Human social institutions are produced and sustained through everyday talk, from mundane conversation at the dinner table, in the car, or on the playground, to more formal interaction in business meetings, in the doctor’s office, at political debates, or in classrooms. In this course we examine forms of talk in a variety of formal and informal contexts, asking what the norms and rules are and how they are negotiated and continuously reproduced. We ask if and how mundane and institutional interactions differ, focusing on the domains of turn-taking, action accomplishment, sequence organization, and more. Participants in the course will learn to use suitable methodology to generate empirically based interactional-linguistic knowledge with regard to their own research question concerning institutional interaction, in order to later be able to professionally contribute to enhancing communicative processes, for instance (cf. website http://www.uni-potsdam.de/de/kovame/kompeling-pilotprojekt/informationen-fuer-studierende.html)
Please note that this course requires participants to have successfully completed MSK1+2.
Modulprüfung: short research paper (8-10 Seiten) als Hausarbeit
- Kursleiter:in: Nicholas Williams