Structure and pragmatic features in school counselling discourse: a case study of selected secondary schools in Nairobi

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dc.contributor.advisorEunice Ogutu
dc.contributor.advisorEunice Nyamasyo
dc.contributor.authorAndera, Adams Oliver Nadecho
dc.date.accessioned2013-01-24T09:12:22Z
dc.date.available2013-01-24T09:12:22Z
dc.date.issued2013-01-24
dc.descriptionEducational Psychology Department, 103p.The P 302.A5 2003en_US
dc.description.abstractThis study is an investigation of school counselling discourse. It establishes the discourse structure of school counselling talk with a view to identifying the discourse markers that signal the various units that comparis this structure. The study further examines the pragmatic features of discourse found in the data and to show how these lead to a possible communication breakdown between the counsellor and client in school counselling sessions. The data used in this study was collected for selected schools in Nairobi. The selection of the schools was based on the availability of counselling room and a trained counsellor assigned to deal with guidance and counselling. The data was collected by cassette recording of the sessions. This recorded data was transcribed and analysed to extract the features of structure and pragmatics following Sinclair and Courtyard (1975) model on classroom discourse. The study reveals that school counselling discourse has a hierarchical structure in which smaller units combine to form larger units. Acts, which smaller units of this discourse structure, combine to form Moves, Moves combine to form Exchanges and these form Transactions. The largest unit is the session. The unit of Move, identified as the minimal communicative unit, is further analysed in terms of illocutionary acts following Austin (1962) Speech Act Theory, to identify the pragmatic features of discourse. The pragmatic analysis also draws upon other works of pragmatics. Topic shift, Speaker assumption, participant role and pragmatic focus are identified as pragmatic features of discourse that indicate or effect miscommunication between counselor and client in school counselling discourse.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipKenyatta Universityen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://ir-library.ku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/6293
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectDiscourse analysis--Counsellingen_US
dc.subjectDiscource markersen_US
dc.subjectPragmaticsen_US
dc.subjectCounselling in secondary educationen_US
dc.titleStructure and pragmatic features in school counselling discourse: a case study of selected secondary schools in Nairobien_US
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