Master
2022/2023
Language Practices in Ethnocultural Diversity
Type:
Elective course (Foreign Languages and Intercultural Communication)
Area of studies:
Linguistics
Delivered by:
School of Foreign Languages
Where:
School of Foreign Languages
When:
2 year, 2, 3 module
Mode of studies:
offline
Open to:
everyone
Master’s programme:
Иностранные языки и межкультурная коммуникация
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
6
Contact hours:
20
Course Syllabus
Abstract
The goal of the course is to introduce students to the main linguistic principles and outcomes of the communication viewed from the perspective of the social practices within specific discourse communities in the globalized and diverse societies. Modern approaches to the intercultural communication are focus on the ideas of discourse practices and discourse strategies that allow communication participants to create a common interculture.
Learning Objectives
- This course “Discourse practices in theу super diversity context” aims at introducing students to the main linguistic principles and models of communication between representatives of different linguacultures under the conditions of globalization and linguacultural diversity.
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Students can understand the emotionally rich information in direct communication with a native speaker; students can understand and employ public speaking, including through technical means; students can extract implicit information from an oral message of a monological or dialogical nature
- Students can understand basic theories of cultural differences description, of how they influence individual’s communicative behavior in various contexts; students can understand main aspects of culture’s interacions in metropolis; students can understand metaphorical constructs of culture in anthropology, linguistics and sociolinguistics
- Students can identify and describe contexts of communication; students can describe various discourse types and genres; students can compare various communication styles with one context type; students can use this knowledge for the analysis of discourse practices
- Students master skills of sociolinguistic discourse analysis, of intercultural communication contexts; students master instruments of narrative analysis
Course Contents
- Cognitive aspects of the discourse practices
- Cultural aspects of discourse practices in the superdiversity contexts
- Types of communicative practices
- New technology and its impact on communication as interaction
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Johnstone, B. (2016). “Oral versions of personal experience”: Labovian narrative analysis and its uptake. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 20(4), 542–560. https://doi.org/10.1111/josl.12192
- Labov, W. (1981). Field methods of the project on linguistic change and variation / by William Labov. Austin, Tex. : Southwest Educational Development Laboratory, 1981. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsgpr&AN=edsgpr.000230762
- Scollon, Ron, and Scollon, Suzie Wong. Discourses in Place : Language in the Material World, Routledge, 2003. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/hselibrary-ebooks/detail.action?docID=172831.
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Mesthrie, R. (2011). The Cambridge Handbook of Sociolinguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=400558