Discourse Analysis and Social Power

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Course Outline

  1. Multidisciplinary discourse analysis
  2. Language, context, and social power
  3. Civilizational approaches to discourse
  4. Grammatical analysis of discourse
  5. MAGA slogan history and meanings

1. Multidisciplinary discourse analysis

Key Concepts & Definitions

  • Multidisciplinary approach : Multidisciplinary approach : studying the same expression or corpus using multiple complementary research perspectives.
  • Language in use : Language in use : focusing on how speech, sentences, or texts function in real communication rather than only on abstract rules.

Essential Points

  • A multidisciplinary approach can apply different methods to the same expression, sentence, speech, or corpus.
  • Discourse analysis starts from actual language use to explain how meanings are produced in practice.

Memory Hook

Think MULTI = multiple lenses on the same message.

2. Language, context, and social power

Key Concepts & Definitions

  • Importance of context : Importance of context : treating discourse meaning as inseparable from its social, political, and economic setting(s).
  • Social power : Social power : how identities, power relations, ideologies, and cultural norms are shaped by discourse and also shape discourse.

Essential Points

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1. What does a multidisciplinary approach do when analyzing a discourse object such as a sentence, speech, or corpus?

2. What is meant by language in use in discourse analysis?

3. Why is context considered essential for discourse meaning?

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Multidisciplinary discourse analysis — purpose?

Uses multiple methods to study the same discourse.

Language in use — meaning?

Focuses on how language functions in real communication.

Context importance — reason?

Meaning depends on social, political, economic settings.

Language and social power — relationship?

Language shapes and reflects social identities and power.

Civilizational approaches — key concept?

Legitimation, themes, representations, and ideological adaptations.

Discourse structuring — focus?

How ideas justify or support social structures.

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