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Social Discourse Analysis
OVERVIEW
CEA CAPA Partner Institution: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Location: Madrid, Spain
Primary Subject Area: Philosophy
Instruction in: English
Course Code: 16532
Transcript Source: Partner Institution
Course Details: Level 300
Recommended Semester Credits: 3
Contact Hours: 42
DESCRIPTION
Part I: Discourse analysis in the social sciences (7 weeks)
(This part of the module will be taught in English)
1. Theoretical and epistemological foundations
- The linguistic turn and interpretive social science.
- The idea of social construction of reality.
- Discourse, power and ideology.
2. Approaches to discourses analysis: theory and methodology
- Content analysis: quantitative and qualitative
- Frame Analysis and Critical Policy Studies
- Critical Discourse Analysis
Part II: Analysing the language of social discourses: language varieties, discourses and power (7 weeks) (This part of the module will be taught in Spanish)
1. The socio-historical construction of languages and language varieties: implications for discourse.
2. Dominant language varieties, prestige discourses and social structure
- The standard language
- Special languages
- Literary language.
3. Subordinate language varieties, stigmatized discourses and social structure
- Diatopic variation, diastratic variation and submission
- Linguistic insecurity
- Acculturation through language and discourse.
(This part of the module will be taught in English)
1. Theoretical and epistemological foundations
- The linguistic turn and interpretive social science.
- The idea of social construction of reality.
- Discourse, power and ideology.
2. Approaches to discourses analysis: theory and methodology
- Content analysis: quantitative and qualitative
- Frame Analysis and Critical Policy Studies
- Critical Discourse Analysis
Part II: Analysing the language of social discourses: language varieties, discourses and power (7 weeks) (This part of the module will be taught in Spanish)
1. The socio-historical construction of languages and language varieties: implications for discourse.
2. Dominant language varieties, prestige discourses and social structure
- The standard language
- Special languages
- Literary language.
3. Subordinate language varieties, stigmatized discourses and social structure
- Diatopic variation, diastratic variation and submission
- Linguistic insecurity
- Acculturation through language and discourse.
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