Syllabus
Main Themes
• What is discourse
• Text Linguistics: Thematic Progression
• Narrative Analysis: W. Labov’s Structural Approach
• Narrative Analysis as Methodology: Language Biographies
• Media Dialogical Networks
• Bakhtinian Research
• Foucaultian Approaches
• Critical Approaches to Discourse (Critical Discourse Analysis, American Linguistic Anthropology, Noam Chomsky)
Annotation
This course introduces students to major approaches to discourse analysis as it is practiced in various branches of social research including linguistics. A particular focus is on the themes and concepts characteristic of Central European research such as thematic progression, language biographies, and media dialogical networks.