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| Semester | fall semester 2023 |
| Course frequency | Once only |
| Lecturers | Thomas Messerli (thomas.messerli@unibas.ch, Assessor) |
| Content | Broadly speaking, discourse analysis focuses on language use in context, on sequences of interactions and the meaning that these interactions have for the participants involved as well as for us as linguistic analysts. Since interaction online, and more broadly interaction mediated through technical, digital, devices, comes with its own affordances, it has given rise to practices that in part can be regarded relative to pre-existing spoken and written interactions, e.g., by contrasting digital actions and interaction with non-digital, analogue linguistic behaviour. In other cases, for example when it comes to turn-taking and the interactional organization of talk, we may need to re-consider whether existing frameworks and categories can help us to capture what is happening in digital discourse in a satisfactory manner, or whether we need new frameworks and theoretical model to explain how meaning is co-constructed by digital interlocutors. In this seminar, we will approach digital discourses from two angles. On the one hand, we will use a theory-driven lens to revisit conversation and discourse analytic theories and assess how well they fare at explaining the particularities on digitally mediated interactions. On the other hand we will approach the topic at hand in a data-driven fashion, with the aim of opening up the whole gamut of digital discourses that has arisen and keeps popping up around us. |
| Learning objectives | By the end of the course, students will have learned about and worked with conversation and discourse analytic theories and will have thought about and worked with their application to digital discourses in particular. They will have applied different models and tools to a range of digitally mediated practices, will have made used of different methods of digital discourse analysis and will have gained experience in matching methods and research aims. |
| Bibliography | All obligatory reading for the course will be made available on ADAM. |
| Weblink | ADAM |
| Admission requirements | This course is open to students of English who have passed all three BA introductory modules and to MA students of English and MSG Sprache und Kommunikation. |
| Course application | Please register for this course on services unibas. In order to ensure a good learning environment, we aim at no more than 20 students per linguistics seminar. We ask you to sign up for classes via the ADAM registration surveys, which will open on August 2, 2023, 10am (CEST) and close on September 19, 2023, 2pm (CEST): https://adam.unibas.ch/goto_adam_crs_1623802.html. **Please only register for a maximum of TWO seminars and only for more than one if you really intend to take both courses.** Should you have not made it into one of the courses and you are only able to register on the list in a position higher than 20, we guarantee that we will take you in the course with the least student numbers. |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Use of digital media | Online, mandatory |
| Interval | Weekday | Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
| wöchentlich | Thursday | 08.15-10.00 | Nadelberg 6, Raum 11 |
| Date | Time | Room |
|---|---|---|
| Thursday 21.09.2023 | 08.15-10.00 | Nadelberg 6, Raum 11 |
| Thursday 28.09.2023 | 08.15-10.00 | Nadelberg 6, Raum 11 |
| Thursday 05.10.2023 | 08.15-10.00 | Nadelberg 6, Raum 11 |
| Thursday 12.10.2023 | 08.15-10.00 | Nadelberg 6, Raum 11 |
| Thursday 19.10.2023 | 08.15-10.00 | Nadelberg 6, Raum 11 |
| Thursday 26.10.2023 | 08.15-10.00 | Nadelberg 6, Raum 11 |
| Thursday 02.11.2023 | 08.15-10.00 | Nadelberg 6, Raum 11 |
| Thursday 09.11.2023 | 08.15-10.00 | Nadelberg 6, Raum 11 |
| Thursday 16.11.2023 | 08.15-10.00 | Nadelberg 6, Raum 11 |
| Thursday 23.11.2023 | 08.15-10.00 | Nadelberg 6, Raum 11 |
| Thursday 30.11.2023 | 08.15-10.00 | Nadelberg 6, Raum 11 |
| Thursday 07.12.2023 | 08.15-10.00 | Nadelberg 6, Raum 11 |
| Thursday 14.12.2023 | 08.15-10.00 | Nadelberg 6, Raum 11 |
| Thursday 21.12.2023 | 08.15-10.00 | Nadelberg 6, Raum 11 |
| Modules |
Modul: Advanced English Linguistics (Bachelor's degree subject: English) Modul: English Linguistics (Master's degree subject: English) Modul: Forschungspraxis und Vertiefung (Master's degree program: Language and Communication) Modul: Sprache als Prozess (Master's degree program: Language and Communication) |
| Assessment format | continuous assessment |
| Assessment details | regular and active participation; preparatory reading; depending on the size of the group, students will be required to give an individual oral presentation or they will have to do an equivalent group task; the written assessment will be in the form of a short data analysis (around 1’500 words, details will be provided in the first two weeks of the course) |
| Assessment registration/deregistration | Reg.: course registration; dereg.: not required |
| Repeat examination | no repeat examination |
| Scale | Pass / Fail |
| Repeated registration | no repetition |
| Responsible faculty | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Offered by | Fachbereich Englische Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft |