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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.
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