Spoken+Discourse+Analysis

Task: 1. Analyze your transcripts from the first two or three presentations. 2. Answer the following questions in your analysis: a. What genre(s) were used? b. How was discourse marked? Were the discourse markers used effective? c. In what register was the presentation given? How well were academic words used? d. Which were the most common forms of modality used to express degrees of certainty? e. What values or beliefs were expressed in the presentation? f. Which grammatical structures were most commonly used? g. Which lexical bundles were used? How effectively were they used? h. What types of grammatical errors were most common? 3. Bring print-outs of your transcripts as well as your detailed analysis to class on Friday for discussion.
 * Spoken Discourse Analysis **