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| TDE5952 | Discourse Theory and Applications | 3+0+0 | ECTS:7.5 | | Year / Semester | Fall Semester | | Level of Course | Second Cycle | | Status | Elective | | Department | DEPARTMENT of TURKISH LANGUAGE and LITERATURE | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 3 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | Doç. Dr. Pelin SEÇKİN | | Co-Lecturer | Associate Prof. Muzaffer UZUN | | Language of instruction | Turkish | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | The aim of the course is to provide students with the knowledge and skills to reveal the syntactic, semantic and socio-cultural structure of written texts through discourse analysis methods. |
| Programme Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | PO - 1 : | Can learn concepts and theories related to discourse analysis | 1,5,7,8 | 1,3, | | PO - 2 : | Can understand the relationship between discourse and context in texts | 1,5,7,8 | 1,3, | | PO - 3 : | Can analyze close- and large-scale structures of texts | 1,5,7,8 | 1,3, | | PO - 4 : | Can gain critical thinking and interpretation skills | 1,5,7,8 | 1,3, | | CTPO : Contribution to programme outcomes, TOA :Type of assessment (1: written exam, 2: Oral exam, 3: Homework assignment, 4: Laboratory exercise/exam, 5: Seminar / presentation, 6: Term paper), PO : Learning Outcome | | |
| Concepts of context, cohesion and consistency and methods of discourse analysis; Discussing the concepts of culture, ideology and identity that are effective in the construction of language and revealing the social dimensions and sub-meanings of texts; Determination of genre-specific features by examining the linguistic structure of discourse. |
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | Relationship between text and language | | | Week 2 | Discourse and context relationship | | | Week 3 | Textuality criteria | | | Week 4 | Discourse and text type classifications | | | Week 5 | The relationship between discourse and pragmatics | | | Week 6 | Speech-Act Theory | | | Week 7 | Concepts related to discourse analysis | | | Week 8 | Discourse analysis theories | | | Week 9 | Midterm | | | Week 10 | Analysis examples | | | Week 11 | Critical discourse analysis theory | | | Week 12 | Analysis examples | | | Week 13 | Presentation and evaluation of assignments | | | Week 14 | Political discourse and case studies | | | Week 15 | Final Exam | | | Week 16 | | | | |
| 1 | Günay, Doğan (2013), Söylem Çözümlemesi, İstanbul: Papatya Yayıncılık | | | 2 | Van Dijk, Teun (2003) ?Söylem ve İdeoloji: Çok Alanlı Bir Yaklaşım?, Söylem ve İdeoloji (Çev. Nurcan Ateş), İstanbul: Su Yayınları.
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| 1 | Zeyrek, Deniz (2009), ?Söylem ve Toplum?, Ahmet Kocaman (Ed.), Söylem Üzerine, (27-47), Ankara: Odtü Yayınları. Ankara | | | 2 | Büyükkantarcıoğlu, N. (2006b). Toplumsal Gerçeklik ve Dil, Ankara: Multilingual Yayınları. | | | 3 | Doğan, Aymil (2022), Sözlü ve Yazılı Çeviri Odaklı Söylem Çözümlemesi, Ankara: Siyasal Kitabevi. | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | | | | | | | |
| Student Work Load and its Distribution | | Type of work | Duration (hours pw) | No of weeks / Number of activity | Hours in total per term | | Yüz yüze eğitim | 3 | 14 | 42 | | Sınıf dışı çalışma | 8 | 14 | 112 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 9 | 1 | 9 | | Arasınav | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Kısa sınav | 8 | 3 | 24 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 10 | 1 | 10 | | Dönem sonu sınavı | 2 | 1 | 2 | | Total work load | | | 200 |
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