013990 Discourse and Genre
6cp; availability: exchange and study abroad postgraduate students with faculty approvalRequisite(s): 013102 Introducing Knowledge about Language AND 013105 The Multilingual Learner AND 010070 TESOL Practicum AND 028253 TESOL: Methodology
These requisites may not apply to students in certain courses.
There are course requisites for this subject. See access conditions.
Anti-requisite(s): 013087 Discourse Analysis
Postgraduate
Description
This subject focuses on how language is used to shape meaning, identities, relationships, and the world around us. ‘Discourse’ refers to language in use and language that is beyond the level of sentences and grammar. ‘Genres’ are relatively stable and recognisable ways of organising texts and doing things with language. In this subject students look at different ways of doing discourse analysis (such as critical discourse analysis, conversation analysis, and multimodal discourse analysis) and at different ways in which discourse and genre may be socially organised in institutional terms (e.g. education, health, law, religion) and in social terms (e.g. class, gender, race, ethnicity, disability). Students focus on the analysis of real texts (written, spoken, visual, media) and what this tells us about broader social relations and ideology in society. Students are encouraged to develop analysis of discourses and genres in their own workplace or other domains of social life and to apply these skills to pedagogical contexts.
Typical availability
Spring session, City campus
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