Social identities in intercultural communication in English (Module Additional lecture)

Winter term 2022/2023
30 contact hours
3 ECTS
Wednesday 13:15-14:45, room C1
Lecturer: Agnieszka Nowicka

Course description

The lecture focuses on social categorization in intercultural communication in English as a lingua franca.
The topics:

  • Introduction to conversation analysis and ethnomethodology
  • Interactions in English as a lingua franca and intercultural communication in conversation analytic approach
  • Membership categorization analysis
  • Construing identities in interviews
  • Construing ethnic and religious identities in intercultural communication in English

Class materials will be available at the platform MOODLE.

Bibliography

Benwell, Bethan; Stokoe, Elizabeth. 2011 Discourse and Identity. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

Hutchby, Ian; Wooffitt, Robin. 2008. Conversation Analysis. Cambridge: Polity

Jefferson, Gail. 2004. Glossary of transcript symbols with an introduction. In Gene H. Lerner (ed.), Conversation Analysis: Studies From the First Generation, 13-23. Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Psathas, George 1995 “Ethnomethods and Phenomenology ” In Donald McQuarie (ed ) Readings in Contemporary Sociological Theory From Modernity to Post-Modernity Finglewood Cliffs Prentice Hall.

Collins, R 1988 Theoretical Sociology NY: HBJ

Sacks, Harvey. 1995. Lectures on conversation. ed. by Gail Jefferson with introductions by Emanuel A. Schegloff. Oxford: Blackwell.

Stokoe, Elizabeth. 2012. “Moving forward with membership categorization anal¬ysis: Methods for systematic analysis”, Discourse Studies 14, 3: 277-303.