Discourse Analysis/ Conversation Analysis (P02392)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : SPS-P-P02392

This is a course in specific qualitative techniques for the analysis of speech in interaction.
The course is designed to complement, expand and specify the range of analytical skills, theoretical and methodological understandings provided by the existing core research skills courses, to provide the necessary skills for students working with speech data, to teach students how to gather naturally occurring speech data, how to process and analyze them, and how to integrate the results of the analyses in broader theoretical perspectives.

The course combines theoretical foundations with methodological perspectives and technical exercises, aiming at training students in the concrete uses of speech data in social science research.

Entry Requirements

none

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Postgraduate (School of Social and Political Science), (School of Social and Political Science, Schedule J)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Not being delivered

? Contact Teaching Time : 2 hour(s) per week for 10 weeks

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course students will:

Have an understanding of the theoretical perspectives on speech as a basic form of social interaction
Have acquired the skills for the collection of naturally occurring speech data
and the skills for processing such data.
Have learned how to analyze the formal properties of speech in interaction, as well as the content of speech
Have acquired the skills for concrete speech analyses
Have acquired the understanding required by the integration of analytical results in broader theoretical frames.
Have produced a research report based on their own speech data collection, processing, and analysis

Assessment Information

Practical exercises which students will work through during the course will build towards the final assessment in the form of a written research report. Students will be required to collect naturally occurring speech data, process and analyze them, integrate the analytical results in a relevant theoretical frame and write a report based on these steps.