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Discourse Analysis (KSK_025)
About Study Course
Department: Faculty of Social Sciences
Credit points / ECTS:2 / 3
Course supervisor:Sergejs Kruks
Study type:Full time
Course level:Master's
Target audience:Political Science; Information and Communication Science; Social Anthropology; Communication Science; Health Management; Management Science; Sociology
Language:English, Latvian
Branch of science:Sociology
Objective
To learn the concepts and methodology of discourse analysis.
Prerequisites
Introduction to Philosophy.
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.
Competence
Critically evaluate the role of language in meaning making and mantaining of power relations.
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