Objectives and competences
Students:
– are familiar with basic principles and concepts in CDA;
– understand how discourse figures in social processes, social structures, and social change;
– are introduced to various theoretical and methodological approaches to CDA;
– adopt methodology for their own CDA of selected discourse.
Content (Syllabus outline)
1. Discourse as a multidimensional, multimodal and multifunctional phenomenon.
2. The relationship between discourse and social reality.
3. Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) – definition, aims, histories, important concepts (power, dominance, ideology, hegemony, concept of critical …), interdisciplinarity.
4. Review of approaches to CDA (Socio-Cognitive, Discourse-Historical, Dialectical-Relational, Socio-Semantic).
5. Methodological framework (perspective, representating social actors, representing social actions, recontextualization of the elements of social practices, discursive construction of legitimation).
6. Doing CDA – case studies.
Learning and teaching methods
Lectures, group discussion, študije primerov, seminar exercises with emphasis on interdisciplinary approach.
The information and communications technology is used for educational purposes in the teaching and learning process.
Intended learning outcomes - knowledge and understanding
Students should be able to:
– place CDA in the context of contemporary discursive theories;
– develop critical literacy;
– analyze the role discourse plays in legitimation of existing power relations and inequality in social relations;
– critically reflect on the relationship between discourse and social reality;
– reconsider socio-political dynamics in the framework of a critical approach to discourse.
Readings
Temeljna literatura:
Norman FAIRCLOUGH, Ruth WODAK, 1997: Critical Discourse Analysis. Discourse as Social Interaction. Ur. Teun van Dijk. London: Sage. 258-284.
David MACHIN, Andrea MAYR, 2012: How To Do Critical Discourse Analysis. London: Sage.
Teun VAN DIJK, 1993: Principles of Critical Discourse Analysis. Discourse and Society 4/2, 249–283.
Theo VAN LEEUWEN, 2008: Discourse and Practice. New Tools for Critical Discourse Analysis. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Ruth WODAK, 2009: Za kaj gre v KAD – Pregled zgodovine, pomembnih konceptov in razvoja. Šolsko polje XX/5–6, 7–23.
Revije:
CADAAD Journal. Dostop: http://cadaad.net/journal.
Critical Discourse Studies. Dostop: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcds20/current#.UqMbVvTuJNg.
Discourse & Society. Dostop: https://journals.sagepub.com/home/das .
– Razprave s podrocja KDA v slovenskem znanstvenem tisku.
Additional information on implementation and assessment Participating in discussion. 10 %
Seminar exercises (presentation and critical evaluation in group). 40 %
Oral exam. 50 %
