| Code: ETI409 |
Course Title: DISCOURSE ANALYSIS AND TRANSLATION |
Theoretical+Practice: 2+0 |
ECTS: 4 |
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| Year/Semester of Study |
4 / Fall Semester |
| Level of Course |
1st Cycle Degree Programme |
| Type of Course |
Optional |
| Department |
TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETING (ENGLISH) |
| Pre-requisities and Co-requisites |
None |
| Mode of Delivery |
Face to Face |
| Teaching Period |
14 Weeks |
| Name of Lecturer |
SAMET TAŞÇI (samettasci@nevsehir.edu.tr) |
| Name of Lecturer(s) |
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| Language of Instruction |
English |
| Work Placement(s) |
None |
| Objectives of the Course |
| This course introduces students to the approaches to discourse (conversation analysis, variation analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, speech act theory, pragmatics) and to stylistic analysis (the domain of style, levels and aspects of style, how linguistic choices affect mind style, and the rhetoric of text and discourse). |
| Learning Outcomes |
PO |
MME |
| The students who succeeded in this course: |
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| LO-1 |
can explain “discourse” as well as related terms like “text”, “speech”, “utterance”, etc. |
PO-4 To be able to think analiytically
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Examination
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| LO-2 |
can analyze approaches and methods of discourse analysis. |
PO-2 To be able to have basic and specialized knowledge about the language and history of the cultures taught
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Examination
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| LO-3 |
can critically and independently apply their understanding of discourse and discourse analytical methods in relation to contemporary issues in translation studies. |
PO-15 To be able to have knowledge of the terminology of various fields (Science, Social and Health Sciences etc.) and being able to use second foreign language and English both as a source and a target language
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Examination
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PO: Programme Outcomes
MME:Method of measurement & Evaluation |
| Course Contents |
| This course deals with studying discourse analysis based primarily on linguistic theory. It also covers analyzing texts to describe topic and to investigate word order variation and information structure.
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| Weekly Course Content |
| Week |
Subject |
Learning Activities and Teaching Methods |
| 1 |
Introduction: What is discourse analysis Uses of discourse analysis ‘Descriptive’ and ‘Critical’ goals |
Question-Answer, Lecture, Presentation |
| 2 |
Linguistic categories, minds, and worldviews Discourse, culture and ideology |
Question-Answer, Lecture, Presentation |
| 3 |
Discourse and ideology |
Question-Answer, Lecture, Presentation |
| 4 |
Context, text and consequence: Problems in studying the contents |
Question-Answer, Lecture, Presentation |
| 5 |
Analyzing texts: some concepts and tools of linguistic analysis. |
Question-Answer, Lecture, Presentation |
| 6 |
Text analysis issues: Meaning relations between sentences and clauses Semantic relations Grammatical relations |
Question-Answer, Lecture, Presentation |
| 7 |
Types of Exchange Speech functions Grammtical functions |
Question-Answer, Lecture, Presentation |
| 8 |
mid-term exam |
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| 9 |
Representations od social events Clause elements: processes, participants, circumstances. Grammatical metaphor |
Question-Answer, Lecture, Presentation |
| 10 |
Modality |
Question-Answer, Lecture, Presentation |
| 11 |
Style |
Question-Answer, Lecture, Presentation |
| 12 |
Appraisal: Negotiating attitudes |
Question-Answer, Lecture, Presentation |
| 13 |
Ideation |
Question-Answer, Lecture, Presentation |
| 14 |
Conjunction |
Question-Answer, Lecture, Presentation |
| 15 |
Social and discursive practices |
Question-Answer, Lecture, Presentation |
| 16 |
final exam |
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| Recommend Course Book / Supplementary Book/Reading |
| 1 |
J.R. Martin and David Rose, “Working with Discourse”, (London: Continuum, 2007). ISBN-10: 0826488501 |
| 2 |
Norman Fairclough, “Analyzing Discourse”, (London and New York: Routledge, 2003). ISBN-10: 0415258936. |
| Required Course instruments and materials |
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