ZURn6219 Discourse theory, selected chapters

Faculty of Social Studies
Spring 2025

The course is not taught in Spring 2025

Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. et Mgr. Kateřina Kirkosová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. et Mgr. Kateřina Kirkosová, Ph.D.
Department of Media Studies and Journalism – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Ing. Bc. Pavlína Brabcová
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
Course objectives
The aim of the course is to provide students with a deeper insight into discourse as a concept, to overview the term’s historical formation and discuss its various ways of application within works of key theoreticians.
Learning outcomes
Students will be able to:
- understand discourse as a theoretical and methodological concept
- differentiate between the use of discourse in linguistics, humanities and social sciences
- discuss the function of discourse in representing and constructing social reality
- explain the links and overlaps among discourse, power and politics
Syllabus
  • 1. Course introduction
  • 2. Basics from Structuralism: structure, difference, relations
  • 3. Basics from Pragmatics: performative function of language
  • 4. Structuralism and poststructuralism: continuities and revisions
  • 5. Foucault: discourse, knowledge, power
  • 6. Bourdieu: diskurz vs. habitus
  • 7. Habermas: discourse, rationality and public sphere
  • 8. Laclau and Mouffle: discourse articulation and hegemony
  • 9. Said: discourse and Orientalism
  • 10. Hall: discourse of Thatcherism and neoliberalism
Literature
  • The discourse studies reader : main currents in theory and analysis. Edited by Johannes Angermüller - Dominique Maingueneau - Ruth Wodak. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2014, vii, 417. ISBN 9789027270184. info
  • SAID, Edward W. Orientalismus : západní koncepce Orientu. Translated by Petra Nagyová. Vyd. 1. Praha: Paseka, 2008, 459 s. ISBN 9788071859215. info
  • ANDERSEN, Niels Åkerstrøm. Discursive analytical strategies : understanding Foucault, Koselleck, Laclau, Luhmann. Bristol: The Policy Press, 2003, xxii, 135. ISBN 1861344392. info
  • LACLAU, Ernesto and Chantal MOUFFE. Hegemony and socialist strategy : towards a radical democratic politics. 2nd ed. London: Verso, 2001, xix, 198. ISBN 1859843301. info
  • FOUCAULT, Michel. Slová a veci : archeológia humanitných vied. Translated by Mária Marcelliová - Miroslav Marcelli. Druhé vydanie. Bratislava: Kalligram, 2000, 396 stran. ISBN 8071493309. info
  • HABERMAS, Jürgen. Strukturální přeměna veřejnosti : zkoumání jedné kategorie občanské společnosti. Translated by Alena Bakešová - Josef Velek. Vyd. 1. Praha: Filosofia, 2000, 418 s. ISBN 8070071346. info
  • BOURDIEU, Pierre. Language and symbolic power. Edited by John B. Thompson, Translated by Gino Raymond - Matthew Adamson. First published. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1992, ix, 302. ISBN 9780745610344. info
Teaching methods
Seminar, reading, discussion
Assessment methods
Position papers, presentations, essays
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
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