ENGL 691 Studies in Critical Theory: Language Theory Spring 2004 Bishop 326 W 4:00-6:30 Contact Doug: office: Bondurant C 217 tel. 915-7684 office hours: TWTh 3-4 djr@olemiss.edu

ENGL 691 Spring 2004 Studies in Critical Theory: Language Theory Texts: J. L. Austin, How To Do Things With Words Jacques Derrida, Limited Inc Horst Ruthrof, The Body in Language Erving Goffman, Frame Analysis course pack (available at CopyTime) (supplemental: teacher's guide to Robinson, Performative Pragmatics) Syllabus 1/7 Introduction 1/14 Austin, How To Do Things With Words (I-VII) 1/21 Derrida, Limited Inc (1-27); Cavell (course pack) 1/28 Derrida, Limited Inc (20-110) 2/4 Butler, Robinson (course pack) 2/11 Austin, How To Do Things With Words (VIII-XII); Robinson (course pack) 2/18 Goffman, Frame Analysis (ch. 2/3/5/6, skim ch. 4); Robinson (course pack) 2/25 Goffman, Frame Analysis (ch. 7/10/11/13, skim ch. 12) 3/3 Grice, Robinson (course pack) Spring Break 3/17 Ruthrof, The Body in Language (ch. 1/2/3, skim 4); Robinson (course pack) 3/24 Ruthrof, The Body in Language (ch. 5/6/8/10, skim 7/9); Robinson (course pack) 3/31 Ruthrof, The Body in Language (pp. 165-68); Johnson, Robinson (course pack) 4/14 Nietzsche, Foucault, Butler (course pack) 4/21 Bourdieu (course pack) 4/28 Goffman, Brown/Levinson, Robinson (course pack); papers due Requirements: one 1-2-page response paper every week; 15-20-page research paper

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