Discourse Analysis

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• social roles, deixis and power in discourse
• the nature of coherence and interpretability
• the importance of context to meaning and the nature of the context of situation
• the nature of language use in social interaction

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• describe how information is structured in normal discourse
• describe how culture and context form understanding of language in use
• apply theoretical models to language in use.

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• plan and organise your own learning schedule
• analyse the discourse organisation of texts

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.