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LNGS2627: Analysing (Social) Media Discourse
2022 unit information
You won't believe what happens next (and it's not what you think). This unit examines linguistic approaches to media discourse. The language of news texts and social media will form a special focus of the unit. We will explore general aspects of media institutions, the ways in which social identities are constructed in the media, differences between the language of various types of media texts, and relationships between words and images.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Linguistics
| Code | LNGS2627 |
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| Academic unit | Linguistics |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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24 credit points |
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Corequisites:
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None |
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None |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Explain the communicative context of news products and social media
- LO2. Analyse images applying frameworks for representational, interpersonal and presentational meanings
- LO3. Explain the concept of news values and how they can be construed
- LO4. analyse the linguistic organisation of news and social media
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