AJ52023 Topics in Linguistics: Language and Ideology

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2019
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 7 credit(s) (plus 3 credits for an exam). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Dita Trčková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Jana Chamonikolasová, Ph.D.
Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Tomáš Hanzálek
Supplier department: Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
each even Friday 11:00–12:40 G31
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives (in Czech)
The aim of the course is to exercise students’ critical thinking and develop their critical awareness of discursive devices with ideological underpinnings employed in the media. The students will learn key concepts and tools of critical discourse analysis and will apply these in practice, investigating media representations of minorities. They will learn to interpret a variety of media texts, examining the dialectical relationship between language and society, with the focus on the link between language, power and ideology.
Syllabus (in Czech)
  • 1. Critical discourse analysis: key concepts and tools 2. Gender, identity and the media 3. Media representations of the ethnic Other 4. Political propaganda and the media 5. Representations of sexual minorities in the media
Literature
    recommended literature
  • MACHIN, David and Andrea MAYR. How to do critical discourse analysis : a multimodal approach. 1st ed. London: Sage, 2012, 236 s. ISBN 9780857028921. info
  • RICHARDSON, John E. Analysing newspapers : an approach from critical discourse analysis. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, xi, 268. ISBN 9781403935656. info
Teaching methods (in Czech)
lectures, class discussion, text analysis, reading
Assessment methods (in Czech)
two home assignments (15% + 15%) and a final essay (70 %)
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
General note: This course is NOT designated for Erasmus students! List of courses offerd by the Department of English and American studies for Erasmsus students is available at http://www.phil.muni.cz/wkaa/ under "Information for Erasmus students".
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: This course is NOT designated for Erasmus students! List of courses offerd by the Department of English and American studies for Erasmsus students is available at http://www.phil.muni.cz/wkaa/ under "Information for Erasmus students".
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