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Poslední úprava: doc. Mgr. Martin Hájek, Ph.D. (17.02.2013)

One of the important features of contemporary society is that it produces a large amount of self-descriptions; by the words of Niklas Luhmann, the modern society is an intensively self-observing and self-reporting system. The aim of this course is to provide students with knowledge of relatively broad issues of methods of analysis of these self-descriptions, which are mainly texts in their nature (media texts, biographic narratives, conversations, open-ended questions in questionnaires, expert discourse texts etc.). The successful student will become fluent in the vocabulary of narrative, discursive, content, and computer-assisted text analyses and bring those tools to bear on various kinds of texts.

Poslední úprava: doc. Mgr. Martin Hájek, Ph.D. (14.02.2018)

Course requirements and assignments.

Class attendance and seminar participation are mandatory. One absence is allowed.

Assignment guidelines:
1. Seven pieces of homework. (42 points)
2. Term paper: A paper based on student's research. Each student should carry out a textual analysis on the topic of his/her choice. Extending a selected piece of homework is recommended but not necessary. Using own data is welcome. Paper due: 31/5/2018. (30 points)
3. Oral examination - general knowledge of the text, narrative and discourse analyses presented in the course including recommended readings. Two questions followed by a discussion of the term paper. (28 points).

Evaluation:
91 - 100 points: excellent (A)
81 - 90 points: very good (B)
71 - 80 points: good (C)
61 - 70 points: satisfactory (D)
51 - 60 points: sufficient (E)
less than 50 points: failed (F)

Poslední úprava: doc. Mgr. Martin Hájek, Ph.D. (03.12.2019)

Please, visit the course page on Moodle: https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=5941

Course Calendar

Week 1 (21.2.): Introductory class presentation;

Week 2 (28.7.): A text - key concepts presentation; homework 1

Week 3 (7.3.): Levels of text analysis 1 - operative and cooperative reading presentation; homework 2

Week 4 (14.3.): Levels of text analysis 2 - word, sentence and supra-sentence level presentation; homework 3

Week 5 (21.3.): Narrative analysis 1 - introduction presentation; homework 4

Week 6 (28.3.): Narrative analysis 2 - structural and hermeneutic approaches presentation; homework 5

Week 7 (4.4.): Narrative analysis 3 - interactional and network approaches presentation;

Week 8 (11.4.): Discourse analysis 2 - CDA approach presentation; homework 6

Week 9 (18.4.): Dean's Holiday

Week 10 (25.4.): Discourse analysis 1 - Foucauldian approach presentation

Week 11 (2.5.): Discourse analysis 3 - analysis of conversations (P. Grice) presentation; homework 7

Week 12 (9.5.): Discourse analysis 4 - performativity of discourse presentation

Week 13 (16.5.): Content analysis - the problem of coding