Overview
Lecturer
Alexandra Jacobsen
Seminar tutor
Alexandra Jacobsen
Type of course
Compulsory
Language of instruction
English
Erasmus language
English
Domain
Philology - Masters
Field of study
English Language, Literature and Culture in European Context
Form of education
Full-time
Form of instruction
Class
Credit awarded by
Grade
Teaching methods
Discussion, case studies, collaborative learning
Entry requirements
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Aims
This course focuses on two broad types of specialized discourse, traditional and new-media discourse, on the one hand, and the workplace discourse, on the other.
It aims at engaging students critically with topics like 1) identity construction, 2) power and discourse, and 3) storytelling as discursive strategy.
Another aim of the course is encouraging students to gather data for their analyses from ‘real-life’ contexts.
Course contents
Types of specialized discourses; Media as language use; Media rhetorics; Rhetoric in political speeches; Persuasion and power; Media storytelling: Narrative strategies; Personal narratives as storytelling modes; New-media language and identity construction: Youth and cyber-identities; Gender identity and the workplace discourse; Using humour in the construction of gender identity at work; Integrating professional and gender identity at work; Women and men telling stories at work
Learning outcomes
Awareness and understanding of the critical concepts and the genre conventions which specialized discourses are constructed on;
Use of theoretical framework in analyzing and producing specialized texts.
Assessment
Continuous assessment (50%); final written assignment with oral defense (50%)
Recommended reading
Language and media: A resource book for students
Durant, Alan & Marina Lambrou
Routledge, London & New York, 2009
Gender Talk at Work. Constructing Gender Identity Through Workplace Discourse
Holmes, Janet
Blackwell, Oxford, 2006
Language in the Media: Representations, Identities, Ideologies
Johnson, Sally & Astrid Ensslin (Eds.)
Continuum, London & New York, 2007
"The narrative constitution of identity: A relational and network approach." Theory and Society 23(5)
Somers, Margaret R.
1994 · 605-649