Assignment Problem: Choose four of the following six tasks. You should write approximately 750 words for each task.
List of tasks (choose four):
1. Phonetics and phonology
2. Lexis
3. Grammar
4. Pragmatics
5. Spoken discourse OR written discourse
6. Register and genre
Task 1: Phonetics & phonology
Problem 1: Produce a phonetic transcription of the following dialogue, assuming both speakers speak RP but are speaking in a casual style. [Note: the transcription does not contribute to the word count].
Problem 2: Identify three words in the dialogue for which a phoneme could be pronounced by a choice of more than one allophone (i.e. there is more than one way to produce the sound). For each phoneme, identify the possible allophones and explain why more than one pronunciation is possible, using one or more of these factors:
a. Complementary distribution & free variation
b. Word stress
c. Connected speech
Problem 3: Specify a group of L2 English learners from a particular L1 background and identify two aspects of pronunciation (i.e. phonemic variation, connected speech, stress or intonation) that might cause them difficulty when speaking this dialogue. Explain why these aspects might be problematic.
Task 2: Lexis
Discuss the following notions using examples from the text below:
- Paradigmatic relations
- Syntagmatic relations (also known as collocation)
- Metaphor
Task 3: Grammar
1. Identify the word classes, phrases and grammatical relations in the following sentences, using the terminology introduced in the lecture on grammar. [Note: this part of the task does not contribute to the word count].
Task 4: Pragmatics
Discuss Speech Act Theory and Politeness Theory giving examples from all of the following three extracts of natural speech. You do not have to comment on the whole of the texts, i.e. you should not analyze each text line by line but do use examples from all three texts.
Task 5: Discourse
Please choose ONE of the following discourse tasks (either spoken or written discourse).
OPTION A: Spoken discourse
Describe some of the characteristics of spoken discourse using examples from the following spoken texts. Note that you may not find examples of every characteristic discussed in class. To help your analysis, you may also discuss the absence of typical features of written discourse.
OPTION B: Written discourse
Read the following text from the Guardian newspaper and:
a) Identify any culturally popular patterns of text organization.
b) Give examples of clause relations, including matching relations and logical sequences.
To help your analysis, you may also discuss the absence of typical features of spoken discourse. Paragraph numbers have been inserted for ease of reference.
Task 6: Register and genre
Discuss and compare the following two texts in terms of the frameworks of:
Assignment Structure:
A) Define the theory (with reference to literature)
B) Use examples from the text(s) to demonstrate the theory
C) Word count
D) References list.
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