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ENG223 Discourse Analysis

5.0 Summary
6.0 Tutor-marked Assignment Watch a home video and discuss the politeness principle and strategies used in the conversations. 7.0 References/Further Reading
MODULE SIX LATER APPROCAHES TO DISCOURSE ANALYSIS Unit 1: Critical Discourse Analysis Unit 2: Discourse in Use (Discourse and The Media)

4.0 Conclusion

It is natural for us as we interact to be sensitive to the social situation in which the interaction takes place. One way of being sensitive to the social situation and cultural practices is to be polite in our interaction. Politeness is one phenomenon we observe in our daily interactions. Pragmatists have identified the strategies we use when being polite and the maxims we observe in the process. Some of such pragmatists include Brown and Levinson and Leech.
5.0 Summary

In this Unit, we examined politeness in conversation. Politeness is a form of behaviour that helps us to establish and maintain comity and engage in actions in an atmosphere of harmony. We examined the concept of face and how it relates to politeness. We also looked at four politeness strategies identified by Brown and Levinson (1987). Lastly we learnt that politeness principle has a set of maxims we adhere to when we are being polite in conversation.
6.0 Tutor-marked Assignment
Watch a home video and discuss the politeness principle and strategies used in the conversations.

7.0 References/Further Reading
Brown, P. & Levinson, S. (1987). Politeness Some universals in language usage. Cambridge Cambridge University Press.
Goffman, E. (1967). On facework: an analysis of ritual elements in social interaction, in Jawrski, A.,and Coupland, N. (eds) The Discourse Reader, London, Roterledge, pp.
306-321. Leech, G.N. (1983) Principles of Pragmatics. Arnold

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MODULE SIX LATER APPROCAHES TO DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
Unit 1: Critical Discourse Analysis
Unit 2: Discourse in Use (Discourse and The Media)
Unit 3: Discourse in Use (Discourse and Society)
Unit 4: Discourse and Other Disciplines

Unit 1: Critical Discourse Analysis

Contents
1.0 Introduction
2.0 Unit Objectives
3.0 Main Content
3.1 What is Critical Discourse Analysis
3.2 Critical Discourse Analysis and Critical Linguistics
3.3 Language and Ideology
Self-assessed Exercises
3.4 Conducting Critical Discourse Analysis Research
4.0 Conclusion
5.0 Summary
6.0 Tutor-marked Assessment
7.0 References/Further Reading

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