Language and Social Interaction, 7.5 credits

Språk och interaktionsanalys, 7.5 hp

7FIKO13

Course level

Third-cycle Education

Description

The course targets dialogic and interactional approaches to language, where human linguistic behavior is theorized as an aspect of multimodal communication. We look at language as a situated phenomenon.

Contact

Contents

The course targets dialogic and interactional approaches to language, where human linguistic behavior is theorized as an aspect of multimodal communication. We look at language as a situated phenomenon.

Educational methods

Seminars

Examination

Active participation at seminars, course paper.

Grading

Two-grade scale

Course literature

Books:

Levinson, Steven & Nick Enfield (Eds.) 2006. Roots of Human Sociality: Culture, Cognition, and Interaction. London: Routledge.

Selected readings according to the course syllabus.

General information

The course will run during April and May, 2024. Course start April 9th.

Language: to be decided in consultation with course participants