RLMgB607 Discourse analysis of cultural representations

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2024

The course is not taught in Autumn 2024

Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Taught in person.
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Milan Fujda, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. PhDr. David Václavík, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Jana Valtrová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Milan Fujda, Ph.D.
Department for the Study of Religions – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Kristýna Čižmářová
Supplier department: Department for the Study of Religions – Faculty of Arts
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 30 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/30, only registered: 0/30, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/30
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course aims to guide students through the possibilities of discursive analysis of various types of textual and audiovisual representations and to enable them to acquire elementary procedures of the discursive analytical approach to data about cultural encounters and their embodiment in discourse. Through guided readings and micro-assignments discussed in the seminars, learners gradually acquire discourse analysis procedures of different types of material (re)presenting the Other and the Self throughout cultural encounters.
Learning outcomes
After completing the course, students:
  • understand the concepts of "discourse", "text", "context", "intertextuality" and "genre" and understand their analytical meaning and implications;
  • learn to focus attention on a priori textual (re)presentations and analyze them as starting points for their construction;
  • analyze the semantic, syntactic, and rhetorical tools for constructing textual (re)presentations and situate modes of communication in social, political, and cultural contexts;
  • approach speaking as a mode of action with intended and unintended effects;
  • understand how reality is discursively constructed and can analyze this construction concerning its a priori, intentions, strategies and tactics, effects and consequences, and institutional connections.
    • Syllabus
    • Introductory lesson
    • Discourse, text, genre, intertextuality, context - introduction to discursive analysis of cultural (re)presentations (seminar with discussion + home reading)
    • Discursive analysis of textual (re)presentation (seminar + homework) Discursive analysis of (audio)visual (re)presentations (seminar + homework)
    • Discursive analysis of interaction (interviews, discussions, focus groups) (seminar + home micro-task)
    • The development of discursive (re)presentations (discourse and history) (seminar + home micro-task)
    • Discursive analysis of scholarly research, postcolonial critique, decolonialism (seminar + home micro-assignment)
    Literature
      required literature
    • Wodak, Ruth, “The Discourse - Historical Approach”, In: Wodak, Ruth - Meyer, Michael (ed.). Methods of critical discourse analysis. Introducing qualitative methods. London: SAGE Publications, 2001, s. 63-94.
    • Wodak, Ruth - Krzyźanowski (eds.), Qualitative Discourse Analysis in the Social Sciences. New York - Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2008.
    • Leeuwen, Theo van, Discourse and Practice: New Tools for Critical Discourse Analysis. New York: Oxford University Press 2008.
      recommended literature
    • Holstein, James A. - Jaber E Gubrium, "Interpretative Practice and Social Action", In: Norman K. Denzin - Yvonna S. Lincoln, The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research, third edition, Thousand Oaks - London - New Delhi: Sage Publications 2005, s. 483-506.
    • Gee, James Paul. An introduction to discourse analysis: theory and method. Fourth edition. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.
    • Fairclough, Norman, Analysing Discourse: Textual analysis for social research. London - New York: Routledge 2003.
    • Wodak, Ruth - Meyer, Michael (eds.). Methods of critical discourse analysis: Introducing qualitative methods, London: SAGE Publications, 2001.
    Teaching methods
    Lectures and seminar discussions on assigned readings and assignments, practical research assignments, and a seminar presentation.
    Assessment methods
    presence at seminars, active seminar participation, seminar presentation
    Language of instruction
    Czech
    Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
    The course is taught once in two years.
    The course is taught: every other week.
    Information on course enrolment limitations: Zápis mimo religionistiku je podmíněn souhlasem vyučujících.
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