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FICHA IDENTIFICATIVA
Datos de la Asignatura
Cdigo
44235
Nombre
Comunicacin interpersonal en los gneros
Ciclo
Mster
Crditos ECTS
3.0
Curso acadmico
2015 - 2016
Titulacin(es)
Titulacin
2196 - M.U. en Estudios Ingleses
Avanzados

Centro
FACULTAT DE FILOLOGIA,
TRADUCCI I COMUNICACI

Materias
Titulacin
2196 - M.U. en Estudios Ingleses
Avanzados

Materia
12 - Comunicacin interpersonal en los
gneros

Coordinacin
Nombre
SUAU JIMENEZ, FRANCISCA ANTONIA

Curso Periodo
1
Primer
cuatrimestre

Carcter
Obligatoria

Departamento
155 - FILOLOGA INGLESA Y ALEMANA

RESUMEN
This subject takes a discourse analysis approach to the study of interpersonal communication,
understood as the practice of social interaction for the purposes of persuasion, evaluation and the
expression of opinions, among others.
The course will address the specific pragmatic strategies used in interpersonal communication and
assess their linguistic, social and professional implications. The course will introduce different theoretical
frameworks for the analysis of interactional structures (dialogues, polylogues, etc.) as it is in and through
these that individuals negotiate, maintain or challenge relationships and identities.
The practical analyses will involve interaction between two or more participants in different institutional
and professional genres or modes as well as in everyday contexts. The distinction between public and
private communication will also be considered (e.g. online discussion forums or emails about a range of
topics).
The study of interpersonal communication will contribute to the in-depth understanding and
characterisation of interactional genres, modes and discourses, at times hybrid, and will also provide
more complex communication skills in the English language.

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CONOCIMIENTOS PREVIOS
Relacin con otras asignaturas de la misma titulacin
No se han especificado restricciones de matrcula con otras asignaturas del plan de estudios.
Otros tipos de requisitos

COMPETENCIAS
2196 - M.U. en Estudios Ingleses Avanzados
- Que los/las estudiantes posean las habilidades de aprendizaje que les permitan continuar estudiando
de un modo que habr de ser en gran medida autodirigido o autnomo
- Poseer y comprender conocimientos que aporten una base u oportunidad de ser originales en el
desarrollo y/o aplicacin de ideas, a menudo en un contexto de investigacin.
- Capacidad para comprender, desde un enfoque avanzado, de mayor complejidad respecto del de los
estudios de Grado, aquellos conceptos, principios, teoras o modelos relacionados con los distintos
campos de los Estudios Ingleses.
- Capacidad para conocer, desde un enfoque avanzado, de mayor complejidad respecto del de los
estudios de Grado, la metodologa necesaria para la resolucin de problemas propios del rea de los
Estudios Ingleses.
- Capacidad para presentar en pblico experiencias, ideas o informes dentro del rea de los Estudios
Ingleses, desde un enfoque avanzado, de mayor complejidad respecto del de los estudios de Grado.
- Capacidad para emitir juicios en funcin de criterios, de normas externas o de reflexiones personales
para lo que ser necesario alcanzar un dominio suficiente del lenguaje acadmico y cientfico-tcnico
en ingls tanto en su vertiente escrita como oral.
- Capacidad para reconocer las metodologas y teoras, as como los temas, principios terminolgicos,
tericos, formales e ideolgicos fundamentales para la introduccin a la investigacin lingstica o
literaria en el rea de Estudios Ingleses.
- Capacidad para interpretar y analizar textos representativos de la pluralidad lingstica y cultural de
las sociedades anglfonas contemporneas con el fin de reflexionar sobre su relevancia, no slo en
referencia a los contextos socio-lingsticos, histricos, polticos y culturales en los que se inscriben,
sino tambin en relacin con la globalizacin de la cultura, dentro de los
Estudios Ingleses.
- Capacidad para aplicar e integrar las destrezas y los conocimientos tericos adquiridos sobre las
distintas herramientas disponibles tanto en soporte impreso como informtico (TIC) con objeto de
realizar un anlisis crtico propio y riguroso, dentro de los Estudios Ingleses.
- Capacidad para conseguir autonoma progresiva en el aprendizaje, bsquedas propias de recursos e
informacin, accediendo para ello a fuentes bibliogrficas y documentales sobre los distintos mbitos
que conforman los Estudios Ingleses.
- Capacidad para organizar, estructurar y desarrollar las ideas en variados tipos de documentos
acadmicos, de mayor o menor envergadura: desde el ensayo, el informe tcnico, el comentario
crtico, hasta el planteamiento inicial que debe subyacer a un trabajo de investigacin de ms amplio
calado como es la realizacin de un Trabajo Fin de Mster, dentro de los Estudios Ingleses.

