552.321 (16W) Issues in Second Language Acquisition: The manufacture of consent: A critical analysis of media discourse
Overview
- Lecturer
- Course title german Issues in Second Language Acquisition: The manufacture of consent: A critical analysis of media discourse
- Type Seminar (continuous assessment course )
- Hours per Week 2.0
- ECTS credits 6.0
- Registrations 24 (25 max.)
- Organisational unit
- Language of instruction Englisch
- Course begins on 01.10.2016
- eLearning Go to Moodle course
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Course content
The task of news media is generally perceived to be – within the constraints of a news medium’s political inclinations - the reporting of facts in order to enable their audiences to form an opinion regarding important events in the world. However, similar to other forms of communication, media are a product of the journalists’ subjective assessments of what is important, just as journalism is influenced by the subjectivity of their news sources. Accordingly, the news will tend to foreground specific happenings as well as certain aspects thereof, while backgrounding or ignoring others. Hence, media engage in what is called “agenda-setting”, meaning that they show us what is important, while at the same time telling us how to think about these issues by a process called “framing”. For example, in making the topic of refugees salient, the media set an agenda by highlighting this topic, and then they might go on to frame the topic by discussing the issue in terms of national security rather than, e.g. from a humanitarian perspective. The analysis of frames in media discourse is an important field within critical text analysis and is based on a strong theoretical foundation, the goal of which is not only to search news texts for structural hints of frames, but also for linguistic hints such as metaphors, lexical choices or catchphrases, all of which taken together evoke – explicitly or implicitly – a certain frame. Frame analysis also aims to identify so-called reasoning devices, which attempt to prescribe a certain line of arguments or causal relations in events. In this course, we are interested in the analysis of media discourse applying tools from frame analysis and thematic analysis and in doing so will attempt to put the discourse on a variety of topics into a broader social, cultural and political context. Our goal is to learn to identify frames in news texts and in particular to focus on what is obscured by favoring one particular frame over others.Examination information
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Grading scheme
Grade / Grade grading schemePosition in the curriculum
- Teacher training programme English (Secondary School Teacher Accreditation)
(SKZ: 344, Version: 04W.7)
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Stage two
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Subject: Applied Linguistics
(Compulsory subject)
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Second Language Acquisition and Language Instruction Project (
2.0h SE / 5.0 ECTS)
- 552.321 Issues in Second Language Acquisition: The manufacture of consent: A critical analysis of media discourse (2.0h SE / 5.0 ECTS)
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Second Language Acquisition and Language Instruction Project (
2.0h SE / 5.0 ECTS)
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Subject: Applied Linguistics
(Compulsory subject)
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Stage two
- Bachelor's degree programme English and American Studies
(SKZ: 612, Version: 15W.3)
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Subject: Linguistisch ausgerichtetes Wahlfach
(Compulsory elective)
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8.1 Issues in Second Language Acquisition (
0.0h SE / 6.0 ECTS)
- 552.321 Issues in Second Language Acquisition: The manufacture of consent: A critical analysis of media discourse (2.0h SE / 6.0 ECTS) Absolvierung im 4., 5. Semester empfohlen
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8.1 Issues in Second Language Acquisition (
0.0h SE / 6.0 ECTS)
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Subject: Linguistisch ausgerichtetes Wahlfach
(Compulsory elective)
- Bachelor's degree programme English and American Studies
(SKZ: 612, Version: 15W.3)
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Subject: Freie Kombination
(Compulsory elective)
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10.1 Freie Kombination (
0.0h SE / 12.0 ECTS)
- 552.321 Issues in Second Language Acquisition: The manufacture of consent: A critical analysis of media discourse (2.0h SE / 6.0 ECTS) Absolvierung im 5., 6. Semester empfohlen
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10.1 Freie Kombination (
0.0h SE / 12.0 ECTS)
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Subject: Freie Kombination
(Compulsory elective)
Equivalent courses for counting the examination attempts
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Wintersemester 2022/23
- 552.320 SE Issues in Second Language Acquisition: Media, Propaganda and the Manufacture of Consent: A linguistic analysis of crisis reporting (2.0h / 6.0ECTS)