WiSe 19/20: S-Socioling. and Varieties of English: Discourse Analysis: Ideology and Identity
Anna Islentyeva
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Course Description
:The seminar introduces some discourse analytical methods applied to the study of texts from different genres (political, media and advertising discourses); it is primarily aimed at the critical investigation of relevant social and political issues. Taking a text as a basic unit of investigation, the seminar shows how corpus linguistic techniques can be combined with methods worked out in critical discourse analysis. It has been widely acknowledged that the role of the modern media is crucial in the construction of ideologies and identities. The seminar aims to investigate unequal power relations that are produced and re-produced in texts of different genres and to reveal which linguistic tools at the grammatical and semantic levels (metaphors, construction of key agents in the discourse) are responsible for these processes.
Course Requirements: regular attendance, active participation (oral presentation, participation in class activities) and a term paper (ca. 4000 words) or a BA thesis
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