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RESULTADOS DE APRENDIZAJE
To become familiar with current research in interpersonal communication across individual,
collective, private and public genres, modes and discourses.
To understand the differences between different theoretical frameworks of
interpersonal communication and apply the methodological analysis tools of each of these.
To learn the conversational features of different types of interpersonal interaction: dialogues,
polylogues, etc.
To be able to assess structures of interpersonal communication in concrete and sometimes
hybrid genres and modes.
To distinguish the voices which interact in a stretch of interpersonal communication and
draw functional and/or pragmatic-discursive conclusions.
To be able to characterize discursive genres, modes and phenomena through the analysis
of interpersonal interaction.
To be able to draw discursive conclusions about interpersonal interaction and perceive
its implications and influence in social and/or professional activities, media and fields.
To know and be able to deal with complex discursive structures which are created
through communicational interaction in English.

DESCRIPCIN DE CONTENIDOS
1. Introduction
1. What is interpersonal communication?
2. The evolution and development of Hallidays tenor.
3. Interpersonal interaction and its markers.
4. Interpersonality in the construction and attainment of rhetorical functions.
5. Applications and implications: translation, communicating for persuasion in academic and professional
genres and everyday contexts.

2. Interpersonal discourse across genres

1.Where genre and interpersonal interaction meet.
2.How interpersonal interaction characterizes genres.
3.Interpersonal differences according to genre, language and domain.
4.Different uses of interpersonal interaction in academic and professional genres.
5.Exercises and conclusions.

3. Interpersonality within academic genres

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1.Academic discourse and interpersonal requirements.

2.The importance of metadiscourse.
3.Pattern of interactional markers for academic English.
4.Domain variables and their implications: science, humanities, law, politics.
5.Stance and engagement voices
6.Exercises and conclusions

4. Interpersonality within professional genres

1.Professional discourses and interpersonal requirements.
2.Persuasion.
3.The case of hotel websites.
4.The case of job adverts.
5.The case of business letters.
6.Exercises and conclusions.

5. Interpersonal communication in everyday contexts

1.Dialogues and polylogues.
2.Internet-mediated genres, modes and contents.
3.Patterns of interpersonal markers in emails, blogs and forums.
4.The case of travellers forums.
5.Exercises and conclusions.

6. Applications to a research project

1.How to collect a corpus of academic or professional genres for interpersonal analysis.
2.How to identify a pattern of interpersonal markers.
3.How to draw a genre characterization and its main rhetorical functions.
4.Applications: translation and written/oral production from an interpersonal perspective.
5.Exercises and conclusions.

VOLUMEN DE TRABAJO
Horas
ACTIVIDADES PRESENCIALES
Clases de teora
Total Actividades Presenciales
ACTIVIDADES NO PRESENCIALES
Asistencia a eventos y actividades externas
Elaboracin de trabajos en grupo
Elaboracin de trabajos individuales
Estudio y trabajo autnomo
Lecturas de material complementario
Preparacin de clases de teora
Preparacin de clases prcticas y de problemas
Total Actividades No Presenciales
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24.00
24.00
5.00
5.00
5.00
10.00
5.00
10.00
11.00
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TOTAL

75.00

METODOLOGA DOCENTE
Pair or group work.
Set readings (autonomous reading or with classroom discussion, selecting relevant information, relating
concepts, studying, completing work sheets, writing outlines or summaries).
Oral presentation of set readings, oral or written summaries.
Theoretical and practical problem solving (exercises, compilation of data for analysis, analysis of written,
oral, audiovisual, digital and/or multimodal texts from different genres).

EVALUACIN
Assessment of class attendance and active participation: 30%
Assessment of competences through written and/or oral tests: 70%
Please note that plagiarism will not be tolerated; it is a serious academic offence. Any student who is
found to have committed plagiarism in his/her work for the course will face serious consequences, which
will lead to failing the whole subject.

REFERENCIAS
Bsicas
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Interpersonality: Multiple Perspectives on Written Academic Genres. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars
Publishing.
- Hyland, Kenneth. 2008. Disciplinary voices. Interactions in research writing. English Text Construction
1:1: 5-22.
- Hyland, Kenneth and Tse, Polly. 2004. Metadiscourse in Academic Writing: A
Reappraisal. Applied Linguistics 25/2: 156-177.
- Murawska, M. 2010. Impersonality in medical case reports. In: Lors-Sanz, R./Mur-Dueas,
P./Lafuente-Milln, E. 2010. Constructing Interpersonality: Multiple Perspectives on Written Academic
Genres. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
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