TOPICS IN PRAGMATICS AND SOCIOLINGUISTICS
| Title | ΖΗΤΗΜΑΤΑ ΠΡΑΓΜΑΤΟΛΟΓΙΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΟΓΛΩΣΣΟΛΟΓΙΑΣ / TOPICS IN PRAGMATICS AND SOCIOLINGUISTICS |
| Code | ΓΛΩ816 |
| Faculty | Philosophy |
| School | Philology |
| Cycle / Level | 2nd / Postgraduate |
| Teaching Period | Winter/Spring |
| Common | Yes |
| Status | Active |
| Course ID | 280011006 |
Programme of Study: PPS School of Philology 2014
Registered students: 1
| Orientation | Attendance Type | Semester | Year | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Theoretical Linguistics | Compulsory Course | Winter/Spring | - | 15 |
| Applied Linguistics | Elective Courses belonging to the selected specialization | Winter/Spring | - | 15 |
| Historical and Balkan Linguistics | Elective Courses belonging to the selected specialization | Winter/Spring | - | 15 |
| Academic Year | 2018 – 2019 |
| Class Period | Spring |
| Faculty Instructors |
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| Weekly Hours | 4 |
| Total Hours | 52 |
| Class ID | 600133334
|
Mode of Delivery
- Face to face
Digital Course Content
- e-Study Guide https://qa.auth.gr/en/class/1/600133334
Erasmus
The course is also offered to exchange programme students.
Language of Instruction
- Greek (Instruction, Examination)
- English (Examination)
- German (Examination)
Prerequisites
General Prerequisites
Students should have basic knowledge in Pragmatics and Sociolinguistics.
Learning Outcomes
Students are expected to:
• understand the mechanisms of reference/deixis in spoken communication,
• get introduced to recent theories of gender,
• familiarize themselves with the basic principles of Conversation Analysis,
• appreciate the interaction between theory and empirical research,
• practice in the analysis/interpretation of qualitative data,
• recognize the role of language in the construction of social categories (and inequalities) in communication.
General Competences
- Apply knowledge in practice
- Retrieve, analyse and synthesise data and information, with the use of necessary technologies
- Work autonomously
- Work in teams
- Work in an international context
- Work in an interdisciplinary team
- Generate new research ideas
- Appreciate diversity and multiculturality
- Demonstrate social, professional and ethical commitment and sensitivity to gender issues
- Be critical and self-critical
- Advance free, creative and causative thinking
Course Content (Syllabus)
• Introduction: gender and talk-in-interaction/communication
• Pragmatic theories of communication: comparison and evaluation
• Feminist theories of gender
• Language and gender I: reflecting society/gender
• Language and gender II: constructing society/gender
• Conversation Analysis
• Person reference
• Gendered reference to persons
• Gender indexicality
• Collection of conversational data (video-recordings)
• Data transcription and processing
• Focused analysis of aspects of interaction
• Summary-synthesis-perspectives
Keywords
person reference/deixis, gendered reference, non-referential construction of gender, talk-in-interaction, Conversation Analysis
Educational Material Types
- Notes
- Slide presentations
- Audio
- Multimedia
- Book
Use of Information and Communication Technologies
Use of ICT
- Use of ICT in Course Teaching
- Use of ICT in Communication with Students
Course Organization
| Activities | Workload | ECTS | Individual | Teamwork | Erasmus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seminars | 105 | 3.6 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reading Assigment | 110 | 3.8 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Written assigments | 220 | 7.6 | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Total | 435 | 15 |
Student Assessment
Description
Students are assessed on the basis of
a) oral presentations (of relevant literature on specific topics),
b) collecting and processing of empirical data,
c) oral presentation of analysis of data,
d) comprehensive final presentation (both oral and written)
Student Assessment methods
- Written Assignment (Formative, Summative)
- Performance / Staging (Formative, Summative)
Bibliography
Additional bibliography for study
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Eckert, Penelope & Sally McConnell-Ginet, 1992. ‘Think practically and look locally’: Language and gender as community-based practice. Annual Review of Anthropology 21: 461-490.
Eckert, Penelope & Sally McConnell-Ginet, 2003. Language and Gender. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Eckert Penny & Sally McConnell-Ginet, 2007. Putting communities of practice in their place. Gender and Language 1(1): 27-37.
Eglin, Peter, 2002. Members’ gendering work: ‘Women’, ‘feminists’ and membership categorization analysis. Discourse and Society 13(6): 819-926.
Enfield, Nick J. & Tanya Stivers (eds), 2007. Person Reference in Interaction: Linguistic, Cultural, and Social Perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Fausto-Stirling, Anne, 2000. Sexing the Body. New York: Basic Books.
Fausto-Sterling, Anne, 2004. Αντιμαχόμενοι δυϊσμοί: Άνδρας ή γυναίκα; Σύγχρονα Θέματα 85: 31-33.
Goffman, Erving, 1977. The arrangement between the sexes. Theory and Society 4: 301-332.
Holmes, Janet, 2007. Social constructionism, postmodernism and feminist sociolinguistics. Gender and Language 1(1): 51-67.
Holmes, Janet & Miriam Meyerhoff (eds), 2003. The Handbook of Language and Gender. Oxford: Blackwell.
Hopper, Robert & Curtis Lebaron, 1998. How gender creeps into talk. Research on Language and Social Interaction 31(3): 59-74.
Jackson, Clare, 2011. The gendered ‘I’. In S. S. Speer & E. H. Stokoe (eds), 31-47.
Kitzinger, Celia, 2000. Doing feminist conversational analysis. Feminism & Psychology 10(2): 163-193.
Kitzinger, Celia, 2005. ‘Speaking as a heterosexual’: (How) does sexuality matter for talk-in-interaction? Research on Language and Social Interaction 38(3): 221-265.
Kitzinger, Celia, 2007. Is ‘woman’ always relevantly gendered? Gender and Language 1(1): 39-49.
Land, Victoria & Celia Kitzinger, 2011. Categories in talk-in-interaction: Gendering speaker and recipient. In S. S. Speer & E. H. Stokoe (eds), 48-63.
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Παυλίδου, Θεοδοσία-Σούλα, 1985. Παρατηρήσεις στα θηλυκά επαγγελματικά. Mελέτες για την Ελληνική Γλώσσα 5: 201-217.
Παυλίδου, Θεοδοσία-Σούλα, 2006. Γλώσσα-γένος-φύλο: Προβλήματα, αναζητήσεις και ελληνική γλώσσα. Στο Γλώσσα-Γένος-Φύλο. 2η έκδοση. Θ.-Σ. Παυλίδου (επιμ.), 2η έκδοση, 15-64. Θεσσαλονίκη: Ινστιτούτο Νεοελληνικών Σπουδών.
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Παυλίδου, Θεοδοσία-Σούλα (επιμ.), 2016. Καταγράφοντας την Ελληνική Γλώσσα. Θεσσαλονίκη: Ινστιτούτο Νεοελληνικών Σπουδών.
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Last Update
30-10-2017
