DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
- Course
- ELTE509 - DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
- Department
- English Language Teaching - English - Master
- Course Type
- Course
- Status
- Required
- Language
- English
- Credit
- 3
- ECTS
- 8
- T+P+L
- 3 + 0 + 0
- Course Coordinator(s)
- -
- Prerequisite
- -
Course Description
The aim of this course is to investigate the functions of language (in other words, what language is used for) and how meaning is constructed in different contexts. The course focuses on the organization of language above the sentence level and analyses spoken and written discourse from the perspective of its lexical, grammatical, functional and organisational features. It also deals with the influence of cultural, situational and textual contexts on the construction and decoding of discourse. It covers the fundamental approaches to the analysis of discourse such as speech act theory, ethnomethodology, interactional sociolinguistics, ethnography of communication, and variation theory.
DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
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Course Syllabus
| Week | Topic |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | Introduction to the course |
| Week 2 | Defining discourse analysis |
| Week 3 | Preliminaries on language / System and situation |
| Week 4 | Clauses and sentences |
| Week 5 | Identities and discourse |
| Week 6 | Connections and discourse organization |
| Week 7 | Narrative |
| Week 8 | Tools |
| Week 9 | Perspectives, frameworks, and conversation |
| Week 10 | Presentations |
| Week 11 | Presentations |
| Week 12 | Presentations |
| Week 13 | Presentations |
| Week 14 | Reflection and Wrapup |
| Week 15 | FINALS |
Reference Books & Course Materials
- 01 1. McCarthy, M. (1991). Discourse analysis for language teachers (Vol. 8, No. 1). Cambridge: Cambridge university press.
- 02 2. Handford, M., & Gee, J. P. (Eds.). (2023). The Routledge handbook of discourse analysis. routledge.
- 03 3. Gee, J. P. (2018). Introducing discourse analysis: From grammar to society. Routledge.
- 04 4. Lecture notes
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