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DRPS : Course Catalogue : School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences : Psychology

Postgraduate Course: Dialogue (PSYL11004)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) AvailabilityAvailable to all students
SCQF Credits10 ECTS Credits5
SummaryTo provide an advanced understanding of current psycholinguistic research on dialogue, including both its comprehension and its production.
Course description Lectures:
1. The cognitive, linguistic and social foundations of dialogue research
2. Dialogue as joint activity
3. Dialogue as alignment
4. Audience design and modelling one's interlocutor
5. Disfluency
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesNone
High Demand Course? Yes
Course Delivery Information
Academic year 2015/16, Available to all students (SV1) Quota:  None
Course Start Block 4 (Sem 2)
Timetable Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 100 ( Lecture Hours 10, Feedback/Feedforward Hours 1, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 87 )
Assessment (Further Info) Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment) One assignment of 2500 words, and satisfactory course presentation

Assignment Deadline: Thursday 14th April 2016, 12 noon
Assignment Return Date: 6th May 2016
Feedback Written feedback from Course Organiser and peers following student presentations and in-class discussions.

Tutorials will be held in weeks 2 and 4.

Comments provided on submitted assessments
No Exam Information
Learning Outcomes
An advanced understanding of dialogue research.
Reading List
Garrod (1999). The challenge of dialogue for theories of language processing. In S. Garrod & M. Pickering (Eds.), Language Processing (pp. 389-415). Hove, UK: Psychology Press.
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
Additional Class Delivery Information Attend all lectures as scheduled
KeywordsNot entered
Contacts
Course organiserProf Holly Branigan
Tel: (0131 6)50 8387
Email: Holly.Branigan@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMiss Toni Noble
Tel: (0131 6)51 3188
Email: Toni.noble@ed.ac.uk
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