ENG/LIN 591 Cross-Cultural Discourse Studies:
Contrastive Rhetoric and Pragmatic
Spring 2003

Syllabus


Back to 591 Homepage

591 Course Description

Note:  Assignments are due on the date listed. You may either scroll down to see the assignments for each week, or you may click on the week number below to jump to the assignments for that week.
 
 

Weeks

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16

Week 1
January 21  Introduction

Introduction to Course

Back to Top

Week 2
January 28  Discourse Analysis: Introduction to Theories and Methods
Johnstone: Chapters 1-4 (pp. 1-136)

Back to Top

Week 3
February 4  Discourse Analysis: Introduction to Theories and Methods
Johnstone: Chapters 5-8 (pp. 137-238)
Becker: “Time and Tune in Java” (pp. 197-210) (SR)

Back to Top

Week 4
February 11   History and Theories of Contrastive Rhetoric
Kaplan: “Foreword: What in the World is Contrastive Rhetoric?” (SR)
Connor: Chapters 1–5 (pp. 1–99)

Back to Top

Week 5
February 18  Theories and Methods of Contrastive Rhetoric & Methods and Theories of Genre Study
Connor: Chapters 6–10 (100–74)
Briggs & Bauman: “Genre, Intertextuality, and Social Power (pp. 131-72) (SR)
Berkenkotter & Huckin: “Rethinking Genre from a Sociocognitive Perspective” (pp. 1-25) (SR)

Back to Top

Week 6
February 25   Intercultural Communication: Talk/Orality
Scollon and Scollon: Chapters 1–4 (pp. 1–85)
Sherzer and Darnell: “Outline Guide for the Ethnographic Study of Speech Use” (pp. 548-54) (SR)
Brown and Levinson: from Politeness: Some Universals in Language Usage (pp. 65-129) (SR)

Due: Proposal


Back to Top

Week 7
March 4   Intercultural Communication: Discourse Systems & Literate Practices
Scollon and Scollon: Chapters 5-7 (pp. 86-176) )
Street: “Introduction: The New Literacy Studies” (pp. 1–21) (SR)
Street: “A Critical Look at Walter Ong and the ‘Great Divide’” and “Literacy Practices and Literacy Myths”(pp. 153-75) (SR)

Back to Top

Week 8
March 11  Intercultural Communication: Workplace Talk/Text
Scollon and Scollon: Chapters 8 and 9 (pp. 177–217)
Kleifgen: “Assembly Talk” (SR)
Maddox: “Literacy and the Market: The Economic Uses of Literacy Among the Peasantry in North-West Bangladesh.” (pp. 137-51) (SR)

Due: Mini-Discourse Study:  Group Presentations on Mini-Discourse Study


Back to Top

Week 9 March 18  ***SPRING BREAK*** No Classes


Back to Top


Week 10
March 25  Intercultural Communication: Generational and Gender
Scollon and Scollon: Chapters 10-12 (pp. 218-85)
Street: “Introduction: Ethnographic Perspectives on Literacy” (pp. 1-17) (SR)
Weinstein-Shr: “Literacy and Social Process” (pp. 272-293) (SR)
Rockhill: “Gender, Language, and the Politics of Literacy” (pp. 156-75) (SR)
Zubair: “Literacies, Gender and Power in Rural Pakistan” (pp. 188-204) (SR)

Back to Top

Week 11
April 1  Cross-Cultural Literate Practices
Kluick & Stroud: “Conceptions and Uses of Literacy in a Papua New Guinean Village” (pp. 30-61) (SR)
Besnier: “Literacy and Feelings: ...Affect in Nukulaelae Letters” (pp. 62-86) (SR)
Bledsoe and Robey: “Arabic Literacy and Secrecy among the Mende of Sierra Leone” (pp. 110-134) (SR)
Sugimoto and Levin: “Multiple Literacies and Multimedia: A Comparison of Japanese and American Uses of the Internet” (pp. 133-53) (SR)

Due: Annotated Bibliography


Back to Top

Week 12
April 8  Cross-Cultural Talk
Blum-Kulka: Chapters 1 and 2 (pp. 1-56)

Back to Top

Week 13
April 15   Cross-Cultural Talk
Blum-Kulka: Chapters 3 and 4 (pp. 57-141)

Back to Top

Week 14
April 22  Cross-Cultural Talk
Blum-Kulka: Chapters 5 and 6 (pp. 142-219)
Oral Presentations

Back to Top

Week 15
April 29  Cross-Cultural Talk
Blum-Kulka: Chapters 7 and 8 (pp. 220-81)
Oral Presentations

Back to Top

Week 16
May 6   Wrap-Up
Oral Presentations
Due: Seminar Paper

Back to Top