UZFJB968 From text to discours: analysis in theory and practice

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2009
Extent and Intensity
1/1. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Anna Pospěch Durnová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Ladislava Miličková, CSc.
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Dagmar Holoubková
Timetable
Mon 13:20–14:55 G11
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 5 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/5, only registered: 0/5
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Thanks to the developments in our information society, textual communication is gaining ever greater importance. The text, as a coherent (written or oral) unit of language, striving to fulfill or instigate (social) interaction, must needs be subject to historical, social, ideological and stylistic criteria. Thanks largely to the developments in text linguistics and pragmatics from the 1970s onwards; it is the term of "discourse" which has been gaining ground in connection to text analysis. This interdisciplinary term, used nowadays in a multiplicity of meanings, stresses the above criteria as strategic elements in establishing such texts and draws heightened awareness to their purposes and impact. The seminar uses the backdrop of the best-known linguistic and socio-cultural theories of the second half of the 20th century to present an overview of the interpretations of “text” and “discourse”, based on particular analyses. The theoretical part of the seminar will provide information of current analytical tools used in French pragmatic linguistics. The second part will include a discussion forum: texts for analysis feature literature as well as advertizing, political and journalistic texts and even song lyrics and political video-speeches.
Syllabus
  • 18.2. Major linguistic theses: De Saussure, Benveniste, Language, utterance, subject – object, sense, context - discourse, principles of communication 25.2. From structuralism to pragmatism 3.3. French text linguistics: Dominique Mainguenau, Patrick Charaudau, Catherine Kerbrat – Orrecchioni, Jean-Michel Adam 10. 3. A venture into literary analysis: Rabatté, Eco 17.3. A venture into social sciences analysis Fairclough & Foucault 31.3. Analytical framework Mainguenau, Adam 7.4., 14.4., 21.4., 28.4., 5.5. Hands-on analysis
Literature
  • ECO, Umberto. Les limites de l'interprétation. Translated by Myriem Bouzaher. Paris: Bernard Grasset, 1992, 406 s. ISBN 224644781X. info
Assessment methods
Colloquium - analysis of an assigned text Active in-class participation: Czech and French texts: readings, analyses Written test (19.5. 2008) Analysis of an assigned text – oral/written exam
Language of instruction
French
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2008.
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