SPAN 308 - Power and Ideology: (Critical) Discourse Perspectives

Prerequisite: SPAN 215 or SPAN 275.
FDR: HU Humanities Distribution
Credits: 3

This course explores different theoretical approaches to account for the relationship between language and power, and therefore the relationship between language use and social processes. In particular, it observes how meaning is constructed and reconstructed in the discourse manifested in different settings and platforms ranging from social media to institutional and official communication (political discourse, media discourse, academic discourse, etc.).