[Somean] FW: Spring Discourse Analysis Course

[Campbell-Kibler, Kathryn]

Hey folks,

Here’s the announcement for Galey Modan’s discourse analysis course next semester. Strongly recommended for sociolinguists.

-K

Kathryn Campbell-Kibler
Associate Professor
Department of Linguistics
Ohio State University
campbell-kibler.1 at osu.edu
she/her/hers



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English 7872: Discourse Analysis: Social Contexts (listed as "Seminar in English Language Studies")

Online, synchronous course, Thursdays 1:50-4:50

No prerequisites

For students interested in examining discourse as part of a linguistics, literature, folklore, or other humanities or social science research project, this course will give you the tools to investigate how language structure (not just content) shapes perceptions, values, social interaction, and power struggles. The course provides an overview of the major approaches to analyzing spoken and written discourse used in sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology, including interactional sociolinguistics, conversation analysis, ethnography of communication, pragmatics, and critical discourse analysis. We will explore how the contexts of various spheres of social interaction both shape and are shaped by discourse that occurs in or in relation to them.  The approach that we will take to analyzing texts is a micro-level one, focusing on the details of linguistic structure and how those details connect to more macro spheres of social engagement.  Students will collect examples of spoken and written texts, and analyze them in short paper assignments.

REQUIREMENTS: transcription assignment, discussion leading, 3 short papers, one conference-length final paper.

If you have any questions or would like some more information about the course, please feel free to email me at modan.1 at osu.edu

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