Veidlapa Nr. M-3 (8)
Study Course Description
Corpus Analysis
Course Code
KF_026
Branch of Science
Media and communications
ECTS
3.00
Target Audience
Communication Science; Information and Communication Science; Management Science; Political Science; Sociology
LQF
Level 8
Study Type And Form
Full-Time
Study Course Implementer
Course Supervisor
Sergejs Kruks
Structure Unit Manager
Ieva Puzo
Structural Unit
Faculty of Social Sciences
Contacts
Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf@rsu.lv
About Study Course
Objective
To teach the use of corpus linguistics in public communication analysis.
Preliminary Knowledge
Communication and cultural theories, Quantitative research methods, Qualitative research methods.
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge
1.Students know and understand the corpus analysis methodology, understand concepts, know literature on the occurrence of a meaning in a language.
Skills
1.Students identify and critically analyse public communication challenges in the aspect of use of discourse, justify their opinion, communicate orally and in writing on corpus analysis with representatives of other fields of science and society, quantitatively and qualitatively analyse corpora linguistics, create a corpus for their research.
Competences
1.Use obtained knowledge in the analysis of practical cases of public communication, as well as in the development of a doctoral thesis.
Assessment
Individual work
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1.
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Work with required readings; report – corpus analysis for the needs of the doctoral thesis.
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Examination
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1.
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Successfully conducted research – corpus analysis.
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Study Course Theme Plan
FULL-TIME
Part 1
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Lecture
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On site
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Auditorium
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2
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Topics
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Meanings of a word. Dictionary and encyclopaedia. Semantics, syntaxis and pragmatics.
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Auditorium
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2
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Topics
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Cognitive discourse analysis. Text and context.
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Auditorium
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2
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Topics
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Corpus linguistics.
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Auditorium
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2
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Topics
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Analysis of concordances.
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Auditorium
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2
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Topics
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Analysis of grammatical forms.
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Auditorium
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2
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Speech and political position: parliamentary discourse corpus.
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Class/Seminar
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Modality
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Location
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On site
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Auditorium
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2
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Topics
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Work with Saeima and Latvian corpus linguistics “saeima.korpuss.lv” and “nosketch.korpuss.lv”.
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Class/Seminar
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Auditorium
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2
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Work with corpora of news portals “barometrs.korpuss.lv” and ad hoc corpora in the MonoConc software.
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Total ECTS (Creditpoints):
3.00
Contact hours:
16 Academic Hours
Final Examination:
Exam (Written)
Bibliography
Required Reading
1.
Van Dijk, T. (2008) Discourse and Context. A Sociocognitive Approach. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2.
Van Dijk, T. (2009) Society and Discourse. How Social Contexts Influence Text and Talk. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
3.
Van Dijk, T. (2014) Discourse as Knowledge. A Sociocognitive Approach. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
4.
Weisser Martin (2016) Practical Corpus Linguistics. An Introduction to Corpus-Based Language Analysis. Oxford: Wiley.
5.
Bertie Kaal, Isa Maks, Annemarie van Elfrinkhof (eds) (2015) From Text to Political Positions. Text analysis across disciplines. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
6.
Darģis, R., G. Rābante-Buša, I. Auziņa, S. Kruks (2016) „ParliSearch – a system for large text corpus discourse analysis”. Pp. 115-121 in I. Skadiņa, R. Rozis (eds) Human Language Technologies – The Baltic Perspective. IOS Press.
7.
Kruks, S., I. Skulte (2016) „Politikas izzušana Saeimas diskursā”, Latvijas Zinātņu akadēmijas Vēstis 3:49-56.
8.
Skulte, I., N. Kozlovs (2018) Depoliticization of the Saeima Debates: Loosing the Gist of ‘Welfare’. In S. Kruk (ed.) Pluralism Anxiety. Riga: RSU.
Additional Reading
1.
Paul Baker and Tony McEnery (eds) (2015) Corpora and Discourse Studies. Integrating Discourse and Corpora. London: Palgrave.
2.
O’Keeffe, Anne and Michael McCarthy (eds) (2010) The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics. London: Routledge.
3.
Jurg Steiner, Andr ¨E B ´ Achtigrt, Markus¨. Sporndli, and Marco R. Steennbergen (2005) Deliberative Politics in Action. Analyzing Parliamentary Discourse. Cambridge University Press.