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2004/05 Taught Postgraduate Module Catalogue

ENGL5656M Critical Language Study

30 creditsClass Size: 999

Module manager: Michael Pearce
Email: m.pearce@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) View Timetable

Year running 2004/05

Pre-requisite qualifications

Entry onto the MA

This module is approved as an Elective

Objectives

On completion of this module, students should be able to ...
display a solid understanding of the work of theorists in two of the most influenctial linguistic 'movements' in the last 25 years: critical linguistics and critical discourse analysis;

develop a critical approach to their reading of these seminar works;

employ a sophisticated modes of discourse analysis, derived from their studies, to a range of texts.

Skills outcomes
Masters (Taught), Postgraduate Diploma & Postgraduate Certificate students will have had the opportunity to acquire the following abilities as defined in the modules specified for the programme:
" the skills necessary to undertake a higher research degree and/or for employment in a higher capacity;
" evaluating their own achievement and that of others;
" self direction and effective decision making;
" independent learning and the ability to work in a way which ensures continuing professional development;
" to engage critically in the development of professional/disciplinary boundaries and norms.



Masters (Taught), Postgraduate Diploma & Postgraduate Certificate students will have had the opportunity to acquire the following abilities as defined in the modules specified for the programme:
" the skills necessary to undertake a higher research degree and/or for employment in a higher capacity;
" evaluating their own achievement and that of others;
" self direction and effective decision making;
" independent learning and the ability to work in a way which ensures continuing professional development;
" to engage critically in the development of professional/disciplinary boundaries and norms.

Syllabus

The module will explore a range of approaches to the study of language which can broadly be described as 'critical'. In particular, it will focus on two 'movements': Critical Linguistics (CL), which emerged in the late 1970s, mainly in the UK and Australia; and Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), its intellectual successor. In seminars and in their reading, students will be introduced to the central concerns of researchers working in the field, such as the dialectal relationship between language and the social; the construction and maintenance of power relations through language; the role played by language in structuring human experience and world-view; language and social change (neo-liberalism, globalisation, marketisation, informalisation). The module also allows students to develop their own analytical skills, by applying critical methodologies to texts they encounter in their daily lives.

Teaching methods

10 x 2 hours seminars

Private study

Reading and preparing for seminars (70%): writing assignment (30%)

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Student progress will be monitored through seminar presentations

Methods of assessment

1 x 4000 word essay

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 11/04/2003

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