Introduction to Discourse Analysis

2021/2022

Academic Year

RUS

Instruction in Russian

4

ECTS credits

Delivered at:

School of Foreign Languages

Course type:

Elective course

When:

3 year, 1, 2 module

Программа дисциплины

Аннотация

The study of discourse is essentially the study of language in its natural habitat. Language is used in a variety of contexts to fulfill a broad range of communicative and social goals. This course provides an introduction to discourse analysis, involving the analysis of language above the level of sentence as well as the investigation of language in context. It offers an overview of some of the major approaches to studying oral and written texts. Students will have the opportunity to try out different methods for the analysis of discourse using different theoretical perspectives and methodologies. We will examine and practice various analytic perspectives, including conversation analysis, critical discourse analysis, narrative, pragmatics/speech act theory, sociocultural theory, and interactional sociolinguistics. We will also work with theoretical and empirical literature on discourse analysis through required readings (and through preparing and leading a presentation based on the chosen literature).

Цель освоения дисциплины

• To acquaint students with approaches to and research in discourse analysis
• To familiarize students with modern and classic academic literature on discourse analysis
• To develop skills in analysing both spoken and written discourse
• To provide students opportunities to apply discourse analytic methods in their own research
• To acquaint students with basic theoretical information and modern development in the field of discourse analysis and its features
• To develop basic skills for the implementation of discourse-analytical procedures on texts of different genres.

Планируемые результаты обучения

• Analyze a written or spoken discourse
• Aware of major approaches to the analysis of discourse
• Describe the relationship of discourse and context
• Identify how views of the world and identities are constructed through the use of discourse.

Содержание учебной дисциплины

• Introduction & Course Overview. What is discourse analysis? Different views of discourse analysis.
• Discourse and pragmatics. Language, context and discourse. Speech acts and discourse. Cross-cultural pragmatics and discourse.
• Genres and registers; spoken and written discourse. Applications of genre analysis.
• Discourse and conversation. Discourse transcription. Transcription conventions.
• Discourse grammar. The texture of a text. Patterns of cohesion. Grammatical differences between spoken and written discourse.
• Corpus approaches to Discourse analysis. Kinds of corpora. Corpus studies of the social nature of discourse.
• Multimodal discourse analysis
• Critical discourse analysis.
• Discourse and society. Discourse communities. Language as social and local practice. Discourse and gender. Discourse and identity. Discourse and ideology.
• Doing Discourse Analysis.

Элементы контроля

• Participation, Presentations, Quizzes, Attendance (throughout the course)
• Homework Assignments (x5)
• Individual Project
• Group Project
• Group Project Presentation

Промежуточная аттестация

• 2021/2022 учебный год 2 модуль
  0.2 * Group Project + 0.15 * Group Project Presentation + 0.25 * Homework Assignments (x5) + 0.25 * Individual Project + 0.15 * Participation, Presentations, Quizzes, Attendance (throughout the course)

Список литературы

Рекомендуемая основная литература

• Discourse analysis : an introduction, Paltridge, B., 2013
• The Routledge handbook of discourse analysis, , 2014

Рекомендуемая дополнительная литература

• Conversation analysis and discourse analysis : a comparative and critical introduction, Wooffitt, R., 2005
• Discourse analysis : putting our worlds into words, Strauss, S., 2014