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EDUC 550 Week 6 - Pragmatics & Discourse  

EDUC 550 Applied Linguistics for Language teachers - Week 6 - Pragmatics & Discourse 

For EDUC 550 Week 6: Pragmatics and Discourse, the Curzan and Adams readings are:

  • Chapter 8: Spoken Discourse

  • Chapter 2: Language and Authority

    • Read only “Spoken vs. Written Discourse,” pages 43–46

The syllabus does not provide public links to the Curzan and Adams textbook chapters. Access them through your textbook or EDUC 550 Brightspace.

Additional readings

  • Deborah Tannen, “Conversational Signals and Devices”

  • Emmy Min, “Writing to Authority Figures: Korean Students’ Communication in English”

Access these through the EDUC 550 Student Google Drive folder. You may need to sign in with your USC account or use the USC VPN.

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