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Discourse Analysis
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:4.00
Study Course Accepted:04.03.2024 08:58:07
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | KSK_025 | LQF level: | Level 7 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Sociology | Target Audience: | Political Science; Information and Communication Science; Social Anthropology; Communication Science; Health Management; Management Science; Sociology | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Sergejs Kruks | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf rsu[pnkts]lv | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 6 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 12 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 4 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 8 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 20 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Introduction to Philosophy. | ||||||||
| Objective: | To learn the concepts and methodology of discourse analysis. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Theories of meaning. | Lectures | 1.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
| 2 | Meaning of grammatical forms in Latvian. | Lectures | 1.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
| 3 | Extraction of data in SketchEngine programme. | Lectures | 1.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
| Classes | 2.00 | computer room | |||||||
| 4 | Extraction of data in Bash programme. | Lectures | 1.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
| Classes | 2.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||||
| 5 | Critical Discourse Analysis. | Lectures | 1.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
| 6 | Cognitive Discourse Analysis OR DA in Social Anthropology. | Lectures | 1.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Literature study, case study. In order to evaluate the quality of the study course as a whole, the student must fill out the study course evaluation questionnaire on the Student Portal. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | Individual of group homework: discourse analysis of a text or conversation. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | Knows the main theoretical concepts of relations between language and reality; methodology of text and conversation analysis. | ||||||||
| Skills: | Collection of linguistic data, creation of a minicorpus, extraction of data with Bash and SketchEngine, development of discourse analysis methodology for case study. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | Critically evaluate the role of language in meaning making and mantaining of power relations. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Wodak, Ruth and and Michael Meyer (eds). (2015) Methods of Critical Discourse Studies. 3rd ed. London: Sage. Ch.11. | ||||||||
| 2 | Wooffitt, R. (2005) Conversation analysis and Discourse analysis. London: Sage. Ch.9. | ||||||||
| 3 | Lycan, W.G. 2018. Phiylosophy of Language. London: Routledge. 3rd ed. pp.3-8, 76-99. | ||||||||
| 4 | Fairclough, N. (2010) Critical Discourse Analysis. London: Routledge. | ||||||||
| 5 | van Dijk, T. (2014) Discourse and Knowledge. Oxford University Press. | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Kruks, S. (2011) “Evicting the Speaking Subject: A Critique of the Latvian Concepts of Language”. Journal of Baltic Studies 42(4): 447-63. | ||||||||
| 2 | Kruks, S., I. Skulte. (2016) „Politikas izzušana Saeimas diskursā”. Latvijas Zinātņu akadēmijas Vēstis 3:49-56. (latviešu plūsmai) | ||||||||
| 3 | Skulte, I. un N. Kozlovs. (2018) "Depoliticization of the Saeima Debates: Loosing the Gist of ‘Welfare’." Pp. 171-186 in Kruk, S. (ed.) Pluralism Anxiety. Acting Socially in Latvia. Riga: Riga Stradiņš University. | ||||||||
| 4 | Kruks, S. (2020) “Uzticības, sadarbības un vienotības konceptu izpratne Nacionālajā attīstības plānā 2021.-2027. gadam”. Akadēmiskā Dzīve 56: 131-147. (latviešu plūsmai) | ||||||||
| 5 | Ledin, Per and David Machin. (2020) Introduction to Multimodal Analysis. London: Bloomsbury. | ||||||||
| 6 | van Dijk, T. (2008) Discourse and Context. London: Sage, | ||||||||
| 7 | Ahearn, Laura M. (2012) Living Language. An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. Ch. 8-12. | ||||||||
| 8 | Kruk, S. (2024) Ambiguous Grammar of Legal Discourse”. Letonica 53. | ||||||||
| 9 | Richardson, John. (2007) Analysing Newspapers. Basingstock: Palgrave Macmillan. | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
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