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Covid-19 Safety Protocol
This course will have 13 residential, in-person sessions. The classroom (F 013) seats 53, and the class will be strictly capped at 30. Although it will likely be possible to leave a protective seat between each student, all class participants should bring protective masks with them in case they are necessary. All students must also have the SwissCovid app installed and activated on their phones; proof may be needed at the start of each session. Students will be expected to wash their hands at the start of every session and again when returning to the classroom after breaks. By the start of the semester, registration in the seminar will be taken as confirmation that students are willing to adhere to this protocol. Every reasonable effort will be made to support students with additional or unexpected health needs; in which case, please make contact with Dr. Mapes as soon as possible to discuss possible accommodations.
From gossip to globalization! This hands-on, survey seminar is designed to introduce students to the study/analysis of everyday spoken and written discourse. We are all dependent on language not just to describe the world, but also to represent (or misrepresent) it and to justify our place in it. Even more importantly, however, we use language to do things: specifically, to construct our identities, to establish and maintain our relationships, and, unavoidably, to exert power and control over others. This is language as social action and as social institution, and both are the focus of discourse studies. In this eclectic field we might examine people gossiping with friends while sitting in front of the TV or we might examine the way TV news-reports represent major social issues like globalization. In fact, this seminar will cover a diverse range of everyday “micro” and “macro” contexts while exploring a number of key approaches and methodologies in discourse studies. In the first half of the semester, we will focus on spoken discourse (e.g. pragmatics, conversation analysis and interactional sociolinguistics) before turning to written discourse (e.g. digital discourse, multimodality and corpus analysis) in the second part of the semester.
REQUIRED READING: The course will rely on a series of articles and chapters made available on ILIAS. We will be working with the following textbooks extensively:
Cameron, Deborah. (2001). Working with Spoken Discourse. London: Sage.
Cameron, Deborah & Panović, Ivan. (2014). Working with Written Discourse. London: Sage.
It is not necessary to purchase these books, unless students prefer to do so. All assigned chapters will be posted on ILIAS or distributed in class. |
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