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| IDE5900 | Media Studies: Language, Text and Context | 3+0+0 | ECTS:7.5 | | Year / Semester | Spring Semester | | Level of Course | Second Cycle | | Status | Elective | | Department | DEPARTMENT of WESTERN LANGUAGES and LITERATURE | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 3 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | -- | | Co-Lecturer | Asst.Prof.Dr. Mustafa Zeki ÇIRAKLI | | Language of instruction | | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | This course encourages the understanding and critical evaluation of written media texts in terms of the centrality of media in politics, economics, social life, and global and local culture and issues; and the contemporary and historical impact of media on individuals and societies with a focus on linguistic, semantic, discursive and pragmatic characteristics of the language they use. |
| Programme Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | 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 | | |
| Like any other subject studied at advanced level, Media Studies also has its own language through which theories, ideas and methods are exspressed. This course deals with the analysis of language used in written medai texts,and with why and how media texts are analysed with a focus on image analysis, verbal language, semiotics and codes. |
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | Glossary of Terms: Codes and Conventions in Media Studies | | | Week 2 | Media and discourse analysis: What is media discourse?, How to study print media?, How to study spoken media?, New frameworks, (participation framework in printed and spoken media texts) | | | Week 3 | Media and Language: Agenda Setting Theory: Assumptions, Statements, Levels, and Criticism | | | Week 4 | Approaches to Media Discourse 1: Linguistic and sociolinguistic Analysis, Conversation Analysis, Semiotic Analysis | | | Week 5 | Approaches to Media Discourse 2: Critical linguistic and semiotics, the social-cognitive model (Van Dijk), Cultural-generic analysis, Desiderata for a critical analysis of media discourse | | | Week 6 | Critical analysis of media discourse: Theory of discourse , Analysis of communicative events, Analysis of the order of discourse | | | Week 7 | Intertextuality and the News: Discourse types, Discourse representation in media texts, Analysis of discourses in texts | | | Week 8 | Mid exam | | | Week 9 | Political discourse in the media: creating a new political discourse, the field of politics (Bourdieu), the order of mediatized political discourse and further considerations | | | Week 10 | Critical Media Literacy | | | Week 11 | Media content analysis | | | Week 12 | Power of language in media texts | | | Week 13 | Identity and social relations in media texts
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