Purpose of the Week: Students explore major discourse frameworks and apply theory to authentic data. The focus is on analytical rigour and justified interpretation.
Student Task: Students select a framework such as Critical Discourse Analysis, Conversation Analysis, Systemic Functional Linguistics, or pragmatics-based analysis. They write a 10001200-word paper explaining theoretical assumptions and analysing real data. In class, they present about what they wrote about.

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