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D-course with linguistic specialisation

Please note that linguistic D-courses are available every semester ("varje termin") and that the course content varies between autumn and spring. For details see below.

General Aim of the D-level Course

The D-course has as its aim to conclude the undergraduate programme in English (61-80 credits), but it is also one of the formal requirements for students who want to join the doctoral programme in English.

There is no formal testing of language proficiency at the D level, but the assessment of the research essay will be based on both language and content.

AUTUMN SEMESTER 2001:

Subcourses and credits:

1. Language in Culture and Society (10 credits)

This subcourse is taught and examined by the Linguistics subject group in the School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences at Sussex as part of their M.A. in Applied Linguistics. The teaching consists of weekly lectures and seminars.

Course description:

The course focuses on theories and methods for the analysis of language and social context. Many language issues are of social, educational and political importance. The course draws in particular on the contribution made by the anthropological tradition in the USA and Britain, including the ethnography of communication, and the issue of linguistic relativity. It also introduces some key ideas in the sociology and social psychology of linguistic variation, including the relation between linguistic categories and social ones such as class and gender.

2. Linguistic Research Essay (10 credits)

Independent linguistic research under the supervision of one the tutors in the Linguistics subject group at Sussex.

SPRING SEMESTER 2002:

Subcourses and credits:

1. Discourse and Communication Analysis (10 credits)

This subcourse is taught and examined by the Linguistics subject group in the School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences at Sussex as part of their M.A. in Applied Linguistics. The teaching in the course consists of lectures and seminars.

Course description:

This course focuses on the study of discourse analysis of spoken or written text in the widest sense. It aims to provide the student with insight into methodological and ethical aspects of data-collection. It introduces the student to observation and elicitation techniques as employed in dialectology and other branches of social linguistics. A basic understanding of discourse transcription conventions is aimed at. Students acquire knowledge of the formal aspects of textuality (cohesion), prosody, information structure, conversation structure, patterns of inference and cognitive approaches to pragmatics. The course equips students with techniques of text analysis generally applicable in all communicative situations. Students design and carry out projects involving conversation or discourse analysis of patterns according to the type of communicative event and other factors such as, for example, gender, age and number of participants.

This subcourse follows the Sussex term pattern and will therefore start around 10 January 2002.

2. Linguistic Research Essay (10 credits)

Independent linguistic research under the supervision of one of the tutors in the Linguistics subject group at Sussex.

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