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Course Description Status: Approved

Course Description Version: 24/25.R.6.00

Description Period: 2024./25 academic year rudens semestris

Study Course Accepted: -

Study Course Description

Discourse Analysis

Main Study Course Information

Course Code
KSK_025
Branch of Science
Sociology and social work
ECTS
3.00
Target Audience
Communication Science; Health Management; Information and Communication Science; Management Science; Political Science; Social Anthropology; Sociology
LQF
Level 7
Study Type And Form
Full-Time

Study Course Implementer

Course Supervisor
Sergejs Kruks
Structure Unit Manager
Karina Palkova
Structural Unit
Faculty of Social Sciences
Contacts

Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf@rsu.lv

About Study Course

Objective

To learn the concepts and methodology of discourse analysis.

Preliminary Knowledge

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.

Competences

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

Assessment

Individual work

Title
% from total grade
Grade
1.
Individual work
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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.

Examination

Title
% from total grade
Grade
1.
Examination
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Students select texts for the analysis, create a minicorpus, extract key-words and interpret contextual meaning, analyse the use of ambiguous grammatical forms.
2.
Examination
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Individual of group homework: discourse analysis of a text or conversation.

Study Course Theme Plan

FULL-TIME
Semester 1

  1. Theories of meaning.

EventType
Modality
Location
Contact hours
1.
Lecture
Off site
E-Studies platform
2

  1. Meaning of grammatical forms in Latvian.

EventType
Modality
Location
Contact hours
1.
Lecture
Off site
E-Studies platform
2

  1. Extraction of data in SketchEngine programme.

EventType
Modality
Location
Contact hours
1.
Lecture
Off site
E-Studies platform
2
2.
Class/Seminar
On site
Computer room
2
3.
Class/Seminar
On site
Computer room
2

  1. Extraction of data in Bash programme.

EventType
Modality
Location
Contact hours
1.
Lecture
Off site
E-Studies platform
2
2.
Class/Seminar
Off site
E-Studies platform
2
3.
Class/Seminar
Off site
E-Studies platform
2

  1. Critical Discourse Analysis.

EventType
Modality
Location
Contact hours
1.
Lecture
Off site
E-Studies platform
2

  1. Cognitive Discourse Analysis OR DA in Social Anthropology.

EventType
Modality
Location
Contact hours
1.
Lecture
Off site
E-Studies platform
2
Total ECTS (Creditpoints):
3.00
Contact hours:
20 Academic Hours
Final Examination:
Exam (Written)

Bibliography

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.

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