CDM 6315

 The aim of this course is the introduction to journalistic discourses and their analysis. Throughout the course students will be presented the theoretical framework of the scientific field of discourse analysis and learn how to discern the different genres of journalistic discourse, the distinct communication objectives and their linguistic features. Through comparative textual analysis the explicit but also the implicit uttering of ideology in journalistic texts is revealed. This theoretical understanding is applied to the production of different texts for different communication contexts. 

Upon successful completion of the course students will be able to : 

• know the theoretical background of the scientific field of discourse analysis 
• identify the journalistic genre and its sub-genres 
• discern the communication purposes for every journalistic discourse through the analysis of its linguistic features.  
• critically evaluate the agenda of each medium 
• understand the relation between the linguistic and non linguistic scientific fields  
• apply theoretical approaches to the analysis of empirical data 
• analyze verbal and written communication,  
• effectively produce journalistic discourses on different communication contexts.