I. Discourse Defined
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

    II. Four Basic Discourse Traditions
 
 

        A. Rules Tradition
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

        B. Speech Act Tradition
 
 

            1. Basic Assumptions
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

            2. Types of Speech Acts
 
 

                a) Utterance
 
 

                b) Propositional
 
 

                c) Illocutionary
 
 

                d) Perlocutionary
 
 

            3. Rule Structure of Speech Acts
 
 

                a) Consitutive
 
 
 
 

                b) Regulative
 

            C. Conversational Analysis
 

            1. Basic Assumptions
 
 

            2. Topic 1: Coherence

                a) Directly via Conversational Maxims & Cooperation

                    *Quantity
 
 

                    * Quality
 
 

                     * Relevance
 
 

                     * Manner

                b) Indirectly via Violations and Conversational Implicature

            3. Topic 2: Turn-taking
 
 

                a) Key assumption
 
 

                b) Adjacency-pairs
 
 
 
 
 

        D. Post-structuralism & Foucoult

            1. Discursive Formation/Episteme
 
 
 

            2. Discourse as a manifestation of Episteme

    III. Exercises/Application
 

        A. Exercise 1: Rules for Speech Acts

        B. Exercise 2: Conversation Analysis

        C. Exercise 3: The Tryout Case