Module Details
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Title ANALYSING DISCOURSE 2
Code ENGL370
Coordinator Dr KN Simms
English
Knsimms@liverpool.ac.uk
Year CATS Level Semester CATS Value
Session 2022-23 Level 6 FHEQ Second Semester 15

Aims

The aim of this module is to equip students with a knowledge of how discourse works at linguistic, metalinguistic, and paralinguistic levels. Students will be exposed to a wide range of discourse types and will learn methodologies (and their theoretical bases) available for analysing them, especially with a view to exposing meanings which would otherwise remain hidden.

Learning Outcomes

(LO1) Students will gain the ability to understand the theoretical principles behind discourse analysis.

(LO2) Students will be able to identify a range of discourse types.

(LO3) Students will gain the ability to collect discourse data and analyse them according to an appropriate methodology.

(LO4) Students will gain the ability to understand the implicit or concealed ideology that motivates discourse.

(S1) Discourse analysis

(S2) Communication (oral, written and visual) - Presentation skills

(S3) Critical thinking and problem solving - Critical analysis

(S4) Critical thinking and problem solving - Evaluation

Syllabus
 

The module will begin with a theoretical overview that will introduce the principles behind discourse analysis, and the methodologies available for analysing discourse. A number of different discourse types will then be examined in turn. They will include:

• The discourse of news reporting
• The discourse of advertising
• Popular writing (magazine features, etc.)
• Institutional discourse
• Political discourse
• Legal discourse
• Academic discourse

Each topic will be introduced by way of weekly lecture. A follow-up workshop will then analyse samples of discourse supplied by both the tutor and the students themselves.

Teaching and Learning Strategies

Teaching method 1: 90-minute lectures
Description: Lectures will introduce the generic methodologies of discourse analysis, and/or the specific techniques of discourse analysis pertaining to various discourse types.
Attendance Recorded: No

Teaching method 2: 90-minute seminars
Description: In seminars, students will engage in practical discourse analysis, applied to samples of discourse supplied by both the tutor and the students themselves.
Attendance Recorded: Yes
Scheduled directed student hours: 36
Unscheduled directed student hours: 114

Notes:
Description of how self-directed learning hours may be used: Sourcing and selecting material for analysis; seminar preparation; presentation and project research and writing.

Teaching Schedule
  Lectures Seminars Tutorials Lab Practicals Fieldwork Placement Other TOTAL
Study Hours 18

 18

         36
Timetable (if known)              
Private Study 114
TOTAL HOURS 150

Assessment
EXAM Duration Timing
(Semester)		 % of
final
mark		 Resit/resubmission
opportunity		 Penalty for late
submission		 Notes
             
CONTINUOUS Duration Timing
(Semester)		 % of
final
mark		 Resit/resubmission
opportunity		 Penalty for late
submission		 Notes
Presentation There is a resit opportunity. A mark of 0 will be awarded for non-attendance. This is not an anonymous assessment.  5    20       
Project proposal  0    0       
Project This includes a notional 1,000 words of data: the Project itself is expected to be approx. 3,000 words. There is a resit opportunity. Standard UoL penalty applies for late submission. Th  0    80       

Recommended Texts
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