Dr. Denis Paillard
Year II, Semester I
Traditionally, the analysis of speech has been left out of the scope of linguistic investigations. The acceptance that speech can be a subject of linguistic inquiry has resulted in a great deal of research and new theoretical approaches. This course serves as an introduction to the various views currently dominant in the field of speech analysis. Topics covered include the discursive cohesion of texts, anaphor, tense and subject, discursive connectors, the typology of speech and the problem of defining types of speech.