Discourse Analysis Course

This subject describes the wide variety of spoken and written texts, and also the mixture of spoken and written that can be found in the communication practices. It is expected that as soon as they are accepted in the desired job, they can directly tune in a new workplace situation. The language phenomena that are discussed in the text are related to contexts of situation and context of culture, how texts are produced as a social practice, what texts tell us about happenings, what people think, believe and how texts represent ideology (power struggle etc.). In addition, this subject introduces norms of language use, social contexts and conventions to explore English spoken and written text in various workplace discourses. Moreover, this subject is influenced by other disciplines that make this subject examine spoken and written texts from all kinds of different areas (medical, legal, advertising, export-import, tourism, journalism, and many more) and from all kinds of perspectives ( race, gender, power). The teaching-learning activities are conducted through presentation, discussion, question-answer, and assignment, which deal with a number of practical applications.