This course aims at introducing students to the different structural and communicative levels of discourse: textual organization (i.e. reference, cohesion, coherence, etc.), shared beliefs (i.e. presupposition, implicature, given new information structures, etc.), and conversational analysis (i.e. turn taking, interruptions, etc.). Prerequisite: ENL 301. ENL Language Acquisition Theories (3.0); 3 cr. This course studies the process by which language develops in humans. Theories concerning first language acquisition as well as second language acquisition are discussed.

Fundamentals of Discourse Analysis