Course Description
This course is designed to help students understand how languages structure texts and how the resulting structure influences communication and translation. The course focuses on the discourse structure of narrative texts, with a brief survey of the structure of nonnarrative texts. Students practice analyzing texts for various discourse features such as sentence structure, macrosegmentation of texts, the use of particles and conjunctions, and information structure. Salience schemes, transitivity, participant reference, and paragraph analysis are some of the other topics included.
Course Details
Level: Master's LevelCredit hours: 3
Term(s) course is offered: Spring/Fall
Prerequisites: AL4410 Principles of Grammatical Analysis or AL5301 Morphosyntax.
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