 and 3

John McH Sinclair and R Malcolm Coulthard (1992), ‘Towards an analysis of discourse’, in Malcolm Coulthard (ed), Advances in Spoken Discourse Analysis (London: Routledge) Ch 1, pp 1-34 [In LumiNUS]

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