The course as a whole focuses on linguistic form and the relationship between form and coherence. We look at different kinds of talk and different kinds of text in English. Analysing talk involves subjects such as information packaging in spoken discourse, the grammar of spoken discourse, dialogic syntax, the strategic use of pronouns, metaphor in public discourse, and multimodal spoken discourse. Analysing text involves subjects such as analysing patterns of text organisation, move structures, cohesion and coherence analysis, and analysis of metaphorical language use, with the aim of understanding the structure and rhetorical design of different kinds of text.

Contact hours listed under a course description may vary due to the combination of lecture-based and independent work required for each course therefore, CEA's recommended credits are based on the ECTS credits assigned by VU Amsterdam. 1 ECTS equals 28 contact hours assigned by VU Amsterdam.