Seminar in Discourse Analysis.

Catalog description

Semester course; 3 lecture hours (delivered online, face-to-face or hybrid). 3 credits. The course introduces key concepts and analytic tools for linguistic analysis that can be used to explore how speakers and writers construe meaning through discourse in educational contexts and beyond. These techniques are introduced in steps through analyses of spoken, written and visual texts. The course examines different approaches to discourse, looking at discourse and society, discourse and pragmatics, discourse and genre, discourse and conversation, discourse grammar, corpus approaches to discourse analysis, multimodal discourse analysis and critical discourse analysis. The course goes in depth into a specific approach to discourse analysis: systemic functional linguistics. Examples from films, television, newspapers, the classroom and everyday life are used to provide different contexts for discourse analytic work.