Universität Wien

122220 SE Linguistics Seminar / BA Paper (2021W)

Political Communication

11.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik
Continuous assessment of course work
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Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 18 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

This is an online/digital course.

  • Wednesday 06.10. 16:15 - 17:45 Digital
  • Wednesday 13.10. 16:15 - 17:45 Digital
  • Wednesday 20.10. 16:15 - 17:45 Digital
  • Wednesday 27.10. 16:15 - 17:45 Digital
  • Wednesday 03.11. 16:15 - 17:45 Digital
  • Wednesday 10.11. 16:15 - 17:45 Digital
  • Wednesday 17.11. 16:15 - 17:45 Digital
  • Wednesday 24.11. 16:15 - 17:45 Digital
  • Wednesday 01.12. 16:15 - 17:45 Digital
  • Wednesday 15.12. 16:15 - 17:45 Digital
  • Wednesday 12.01. 16:15 - 17:45 Digital
  • Wednesday 19.01. 16:15 - 17:45 Digital
  • Wednesday 26.01. 16:15 - 17:45 Digital

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Assessment and permitted materials

Course evaluation is based on:
60% seminar paper
20% paper proposal
20% short presentation

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

The minimum requirements for passing the course are:
• regular attendance (max. 2 absences)
• handing in the proposal
• giving the oral presentation (on set date)
• handing in the seminar paper (on time)
The pass rate is > 60%. To pass the course successfully, the final seminar paper has to be positive; if it is not, the whole course is an automatic fail. Final grades & points (%) achieved: Sehr gut: 90-100; Gut: 80-89; Befriedigend: 70-79; Genügend: 60-69; Nicht Genügend: 0-59

Examination topics

Students:
- will learn about discourse analysis in the form of the Discourse-Historical Approach
- will engage with political communication as discourse (in anglopohone countries)
- will learn how to plan a small-scale empirical study
- will learn to select, compile and prepare empirical data for analysis
- will learn how to contextualise discourses
- will learn how to apply theoretical concepts
- will learn how to analyse different levels of linguistic realization
- will learn how to write an empirical paper

Reading list

will be announced on Moodle and in the course itself

Association in the course directory

Studium: BA 612
Code/Modul: BA06.2
Lehrinhalt: 12-2222

Last modified: Fr 12.05.2023 00:16