Discourse Analysis

Fall 1995; William Croft

Examination of conversation and spoken narrative.

Selected Topics from the Syllabus

Papers and Projects

Transcript. First, we had to transcribe 5 pages of conversation.

Contribution trees. Then, we had to draw these gay little diagrams all over certain parts of the transcript which the lecturer designated. He of course inadvertently chose a really screwed up and difficult one for me.

Global Organization. We then had to describe and analyze the body of the conversation in the transcripts and explain the topic flow.

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