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| Semester | spring semester 2018 |
| Course frequency | Irregular |
| Lecturers | Andreas Langlotz (andreas.langlotz@unibas.ch, Assessor) |
| Content | In Discourse Analysis, a core area of sociolinguistics, language is understood as socially and historically situated practice, rather than a relatively autonomous system of knowledge. This discursive shift in linguistics can also be observed in more recent cognitive science, which has turned away from traditional cognitivism towards accounts of situated, distributed, and (inter)actional cognition. However, along with this development from the individual to the social, many discourse analytical accounts of sense-making (e.g. Conversation Analysis and Discursive Psychology) seem to have basically thrown the cognition baby out with the anti-cognitivist bathwater. While rightfully stressing the social and interactional basis of cognitive representations and processes, they often highlight the social dimensions to the extent of rejecting central cognitive concepts such as cognitive representation or (autonomous) cognitive processing completely. Thereby, they run the risk of analysing social processes of sense-making without having a genuine theory of meaning and understanding. In this lecture, the classical approaches to analysing discourse, i.e. language as social interaction including Pragmatics and Speech Act Theory, Conversation Analysis, Discursive Psychology, Critical Discourse Analysis, Interactional Sociolinguistics and Ethnography of Communication are scrutinised, discussed and reviewed from the perspective of cognitive science in order to detect both the social and the cognitive components that they attribute to processes of sense making. In doing so, students are expected to gain deeper insight into the highly complex and fascinating phenomenon of meaning and sense-making. |
| Learning objectives | - Obtain an overview of the central approaches to Discourse Analysis - Understand and compare their central theoretical assumptions - Scrutinize processes of meaning generation and sense-making in relation to alternative views of cognition and the mind in cognitive science |
| Bibliography | Will be available on ADAM. |
| Comments | Open to MA students and advanced BA students |
| Weblink | ADAM |
| Course application | None |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Use of digital media | Online, optional |
| Course auditors welcome |
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| Modules |
Interphilologische Lehrveranstaltungen für die Slavistik (Master's degree subject: Slavic Studies (Start of studies before 01.08.2013)) Interphilologisches Modul (Bachelor's degree subject: Italian Language and Literature (Start of studies before 01.08.2013)) Modul Advanced English Linguistics (Bachelor's degree subject: English) Modul Deutsche Sprachwissenschaft I (Master's degree subject: German Language and Literature (Start of studies before 01.08.2013)) Modul English Linguistics (Master's degree subject: English) Modul English Sociolinguistics & Cognitive Linguistics (Master's degree subject: English (Start of studies before 01.08.2013)) Modul Extending the View (Linguistics) (Bachelor's degree subject: English (Start of studies before 01.08.2013)) Modul Focusing on the Discipline (Linguistics) (Bachelor's degree subject: English (Start of studies before 01.08.2013)) Modul Forschungspraxis und Vertiefung (Master's degree program: Language and Communication) Modul Interphilologie (Master's degree subject: Italian Language and Literature (Start of studies before 01.08.2013)) Modul Interphilologie: Sprachwissenschaft BA (Bachelor's degree subject: French Language and Literature) Modul Interphilologie: Sprachwissenschaft BA (Bachelor's degree subject: German Language and Literature) Modul Interphilologie: Sprachwissenschaft BA (Bachelor's degree subject: Nordic Philology) Modul Interphilologie: Sprachwissenschaft BA (Bachelor's degree subject: Spanish Language and Literature) Modul Interphilologie: Sprachwissenschaft BA (Bachelor's degree subject: Italian Language and Literature) Modul Interphilologie: Sprachwissenschaft BA (Bachelor's degree subject: English) Modul Interphilologie: Sprachwissenschaft MA (Master's degree subject: Nordic Philology) Modul Interphilologie: Sprachwissenschaft MA (Master's degree subject: Spanish Language and Literature) Modul Interphilologie: Sprachwissenschaft MA (Master's degree subject: German Language and Literature) Modul Interphilologie: Sprachwissenschaft MA (Master's degree subject: Italian Language and Literature) Modul Interphilologie: Sprachwissenschaft MA (Master's degree subject: Latin Philology) Modul Interphilologie: Sprachwissenschaft MA (Master's degree subject: English) Modul Interphilologie: Sprachwissenschaft MA (Master's degree subject: French Language and Literature) Modul Interphilologie: Sprachwissenschaft MA (Master's degree subject: Slavic Studies) Modul Refining Skills in Linguistics (Bachelor's degree subject: English (Start of studies before 01.08.2013)) Modul Research Skills in English Linguistics or Literature (Master's degree subject: English (Start of studies before 01.08.2013)) Modul Sprache als Prozess (Master's degree program: Language and Communication) Modul Sprache und Kognition (Master's degree program: Language and Communication (Start of studies before 01.08.2013)) Modul Sprachen und Individuum (Master's degree subject: French Language and Literature (Start of studies before 01.08.2013)) |
| Assessment format | record of achievement |
| Assessment details | Written test in the last week of the lecture |
| Assessment registration/deregistration | Reg.: course registration; dereg.: not required |
| Repeat examination | one repetition, repetition counts |
| Scale | Pass / Fail |
| Repeated registration | as often as necessary |
| Responsible faculty | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Offered by | Fachbereich Englische Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft |