MAIN TOPICS OF THIS UNIT:

1. Theoretical reflections upon the different approaches to the concept of discourse and its levels and units of analysis.
2. Main tenets, concepts and techniques of some discourse approaches: Conversation Analysis, Ethnography of Communication, Critical Discourse Analysis, Functional Theory, Mediated Discourse Analysis.

MAIN TOPICS OF THIS UNIT:

1. In-depth and detailed analysis of the elements of narrative texts from a linguistic perspective: Lavob’s model and beyond.
2. Narrative and identity: Social constructionism. The concept of ‘discursive work’ and its role in the construction of identity.
3. Heteroglossia and dialogism in narrative discourse: The Bakhtinian perspective.

MAIN TOPICS OF THIS UNIT:

1. The ideological discursive universe and its presence in different literary genres.
2. Michel Foucault and his view of the discursive construction of social and knowledge identities.
3. Pierre Bourdieu: The metaphor of symbolic capital and the concept of habitus: Applications to the literary work.

MAIN TOPICS OF THIS UNIT:

1. The Functional Perspective: In-depth study of the concept of communicative dynamism: Thematic and information structures in literary discourse.
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.
3. Analysis of the information structure (Given/New) of literary texts and its contribution to the final (co-constructed) meaning of the literary work.

1. Theories of value: From Plato’s Ethics to the modern discursive ethics of Jürgen Habermas.
2. Linguistic theories of evaluation: Martin & White’s Appraisal Theory and other functional approaches (Bednarek, Hunston & Thompson, Thompson & Alba-Juez, etc.)
3. Application of the systems and parameters of these theories to the analysis of literary texts.