Universität Wien

400035 SE SE Methods for Doctoral Candidates (2011W)

Analyzing Discourse

Continuous assessment of course work

FR 23.09.2011 13.00-18.00 SR 2 , Berggasse 7, 2.Stock, 1090 Wien
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Max. Teilnehmerzahl: 20

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Language: German

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Wednesday 21.09. 13:00 - 18:00 C0628A Besprechung SoWi, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. III/6. Stock, 1010 Wien
  • Thursday 22.09. 13:00 - 18:00 C0628A Besprechung SoWi, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. III/6. Stock, 1010 Wien
  • Saturday 24.09. 09:00 - 14:00 C0628A Besprechung SoWi, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. III/6. Stock, 1010 Wien

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Aims, contents and method of the course

The interdisciplinary concept of discourse plays a significant role in contemporary social science, social linguistics and cultural studies. Its prominence is evident in the growing number of studies that use the various concepts and methods of discourse analysis to define and explore problems in their respective fields.
The aim of this PhD seminar is partly to investigate the reasons for the explosion of this interest and partly to explore the consequences that the difference between language and discourse should involve for the actual analysis of “data”.
We shall investigate the ways the ‘abstract’ concepts of discourse are meant to be applied to ‘empirical’ research questions, demonstrating the relative gains and losses of the proliferating ‘discourses of discourse’, ranging from the conflation of discourse with talk between two face-to-face interactants to seeing discourse as the only constitutive force of the entire social and cultural world.

Assessment and permitted materials

Assessment:
A succinct and profound discussion of the difference a discoursal approach should make to the students’ PhD project in terms of all three effects of discourse, that is, thematization, membership, and authority. Length: 3-4 single spaced pages, Times New Roman, 12). Deadline: TBA

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Syllabus and readings:

Session 1: The interdisciplinary concept of ‘discourse’

Compulsory readings:
Fran Tonkiss: Analysing Discourse. In: Clive Seale (ed.) Researching Society and Culture. Sage, 1998. 245-260.
Gee, James Paul: Chapter 2. Discourses and Social Languages; Chapter 3. Situated Meanings and Cultural Models. In: An Introduction to Discourse Analysis. Routledge, 1999, 11-39; 40-57.

Recommended readings:
Fairclough, Norman: Discourse and Social Change. Polity Press, 1992.
Foucault, Michel: The Archaeology of Knowledge. Routledge, 1967/2001.
Norris, Sigrid and Rodney H. Jones (eds.): Discourse in Action Introducing Mediated Discourse Analysis. Routledge, 2005.
Wetherell, Margaret, Stephanie Taylor, and Simeon J. Yates (eds.): Discourse Theory and Practice: A Reader. Sage in association with The Open University, 2001.

Session 2: Language, ideology and power

Compulsory readings:
Thompson, Denise: Chapter 2. Ideology: Justifying Domination. Radical Feminism Today. Sage, 2001, 22-35.
Butler, Judith: Chapter 4: Implicit Censorship and Discursive Agency. Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative. Routledge, 1997, 127-163.

Recommended readings:
Austin, J. L. How To Do Things With Words. Harvard University Press, (2nd Edition), 1975.
Billig, Michael: Arguing and Thinking. A rhetorical approach to social psychology. Cambridge University Press, 1996 (2nd edition).
Fairclough, Norman: Language and Power. Longman, 1989, particularly Chapter 10, the addition in the 2nd edition, 2001.
Lazar, M. Michelle (ed.): Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis. Gender, Power, and Ideology in Discourse. Palgrave, 2005.
Lakoff, Robin Tolmach: The Language War. 2000. University of California Press.
Barat, Erzsebet: The troubling internet space of ‘woman’s mind.’ Discourse and Communication. 2009, Vol. 3(4): 126.

Session 3: Language use and identity formation

Compulsory readings:
Bucholtz Mary and Hall, Kira: Language and Identity. In: Alessandro Duranti (ed.) A Companion to Linguistic Anthropology. Blackwell, 2004, 368-388.
Cameron, Deborah and Don Kulick: Chapter 3, What has gender got to do with? In Language and Sexuality. CUP, 2003, 44-73.

Recommended readings:
Bourdieu, Pierre: Part I. A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste. Distinction. Routledge, 1979/1996, 9-96.
Bucholtz, Mary, A. C. Liang, Laurel Sutton (eds): Reinventing Identities: The Gendered Self in Discourse, Oxford University Press, 1999.
Bucholtz, Mary and Hall, Kira (eds.) Gender Articulated: Language and the Socially Constructed Self, Routledge, 1995.
Gal, Susan and Gail Kligman: Chapter 3. Dilemmas of Public and Private. The Politics of Gender After Socialism. Princeton University Press, 2000, 37-62.
Barat, Erzsebet: Les-being and Identity Politics: The Intersectionality of Sexual Identity and Desire. Marie-Luise Kohlke and Luisa Orza (eds.) The Intricacies of Sexual Idioms. Rodopi Press, 2008, 103-128.

Session 4: Consolidation: The three major aspects of discourse and their correposnding analytical categories.

Examination topics

Reading list


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