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LNGS7274: Media Discourse
2023 unit information
Sexy, healthy and 100% Australian-owned This unit examines linguistic approaches to media discourse. The language of news texts and television series will form a special focus of the unit, along with how images are used to construe meaning. We will explore general aspects of media institutions (news and television), the ways in which social identities are constructed in the media, differences between the language of various types of media texts, the rhetoric of persuasion and the discourses of popular culture.
Unit details and rules
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Arts and Social Sciences
| Study level | Postgraduate |
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| Academic unit | Linguistics |
| Credit points | 6 |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. understand the communicative context of news and television
- LO2. summarise the key points of an academic reading
- LO3. analyse images applying frameworks for representational, interpersonal and presentational meanings
- LO4. explain the concept of news values and how they can be constructed in texts and images
- LO5. recognise a wide variety of news genres
- LO6. engage with and critically apply understandings of media communication to real world contexts
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