Professor John O'Regan | Three three-hour sessions | Summer: 14:00 - 17:00 (UK time) Wednedays 4, 11, 18 June (639 in the IOE)

NB: This course accrues 3 training points.

This is a short course in critical discourse analysis (CDA) for researchers interested in the concept of discourse and how this may be relevant to their research. We will examine how concepts such as discourse, semiosis and ideology are understood in applied linguistic and poststructuralist approaches to knowledge and meaning, and how discourse as principally associated with Michel Foucault has been recontextualized to critical realist text-analytical models of CDA. Key concepts such as subject position, ontology, epistemology, ideology, discourse and power, as well as the relations between them, are explored. The first session will deal with the theoretical underpinnings of CDA, and the second and third sessions will be devoted to elucidating these dimensions further through sample analyses using the tools and procedures of CDA.