Claim up to $1,000 in flight credits!
Get up to $1,000 in flight credits or grants toward study or internship programs abroad when you apply by September 12, 2024. See our Official Rules for full details.
Social Discourse Analysis
Business, Management & Finance Program
Madrid, Spain
Dates: 1/16/20 - 5/30/20
Social Discourse Analysis
OVERVIEW
CEA CAPA Partner Institution: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Location: Madrid, Spain
Primary Subject Area: Philosophy
Instruction in: English
Course Code: 16532
Transcript Source: Partner Institution
Course Details: Level 300
Recommended Semester Credits: 3
Contact Hours: 42
DESCRIPTION
Part I: Discourse analysis in the social sciences (7 weeks)
(This part of the module will be taught in English)
1. Theoretical and epistemological foundations
- The linguistic turn and interpretive social science.
- The idea of social construction of reality.
- Discourse, power and ideology.
2. Approaches to discourses analysis: theory and methodology
- Content analysis: quantitative and qualitative
- Frame Analysis and Critical Policy Studies
- Critical Discourse Analysis
Part II: Analysing the language of social discourses: language varieties, discourses and power (7 weeks) (This part of the module will be taught in Spanish)
1. The socio-historical construction of languages and language varieties: implications for discourse.
2. Dominant language varieties, prestige discourses and social structure
- The standard language
- Special languages
- Literary language.
3. Subordinate language varieties, stigmatized discourses and social structure
- Diatopic variation, diastratic variation and submission
- Linguistic insecurity
- Acculturation through language and discourse.
(This part of the module will be taught in English)
1. Theoretical and epistemological foundations
- The linguistic turn and interpretive social science.
- The idea of social construction of reality.
- Discourse, power and ideology.
2. Approaches to discourses analysis: theory and methodology
- Content analysis: quantitative and qualitative
- Frame Analysis and Critical Policy Studies
- Critical Discourse Analysis
Part II: Analysing the language of social discourses: language varieties, discourses and power (7 weeks) (This part of the module will be taught in Spanish)
1. The socio-historical construction of languages and language varieties: implications for discourse.
2. Dominant language varieties, prestige discourses and social structure
- The standard language
- Special languages
- Literary language.
3. Subordinate language varieties, stigmatized discourses and social structure
- Diatopic variation, diastratic variation and submission
- Linguistic insecurity
- Acculturation through language and discourse.