Discourse Analysis and Social Power

📋 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