Context is/as critique. Blommaert.

Context is/as Critique. By J. Blommaert (2001)

What is discourse? (video)

A video by J. Scott

Gunther Kress -Modes and Multimodality

 "Making meaning: the role of semiotics and education" - Gunther Kress

What is Mode?

What is Multimodality?

How do people choose between modes?

Why adopt a multimodal approach?

Reading material.

Here is a list of readings for the seminar:

1. Analysing Verbal Data: Principles, Methods and Probles (J. Lemke)

2. Theorizing context for text analysis. Fenton Smith

3. Analysing genre: functional parameters. Martin

4. Discourse analysis: What makes it critical. Gee

5. Critical Discourse Analysis: History, Agenda,Theory, and Methodology. Wodak & Meyer.

6. Aspects of Critical Discourse Analysis. Wodak.

7. Critical Discourse Analysis. Fairclough

8. The dialectics of discourse. Fairclough

9. Critical Discourse Analysis. van Dijk

10. Identity, Interaction: Contradictions and Challenges for Critical Discourse Analysis . Hodge

11. Discourse and manipulation. van Dijk

12. Discourse semantics and ideology. van Dijk

13. Discourse Analysis. Trappes Lomax

14. Analysing language and politics. Bailey

15. Reading Images: Multimodality, Representation and New Media. Kress

16. Reading for August 14th & 15th 

      a. Article 1. 

      b. Article 2.

17. Texts for evaluation. Text 1 - Text 2.

An overview of CDA

CDA at the University of Strathclyde.

Evaluation and positioning in media discourse

Evaluation in the media discussed by Peter White. ((White, P.R.R., 2006, “Evaluative semantics and ideological positioning in journalistic discourse – a new framework for analysis”, in Mediating Ideology in Text and Image: ten critical studies, Lassen, I. (ed.), John Benjamins, Amsterdam: 37 – 69)

Resources for attitudinal meaning. J. Lemke

Representing speech

An entry from the living Handbook of Narratology.