English Language II. Morning and afternoon shifts. E.L. T.

: Carina Queirolo

Guidelines for a Discourse analysis practical work:

1- Choose a text from a respectable source written and published in 2019. Prepare a
glossary with collocations.
2- Analyse it following the theoretical tools dealt with in class.

Account for:

o Macrostructure: main and subsidiary ideas.

o Prevailing textual pattern and embedded pattern/s and the lexical signals which point
to the pattern/s.

o Prevailing macrofunction of language and writer’s intention.

o Grammatical and lexical cohesion.

o Tenor of discourse.

o Register and tone.

o Maxims from politeness and cooperative principles and their floutings.

Rhetorical analysis: metaphorical language, similes, and the like.

3- Start your class with a debate about the topic of the text. Propose an oral activity to be
done with the whole group.
4- Prepare questions for the rest of the students about the most salient features of the
text chosen (five in total- an exercise on vocabulary is mandatory):
5- Provide feedback on your classmates´ answers. Add any relevant information about
the analysis that was not previously mentioned
6- Think out of the box: You should show connections between your topic and something
else, such as a different field, country, a similar topic or situation, etc. (The use of
technology is compulsory here)