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Lecturer(s)
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Zajícová Lenka, prof. Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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1) Discursive analysis as a method of qualitative analysis of social phenomena; the role of language in creating and maintaining social inequalities. Explanation of the concepts of discourse, text, qualitative and quantitative analysis in the social sciences, identity. 2) Migration after World War II and its causes; specificity of Spanish-speaking areas. Relative economic decline of the West since the 1970s and its impact on the status and economic opportunities of immigrants and the majority society, the impact of globalization in Latin America. 3) Integration strategies, the crisis of national identities in the West and its impact on the relations between the majority society and immigrants. 4) Problems of discursive analysis: setting research goals, creating a corpus of texts for analysis, limitations of discursive analysis, researcher's bias. 5) Selection of lexical units and its impact on the formation of the image of an immigrant. 6) Metaphor and its influence on the formation of the image of an immigrant, defining the phenomenon from the point of view of cognitive linguistics. 7) Modality and its types. Practical application of the acquired knowledge in the analysis of a specific media text about immigration. 8) Intertextuality and interdiscursivity. Practical demonstration of an analysis based on these concepts. 9) Presupposition, implication and other types of implicit meanings in the text. Practical demonstration of their use in the discursive analysis of media texts discussing migration. Bibliography: Mandatory: Dijk, van T. Discuro y poder. Barcelona, 2010. Barša, P. Orientálcova vzpoura. Praha, 2011. Wodak, R. - Meyer, M. C., eds. Métodos de Análisis Crítico del Discurso. Barcelona: Gedisa, 2003. Recommended: Barša, P. - Baršová, A. Přistěhovalectví a liberální stát. Imigrační a integrační politiky v USA, západní Evropě a Česku. Brno, 2005. Fairclough, N. Analysing Discourse. Textual analysis for social research. London - New York: Routledge, 2003. Leeuwen, T. van. "The representation of social actors.". In: Caldas-Coulthard, C. R. - Coulthard, M., eds.: Texts and Practices. Readings in Critical Discour, 1995. Portolés, J. Pragmática para hispanistas. Madrid: Síntesis, 2004.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Lecture, Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook)
- Attendace
- 26 hours per semester
- Preparation for the Exam
- 54 hours per semester
- Semestral Work
- 80 hours per semester
- Homework for Teaching
- 20 hours per semester
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Learning outcomes
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The course aims to introduce students to the possibility of using discourse analysis and some originally linguistic and literary concepts such as text, lexical unit selection, modality, metaphor, intertextuality and interdiscursivity to analyze society and politics. The student will also become familiar with the relevant social theory. During the course, emphasis will be placed on understanding the role of language in creating and maintaining social inequalities, identities and power relations. Language is understood here not as a system, but as a certain type of social action (practice). On a concrete level, the student will become familiar with the issue of international migration in the Spanish-speaking environment and with the ways in which the self-concept and image of immigrant communities in Western societies are formed using Internet media. We understand the formation of the image of immigrants based on the black-and-white logic of impermeable categories "us-them" in the media as a significant source of social inequality and as one of the obstacles to the social inclusion of immigrants. The seminar will introduce students to the development and context of migration after World War II, with an emphasis on globalization, the crisis of national identities and its influence on the relations of the majority society towards immigrants and on the issue of integration.
The student will acquire comprehensive competencies in the field of qualitative text analysis, critical thinking about social phenomena, and understanding the mechanisms of creating the media image of migration.
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Prerequisites
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None.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Mark, Written exam, Student performance, Systematic Observation of Student, Seminar Work
Final written exam, written essay (5 pages) in the area of Critical Discourse Analysis, participation in classes, reading of specialized literature worth approximately 200 pages in Spanish
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Recommended literature
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