FSS:ZURn6219 Discourse theory - Course Information
ZURn6219 Discourse theory, selected chapters
Faculty of Social StudiesSpring 2025
The course is not taught in Spring 2025
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/1/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- Mgr. et Mgr. Kateřina Kirkosová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- Mgr. et Mgr. Kateřina Kirkosová, Ph.D.
Department of Media Studies and Journalism – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Ing. Bc. Pavlína Brabcová - Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
- Course objectives
- The aim of the course is to provide students with a deeper insight into discourse as a concept, to overview the term’s historical formation and discuss its various ways of application within works of key theoreticians.
- Learning outcomes
- Students will be able to:
- understand discourse as a theoretical and methodological concept
- differentiate between the use of discourse in linguistics, humanities and social sciences
- discuss the function of discourse in representing and constructing social reality
- explain the links and overlaps among discourse, power and politics - Syllabus
- 1. Course introduction
- 2. Basics from Structuralism: structure, difference, relations
- 3. Basics from Pragmatics: performative function of language
- 4. Structuralism and poststructuralism: continuities and revisions
- 5. Foucault: discourse, knowledge, power
- 6. Bourdieu: diskurz vs. habitus
- 7. Habermas: discourse, rationality and public sphere
- 8. Laclau and Mouffle: discourse articulation and hegemony
- 9. Said: discourse and Orientalism
- 10. Hall: discourse of Thatcherism and neoliberalism
- Literature
- The discourse studies reader : main currents in theory and analysis. Edited by Johannes Angermüller - Dominique Maingueneau - Ruth Wodak. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2014, vii, 417. ISBN 9789027270184. info
- SAID, Edward W. Orientalismus : západní koncepce Orientu. Translated by Petra Nagyová. Vyd. 1. Praha: Paseka, 2008, 459 s. ISBN 9788071859215. info
- ANDERSEN, Niels Åkerstrøm. Discursive analytical strategies : understanding Foucault, Koselleck, Laclau, Luhmann. Bristol: The Policy Press, 2003, xxii, 135. ISBN 1861344392. info
- LACLAU, Ernesto and Chantal MOUFFE. Hegemony and socialist strategy : towards a radical democratic politics. 2nd ed. London: Verso, 2001, xix, 198. ISBN 1859843301. info
- FOUCAULT, Michel. Slová a veci : archeológia humanitných vied. Translated by Mária Marcelliová - Miroslav Marcelli. Druhé vydanie. Bratislava: Kalligram, 2000, 396 stran. ISBN 8071493309. info
- HABERMAS, Jürgen. Strukturální přeměna veřejnosti : zkoumání jedné kategorie občanské společnosti. Translated by Alena Bakešová - Josef Velek. Vyd. 1. Praha: Filosofia, 2000, 418 s. ISBN 8070071346. info
- BOURDIEU, Pierre. Language and symbolic power. Edited by John B. Thompson, Translated by Gino Raymond - Matthew Adamson. First published. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1992, ix, 302. ISBN 9780745610344. info
- Teaching methods
- Seminar, reading, discussion
- Assessment methods
- Position papers, presentations, essays
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
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