TEORÍA DEL DISCURSO. APLICACIONES LINGÜÍSTICAS Y LITERARIAS

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CONTENIDOS DE LA ASIGNATURA

UNIT 1: General view of some of the main approaches to Discourse Analysis

1.1. Theoretical reflections upon the different approaches to the concept of discourse and its levels and units of analysis.

1.2. Main tenets, concepts and techniques of some discourse approaches: Conversation Analysis, Ethnography of Communication, Critical Discourse Analysis, Functional Theory, Mediated Discourse Analysis.

UNIT 2: Narrative Analysis and identity construction

2.1. In-depth and detailed analysis of the elements of narrative texts from a linguistic perspective: Lavob’s model and beyond.

2.2. Narrative and identity: Social constructionism. The concept of ‘discursive work’ and its role in the construction of identity.

2.3. Heteroglossia and dialogism in narrative discourse: The Baktinian perspective.

UNIT 3: Post-structural and Social Theories. The emergence of new social discourses through the ‘glocalization’ of the literary work.

3.1. The ideological discursive universe and its presence in different literary genres.

3.2. Michel Foucault and his view of the discursive construction of social and knowledge identities.

3.3. Pierre Bourdieu: The metaphor of symbolic capital and the concept of habitus: Applications to the literary work.

UNIT 4:  Information and thematic structures in literary texts: The Functional Perspective

4.1. The Functional Perspective: In-depth study of the concept of communicative dynamism: Thematic and information structures in literary discourse.

4.2. Linguistic analysis of the thematic structure (Theme/Rheme) of literary texts and its contribution to the final (co-constructed) meaning of the literary work.

4.3. Analysis of the information structure (Given/New) of literary texts and its contribution to the final (co-constructed) meaning of the literary work.

 UNIT 5: Theories of linguistic evaluation: Functions of the evaluative/emotive interplay in the literary work.

5.1 Theories of value: From Plato’s Ethics to the modern discursive ethics of Jürgen Habermas.

5.2. Linguistic theories of evaluation: Martin & White’s Appraisal Theory and other functional approaches (Bednarek, Hunston & Thompson, Thompson & Alba-Juez, etc.)

5.3. Application of the systems and parameters of these theories to the analysis of literary texts.