Sunday, May 16, 2010

Assignment on conversation analysis

Choose one or two scenes in a feature film/a TV serial that you like. Do two of the following tasks:

1.Try to identify the language functions used in the conversation.
2.Try to analyze the communicative competence of the interlocutors from the following perspectives (grammatical competence, discourse competence, strategic competence, sociolinguistic competence)
3.Try to analyse the conversations from the following aspects:
a) attention getting

b) topic nomination

c) topic development (clarification, shifting, avoidance and interpretation)

d) Topic termination

4. Try to analyze the conversation in terms of Gricean maxims (quantity, quality, relevance, manner )

Please do not forget to illustrate your comments by giving relevant examples.

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