Course description
The main aim of this course is to enable students mastering the fundamental concepts of discourse analysis. The course examines theories and approaches of discourse studies, genres of discourse (media, politics, gender, race, classroom, and child), and important factors linked to discursive production, interpretation and analysis.
Pre-requisites
Students are required to acquire knowledge of sub-disciplines of linguistics that are pertaining to this course.Topics to be covered in this course include
Theoretical perspectives/ approaches:
- Cohesion and relevance theory
- Pragmatics: speech act theory
- Rhetoric
- Variation analysis
- Interactional sociolinguistics
- Critical discourse analysis- Teacher: Meriem SERHANI