3 ECTS credits
90 h study time
Offer 1 with catalog number 4018441FNR for all students in the 1st semester at a (F) Master - specialised level.
In the first part, insights from conversation analysis will be used to investigate the structure of journalistic interviews.
The second part will provide an overview of the different techniques provided by linguistic discourse analysis for the analysis of journalistic texts. We then consider concepts such as felicitous interaction, footing, hedging and implicature. Hallidayan transitivity analysis, naming analysis, the analysis of deixis and the use of pronouns are also tested for their value in discourse analysis. Argumentation, evidentiality and the use of metaphor are introduced.
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Students will learn to apply concepts from linguistics to journalistic texts and to use the methods of linguistic discourse analysis.
The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Written Exam determines 100% of the final mark.
Within the Written Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
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This offer is part of the following study plans:
Master of Journalism: Radio- and TV-Journalism (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Journalism: Printed and Online Media (only offered in Dutch)