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About Study Course

ECTS:3
Course supervisor:Sergejs Kruks
Study type:Full time
Course level:Master's
Target audience:Communication Science; Health Management; Information and Communication Science; Management Science; Political Science; Social Anthropology; Sociology
Language:Latvian
Study course description Full description, Full time
Branch of science:Sociology and social work

Objective

To learn the concepts and methodology of discourse analysis.

Prerequisites

Introduction to Philosophy.

Learning outcomes

Knowledge

1.Knows the main theoretical concepts of relations between language and reality; methodology of text and conversation analysis.

Skills

1.Collection of linguistic data, creation of a minicorpus, extraction of data with Bash and SketchEngine, development of discourse analysis methodology for case study.

Competence

1.Critically evaluate the role of language in meaning making and mantaining of power relations.