UNSW Handbook Course - Functional Discourse Analysis

Functional Discourse Analysis - LING5015


	Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
	School: Linguistics
	Course Outline: http://legacy.handbook.unsw.edu.au
	Campus: Kensington Campus
	Career: Postgraduate
	Units of Credit: 8
	EFTSL: 0.167 (more info)
	Contact Hours per Week: 2
	Fee Band: 1 (more info)
	Further Information: See Class Timetable

Description

Develops tools for analysing discourse, examining patterns in text which contribute to cohesion and coherence, develop a system of knowledge, create an identity, and achieve social purposes. Systemic-functional descriptions and critical discourse perspectives will be central. A wide variety of texts will be examined, focussing in particular on written genres, but spoken genres and multi-modal texts will also be considered.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course, students should be able to:

Identify and describe the role of discourse analysis in relation to a broader understanding of language
Explain the distinctive features of a functional model of discourse analysis
Analyse written and spoken texts in terms of specific patterns of discourse, such as cohesive patterns
Apply analysis to issues of text interpretation and text evaluation, particularly in the context of language learning and teaching
Synthesise and discuss the results of analysis.

Assessment

Assignment 1 - 15 %
Assignment 2 - 25%
Assignment 3 - 60%

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