EL30RC DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
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30 Credit Course: 12 weeks
Course Co-ordinators: Dr M Garner
Pre-requisite(s): Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above who have fulfilled the entry requirements to the Language and Linguistics Honours programme, or by permission of the Programme Co-ordinator.
Students will be introduced to a range of conceptions of and perspectives on discourse, drawn from disciplines such as linguistics, social psychology, sociology, and communication studies. They will examine what the study of discourse reveals about the nature of language, social interaction, power relations, and the construction of meaning. They will learn the basic principles of four analytical methods for discourse analysis: conversation analysis; critical discourse analysis; text linguistics; narrative analysis.
They will gain practical experience in applying these approaches to a variety of discourses, including conversations, interviews, the media, academic writing, literary texts, and advertisements.
1 two-hour seminar and 1 one-hour lecture per week. Tue/Fri at 9
In-course assessment: One theoretical essay (50%), one analytical paper (25%), one class test (15%), and seminar work (10%).
Resit: 1 two-hour written examination (100%).