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Discourse Studies  provides a combined study of  rhetorical and sociolinguistic approaches to oral and written language, speech genres in different cultures, comparative and contrastive studies in "texts" variously defined,  and  different methods for studying  intention and agency,  meaning and interpretation  of oral and written discourses, and contexts, including audiences, cultural beliefs, and social conventions.

Students  electing a concentration in Discourse  Studies will master a number of methods for  combining the study of discourse with the study of literary texts.