05.008.200 Seminar: English Linguistics: Power in Language, Language in Power: Critical Discourse Analysis

Lehrende/r: Dr. Florian Dolberg

Veranstaltungsart: Seminar

Anzeige im Stundenplan: 05.008.200

Semesterwochenstunden: 2

Credits: 8,0

Unterrichtssprache: Englisch

Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl: - | 30

Anmeldegruppe: ELing S 200

Prioritätsschema: Senatsrichtlinie
Zulassung gemäß Richtlinie über den Zugang zu teilnahmebeschränkten Lehrveranstaltungen vom 07. März 2007.

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Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
This course is geared towards students who have a pronounced interest in linguistics, who are comfortable with reading a fair amount of at times demanding scientific literature, who are willing to obtain and share information beyond what is directly offered in the seminar, and who are in the habit of freely sharing their insights (and difficulties) both in class and on-line.

All important technical and administrative information will be relayed in the first session only. Participants unable to attend the first session are required to obtain it from their peers.

Participants are required to fulfil all of the following requirements in order to obtain credit:

• complete preparatory reading assignments prior to each session (this entails making notes and annotations),
  
• discuss the relevant texts prior to class on ReaderPlus (i.e. at least one posting on topic per person per week by saturday noon),
  
• actively and regularly partake in in-class discussions on the basis of these discussions, notes and annotations,
  
• collaboratively build and present an acceptable scientific poster on one topic in Critical Discourse Analysis,
  
• evaluate the posters presented by others as well as
  
• write an acceptable empirical term-paper.
  

Inhalt:
This course focuses on how language serves to establish, maintain, and change power relations in modern society. It introduces Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) as a means to analyse language that is used to exert power, thus raising awareness regarding how language is used to persuade and manipulate in social and political contexts, as well as providing some means to resist and change these processes.

Empfohlene Literatur:
Course book: Fairclough, Norman. 2015. Language and Power (3rd ed.). Abingdon: Routledge