Course Leader: Dr Olena Peftiieva
Home Institution: Mariupol State University, Ukraine
Course pre-requisites: Laptop
Course Overview
Critical discourse analysis is meant to acquaint students with the analysis of socio-political written text or speech taking into account the larger real-world context with all of its complexity. It is meant for a broad readership. CDA is a democratic approach which takes an ethical stance on social issues with the aim of improving society.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course students should be in possession of theoretical knowledge of Stylistics and Critical Discourse Analysis; be able to demonstrate critical approach to the text read or talk heard; correlate discourse and society (including social cognition, politics, and culture); improve writing skills.
Course Content
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Course Content |
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The acquaintance with the course plan, seminar and lecture procedure, assessment criteria, and learning outcomes. Lecture 1. Language registers / functional styles of language and basic genres |
Read and study the information “Critical Discourse Analysis” p. 67-80 from the book “Mass Media Critical Reading “. Add information from the reliable sources and be ready to present CDA of an article at the seminar. |
Study the information p.7-33 from the book “Mass Media Critical Reading” and compile bulleted points to elicit from while presenting CDA of a newspaper article |
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Lecture 2. Classification of Language Vocabulary |
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Lecture 3. Syntactical Expressive Means |
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Lecture 4. Lexical Stylistic Devices |
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Lecture 5. Journalistic style. Architectonics of a Newspaper Article. |
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Seminar 1. Individual Work of Student (IWS). Discussion of headline, dateline, byline, leading paragraph, body of article, inference. |
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Seminar 2. Reading of an English article. Vocabulary study: synonyms, definitions, antonyms. |
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Seminar 3. Discussion of the article. Summary. Usage of parenthetical phrases |
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Seminar 4. Individual scientific research presentation (ISRP): Critical discourse analysis – practical usage. Characteristic features of headlines, byline, dateline, leading paragraph |
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Seminar 5. Body of the article. Inverted pyramid. |
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Seminar 6. Subjectivity and Objectivity in article |
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Seminar 7. Recognizing omission and deletion |
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Seminar 8. Insinuations and Presuppositions. Modality. |
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Seminar 9. ISR 1. Recognizing foregrounding and backgrounding |
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Seminar 10. ISR 2. CDA of an English article. |
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Group project 1: Classification of mother tongue vocabulary |
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Group project 2: Syntactical Expressive Means |
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Group project 3: Lexical Stylistic Devices |
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Group project 4: layout of a new approach to CDA |
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Module test. |
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Summing up the results |
Instructional Method
Course includes five lectures on Stylistics and Critical Discourse Analysis, ten seminars, four group projects, and a module test (42 academic hours).
Required Course Materials
Each student will be supplied with two e-books ‘Mass Media Critical Reading’ and ‘Stylistics’; internet resources.
Assessment
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Classroom Activities |
Scores |
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Reading of an article |
5 |
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Discussion |
15 |
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Presentation of Individual Scientific Research (ISR): written CDA of an article – 15; verbal presentation – 15 |
30 |
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Module test (written multiple choice test based on theoretical background) |
30 |
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Individual Work of Student (IWS) |
20 |
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Total |
100 |