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ENG223 Discourse Analysis

5.0 Summary

In this Unit, we have looked at the features of conversation that discourse analysts look at when they study the conversation. Such features include turn taking and turn allocation, insertion sequences, adjacency pairs, overlap in speech, and so forth. These features exist inmost conversations. Though as we have observed, some of them feature more in some conversations than others. For instance adjacency pairs is a very visible feature of any form of interview, such as employment interview or newspaper interview. It is also important to note that in some kinds of speech, turns are necessarily allocated by a person who has the social role to do so. For instance in a discussion, a moderator has such social role. Also in classroom discourse, the teacher determines who takes up a turn and when they do so.


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6.0 Tutor-marked Assignment

Select any written play by Wole Soyinka and explain how some of the feature of conversation discussed in this Unit manifest in the conversations.

7.0 References/Further Reading
Brazil, D. (1977) The communicative value of intonation in English. Cambridge Cambridge University Press. Ten Have, Paul (1999): Doing Conversation Analysis. A Practical Guide, Thousand Oaks Sage.
Psathas, George (1995) Conversation Analysis, Thousand Oaks Sage. Sacks, H. (1992) Lectures on conversation. 2 vols. Edited by Gail Jefferson with introductions by Emanuel A. Schegloff. Oxford Basil Blackwell


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Unit 3:
Linguistic Anthropology
CONTENT
1.0 Introduction
2.0 Unit Objectives
3.0 Main Content
3.1 Linguistic Anthropology Introduction
3.2 Speech community
3.3 Speech Situation/Event
3.4 Self-assessment Exercises
3.5 Ethnography of Speaking
4.0 Conclusion
5.0 Summary
6.0 Tutor-marked assignment
7.0 References/further Reading

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