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Dersin Tanımı
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The course begins with an overview of discourse analysis and its position within applied linguistics, followed by an in-depth exploration of key concepts such as discourse, context, text, interaction, and meaning-making. Students then engage with core analytical dimensions of discourse, including cohesion and coherence, thematic progression, and pragmatic meaning, examining how these features contribute to textual organization and communicative effectiveness.
As the course progresses, particular emphasis is placed on the interplay between discourse analysis and corpus linguistics, enabling students to explore how qualitative discourse-oriented approaches can be complemented by quantitative, corpus-based methods. Students are introduced to data-driven analyses of authentic language use, fostering critical awareness of methodological choices in discourse research.
A substantial component of the course is devoted to the analysis of discourse across genres relevant to academic and educational contexts, including EMI lectures, research article highlights, transparent peer review reports, article abstracts, and disciplinary academic writing. Through these genre-based analyses, students examine how discourse conventions vary across contexts, disciplines, and communicative purposes.
The course also foregrounds metadiscourse in written and spoken texts, highlighting how writers and speakers organize discourse, engage audiences, and construct stance—particularly with reference to pedagogical applications in English language teaching. Throughout the course, students are encouraged to critically reflect on how discourse-analytic insights can inform materials development, classroom interaction, academic literacy instruction, and teacher education.
By the end of the course, students will have developed the ability to analyze authentic discourse data, evaluate discourse features across genres, and articulate the relevance of discourse analysis to language teaching theory and practice.
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