HU Credits: 3

Degree/Cycle: 2nd degree (Master)

Responsible Department: Communication & Journalism

Semester: 2nd Semester

Teaching Languages: Hebrew

Campus: Mt. Scopus

Course/Module Coordinator: Michal Hamo

Coordinator Email: hamo.michal@gmail.com

Coordinator Office Hours: Spring semester, Mondays, by appointment

Teaching Staff:
Dr. Michal Hamo

Course/Module description:
The course presents and demonstrates the analytic frameworks, research practices and methodological considerations of varied approaches to the study of text and discourse.

Course/Module aims:
To provide advanced students with a methodological and methodic toolkit for textual analysis, by presenting and demonstrating key disciplines and analytic frameworks within discourse studies, and discussing basic methodological issues and concepts in textual-interpretative analysis.

Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
1. Examine various linguistic, textual and discursive phenomena in texts
2. Interpret the socio-cultural functions, meanings and presuppositions of mediated and public texts in their contexts
3. Integrate various traditions of discourse analysis to form a multi-dimensional analysis
4. Compare qualitative research paradigms and disciplines of textual analysis for their basic tenets and suitability to various research questions
5. Evaluate the research quality of studies based on textual analysis
6. Criticize research design and methodological frameworks in textual and interpretative research
7. Design a specific research plan based on the analysis of cultural, mediated or public texts.

Attendance requirements(%):
80%

Teaching arrangement and method of instruction: frontal teaching, joint analysis and discussion in lectures and tutorials

Course/Module Content:
* Subject to change

1. Discourse: Introduction to the course and basic principles of discourse analysis
2. Interpretation: Paradigms of social research; Mixed methods in textual analysis
3. Positioning: Participation framework, role and stance in discourse and in media discourse
4. Meaning: Context, coherence and implicitness; Genre and intertextuality
5. Narrative: The defining characteristics of narrative; Approaches to the study of narrative in general and in the media; Experiential interviews in mass media and 'small stories' in social media
6. Interaction: Introduction to Conversation Analysis; Sequence, preference and turn-taking; Natural and institutional discourse; mediated talk analysis; Transcription and representation
7. Multimodality: Affordances and materiality; Analyzing online interaction
8. Identity and style: Indexing and constructing identity and social relationships through language; Culturally specific ways of speaking and communicative ethos
9. Ideology: Textual manifestations of ideology; Intentionality, trust, doubt and ethics in textual analysis
10. Corpora: Considerations and dilemmas in selecting materials for analysis; Corpus-based analysis of meta-communicative keywords
11. Quality: Managing tensions and promoting quality in textual analysis

Required Reading:
* Subject to change

Blum-Kulka, S., & Hamo, M. (2011). Discourse pragmatics. In: T. van Dijk (Ed.), Discourse studies: A multidisciplinary introduction (2nd ed.) (pp. 143-164). London: Sage.
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Chilton, P., & Schäffner, C. (2002).Introduction: Themes and principles in the analysis of political discourse. In: P. Chilton & C. Schäffner (Eds.), Politics as text and talk: Analytic approaches to political discourse (pp. 1-41). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Dayter, D. (2015). Small stories and extended narratives on Twitter. Discourse, Context & Media, 10, 19-26.‏
Denzin, N.K., & Lincoln, Y.S. (2000). Introduction: The discipline and practice of qualitative research. In: N.K. Denzin & Y.S. Lincoln (Eds.), Handbook of qualitative research (2nd ed) (pp. 1-28). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Goffman, E. (1981). Footing. In: Forms of talk (pp. 124-159). Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Goodwin, C. (1994). Professional vision. American Anthropologist, 96, 606-633.
Greifat, Y., & Katriel, T. (1989). Life demands musayara: Communication and culture in contemporary Israel. International and Intercultural Communication Annual, 13, 121-138.
Hamo, M., Blum-Kulka, S., & Hacohen, G. (2004). From observation to transcription and back: Theory, practice and interpretation in the analysis of children’s naturally occurring discourse. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 37, 71-92.
Hutchby, I., & Wooffitt, R. (1998). Conversation analysis. Cambridge: Polity Press. Ch. 1 & 2, pp. 13-69.
Jaworski, A., & Coupland, N. (1999). Introduction: Perspectives on discourse analysis. In: A. Jaworski & N. Coupland (Eds.), The discourse reader (pp. 1-44). London: Sage.
Johnstone, B. (2008). Discourse analysis (2nd ed.). Malden, MA: Blackwell. Ch. 4.
Meredith, J. (2017). Analysing technological affordances of online interactions using conversation analysis. Journal of Pragmatics, 115, 42-55.
Mittell, J. (2001). A cultural approach to television genre theory. Cinema Journal, 40(3), 3-24.
Montgomery, M. (2010). Rituals of personal experience in television news interviews. Discourse & Communication, 4, 185-211.
Roeh, I. (1989). Journalism as Storytelling, Coverage as Narrative. American Behavioral Scientist, 33, 162-168.
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Schreiber, M., & Kampf, Z. (2021). Intention work: The scope of journalistic interpretation of political speech acts. Journalism, 22(3), 616-633.
Stake, R.E. (2000). Case studies. In: N.K. Denzin & Y.S. Lincoln (Eds.), Handbook of qualitative research (2nd ed) (pp. 435-454). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Tenenboim-Weinblatt, K. (2013). The Management of Visibility: Media Coverage of Kidnapping and Captivity Cases around the World. Media, Culture & Society, 35, 791-808.
Tolson, A. (2006). Media talk: Spoken discourse on TV and radio. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Ch. 1, pp. 3-23.

Additional Reading Material:
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Blondheim, M. & Blum-Kulka (2001). Literacy, orality, television: Mediation and authenticity in Jewish conversational arguing, 1-2000 C.E. The Communication Review, 4, 511-540.
Blum-Kulka, S. (1997). Telling, tales, and tellers in family narrative events. In: Dinner talk: Cultural patterns of sociability and socialization in family discourse (pp. 100-140). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Blum-Kulka, S. (2001). The many faces of “With Meni”: The history and stories of one Israeli talk show. In: A. Tolson (Ed.), Television talk shows: Discourse, performance, spectacle (pp. 89-116). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Blum-Kulka, S. (2005). Rethinking genre: Communicative genres as social interactive phenomenon. In: B. Sanders & K. Fitch (Eds.), Handbook of language and social interaction (pp.275-231). New York: Lawrence Erlbaum.
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Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 0 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 0 %
Project work 55 %
Assignments 45 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 0 %

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