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Lesson 3.
Lesson 3.
Introduction
Chapter3
Thesis statement
Introductory remarks
Chapter1
3.1.Support for thesis
Introductory remarks
3.2.concluding remarks
1.1.Support for thesis
Conclusion
1.2.concluding remarks
Thesis statement
Chapter2
Bibliography
Introductory remarks
2.1.Support for thesis
2.2.concluding remarks
A THANK- YOU LETTER
■ Sender’s address
■ Date
■ Receiver’s address
■ ‘Dear’ direct address
■ Message
■ Thank you
■ Thank you again
■ Sincerely yours
■ Signature
A LESSON: TRANSACTION-
EXCHANGE-MOVE-ACT
■ Transaction : stages in the process:
■ warming up, discussion, home assignment
■ Exchange: T. opening move: initiation from the teacher,
■ P. answering move: response from the pupil,
■ T. follow - up move: evaluation from the pupil
■ Closing move
DISCOURSE STRUCTURE AS
PROCESS
■This approach does not take into account real
discourse in a classroom when pupils behave
non - conventionally.
■It reflects teacher-centered classroom. The
2015 British classroom is student-centered:
pupils work in pairs and groups.
Fill in the gaps, please
■ I do not know …. I may appear to the world; … to myself I seem to have been only a
boy playing on the sea shore, … diverting myself in, now and then , finding a smoother
pebble … a prettier shell than ordinary, …… the great ocean of truth lay all
undiscovered before me.
■ Isaak Newton 1642-1727
What is it about?
1. Speech acts
Locution, illocution, perlocution
2. Conversational principles
Cooperation four maxims of Grice
Politeness Robin Lakoff , G Leech
3. Speech rules
for the speaker
for the listener
Speech acts
Declarations: I resign, I
baptize.
Direct vs indirect speech acts
■ Discourse 1
A - Give me some cash.
B - What? Again? I won’t.
■ Discourse 2
No mon, no fun, your son.
Too bad, too sad, your dad.
Social and cultural dimension
Maxims:
DO NOT IMPOSE
GIVE OPTIONS
MAKE THE RECEIVER FEEL GOOD
(Robin Lakoff)
Rules for the speaker
■ DO NOT INTERRUPT
■ ASK QUESTONS
■ NOTE GESTURES AND FACIAL EXPRESSIONS
■ SUMMARISE MENTALLY WHAT THE SPEAKER SAYS
■ KEEP EYE CONTACT
■ DO NOT TAKE EMOTIONAL WORDS SERIOUSLY
■ DO NOT PRETEND TO LISTEN