Research Seminar: Language and Power

Catalog description

The course examines the relationship between language, meaning and power in their social context. The course is organized around a number of core themes; Language studies rooted in Critical Discourse analysis; The application of Bourdieu's concepts to this field; multi modality; the growing concern with 'Superdiversity' that links Local/ Global; academic literacies, with particular reference to the writing required in students' own contexts; and methodological issues in researching language and power; and we then bring all of this to bear on our own context under the heading 'language in education'.