Theoretical perspectives of text, speech and interaction studies. Verbal language and other languages. Speech and utterance. Speech and inter-discourse. Factors of textual organization. Genre and spheres of circulation of discourse. The contribution of text, speech and interaction studies to specific discursive contexts. Language education.

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DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

Language and speech: effects of meanings. Ideology and the unconscious. Discursive and inter-discourse formation. Formulation and constitution of utterances. Discursive event. Discursive construction of reference, historicity, and discursive memory. Silence and silencing policies. Discursive practices. Construction of the analysis device: cutting, understanding, interpretation.

SEMIOTICS

Text and semiotic practices. Narrative, aspectualization and modality. Semantic and syntactic components of discourse. Argumentation and rhetorical mechanisms of speech. Expression categories in visual languages. Relations between languages, intersemiotic translation and interaction regimes. Perception, body and production of meaning.

INTERACTIONAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

From pragmatics to the interactionist perspective. Interlocutive situation: event, script, schema, interactive frame. Social practices and discourse genres. Interpersonal relations: expectations, changes, conflict, negotiation, face, politeness and discursive ethos.

SEMIOLINGUISTICS

Concepts and scope of the notion of text. Genre and text typology. The communication contract in Semiolinguistic Theory. Sociolinguistic structuring and the methodological framework. The circuits of the speech act. The process of semioticization of the world: language and speech categories. Discursive skills. The linguistic and the situational. Media discourse. Political discourse. Credibility and legitimacy. Modes of speech organization. Utterance and modality mechanisms.

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