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LING 6450 Discourse analysis and pragmatics (Winter 2011)

 

 

Resources

Readings: Click here to access the COURSE READINGS (Moodle).

About transcription and transciption tools:

The "Linguistic Annotation Wiki" compiles information on various linguistic annotation systems.

Transcription in Action webpage about transcription maintained by Mary Bucholtz and John Du Bois at UC Santa Barbara.

Transcription software (free downloads):

ELAN (MPI Nijmegen)

"CHILDES" The Child Language Data Exchange System

EXMARaLDA (U Hamburg)

Transcriber

Praat (very popular phonetics software)

VoiceWalker (from Santa Barbara)

ANVIL

TASX (Time Aligned Signal data eXchange; )

 

IN 2008, the course created its own transcription wiki

Final paper topics

To search for a specific topic of your interest, start by using the Linguistics and Language Behavior Database, which is accessible from the following webpage:

http://www.library.yorku.ca/ccm/rg/sm/Linguistics.jsp

Other recommended resources are:

Schiffrin, Deborah, Tannen, Deborah, and Hamilton, Heidi E. (eds.) 2001. The Handbook of Discourse Analysis. Malden, Ma.: Blackwell. Call# in process

Blommaert, Jan. 2005. Discourse: A Critical Introduction. Cambridge: CUP. Call# P 302.84 B585 2005

Johnstone, Barbara. 2002. Discourse Analysis Malden, Ma.: Blackwell [Second edition: 2008]. Call# P 302 J64 2002