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Discourse analysis examines the relationship between language and its social and cultural context. The use of language is formed by how its users view the world; similarly identity and world views are constructed through discourse. Discourse analysts look at patterns of language across texts or speech using a variety of methods, focusing on sociolinguistic, multimodal, corpus or conversation features. In this seminar, we will examine the various ways in which this linguistic discipline explores language in context with the help of practical examples. A list of topics for presentations and research will be available in the first seminar session. The accompanying voluntary tutorial offers students individual advice on the topics discussed in the seminar. Near the end of the semester, a paper conference will be held to make sure students are headed in the right direction with their term papers. During the semester, students will also perform hands-on research by recording and transcribing conversations in the context of our Corpus of Academic Spoken English (CASE) corpus. The transcript will also count towards course credit. For detailed course requirements please also consult the respective module descriptions. |
