Discourse Analysis: Course Outline

 

Discourse Analysis

Course Outline

Bs. English

Week 1: Introduction to Discourse

• What is Discourse?
• Features of Discourse
• Text and Discourse
• Types of Discourse: Written, Spoken, Media, Political etc.
• Difference between Spoken and Written Discourse

Week 2: Discourse Analysis

• What is Discourse Analysis?
• A Short History of Discourse Analysis
• Major Contributors
• Quiz 1
• Assignment 1

Week 3: Grammatical Analysis of Discourse

• Cohesion & Coherence
• Cohesive Devices
• Theme & Rheme
• Thematic Progression
• Substitution vs Ellipses

Week 4: Pragmatic Analysis of Discourse

• Language in context
• Speech Act Theory
• Co-operative Principles
• Conversational Implicature
• Politeness Theory
• Positive vs Negative Politeness
• Assignment 2
• Practice Questions
• Substitution and Ellipsis (Worksheet)

Week 5: Analysis of Conversation as Discourse

• Conversation as Discourse
• Structure of conversation
• Analyzing a conversation

Week 6: Discourse and Ideology: Beginning Critical Discourse Analysis

• What is ideology
• Ideology in Discourse
• What is critical Discourse Analysis
• A brief history of CDA
• Foucault & CDA

Week 7: Systemic Functional Linguistics: A Brief Overview

Week 8: Fairclough and CDA

• Language and Society
• Relational-Dialectal Approach-Basics

Week 9: Van Dijk and CDA Language and Power

• Socio-Cognitive Model- Basics

Week 10-15: Doing Analysis

• How to conduct research
• Choosing a Discourse
• Choosing a perspective
• Choosing a suitable method
• A Tool for Analysis: choosing DA, CA or CDA

Week 16: Review and Conclusion

• Review of the course contents
• Summary of key concepts and theories covered
• Final project or presentation.

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