General linguistic issues
- UE code LROMB318
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Schedule
30Quarter 2
- ECTS Credits 4
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Language
French
- Teacher
The 2025–2026 course will focus on the theme: The Making of Discourse: Speech, Interaction, and Multimodality. By the end of the course, students will be able to work with various concepts from discourse analysis, pragmatics, and interactional linguistics related to discourse activity, understood as an ongoing process.
By the end of the course, students will be able to:
The course will be organized around three main themes:
The sessions will combine lectures, readings and text discussions, as well as the analysis of concrete case studies. Students will be actively involved throughout: identifying and formulating research questions, summarizing arguments and article excerpts, analyzing real examples, collecting data, and finding diverse illustrations of the concepts and issues discussed.
Assessment will take the form of an analysis of selected data that brings together the different dimensions of the course (markers of discursive heterogeneity, speech habits and (dis)fluency, gestures), highlighting discourse as an activity in progress.
Evaluation criteria:
Authier-Revuz, J. (1995). Ces mots qui ne vont pas de soi. Boucles réflexives et non-coïncidences du dire. Paris : Larousse.
Blanche-Benveniste, C. (2010). Approches de la langue parlée en français. Paris : Ophrys.
Ducrot, O. (1984). Le dire et le dit. Paris : Minuit.
Goffman, E. (1987). Façons de parler. Paris : Minuit. (trad. de Forms of Talk).
Kerbrat-Orecchioni, C. (2005). Le discours en interaction. Paris : Armand Colin.
Mondada, L. (2019). Contemporary Issues in Conversation Analysis: Embodiment and Materiality in Social Interaction. Journal of Pragmatics, 145, 47– 62.
Training | Study programme | Block | Credits | Mandatory |
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Bachelor in Ancient and Modern Languages and Literatures | Standard | 0 | 4 | |
Bachelor in French and Romance Languages and Literatures: General | Standard | 0 | 4 | |
Bachelor in French and Romance Languages and Literatures: General | Standard | 2 | 4 | |
Bachelor in Ancient and Modern Languages and Literatures | Standard | 3 | 4 | |
Bachelor in French and Romance Languages and Literatures: General | Standard | 3 | 4 |