ENGL 5970 - Discourse Analysis

Meets with LING 5077. Introduction to the study of how language is used in daily public life, including a range of genres from advertisements to political editorials to online discussions. Sample topics: Iraq War propaganda, speech acts (esp. apologies and insinuations), media discourse, critical rhetoric, American myths and cultural models, censorship/textual silences, immigration discourse, and how to publish a dissenting point of view. Close reading skills acquired in other English courses will be valuable in this one as well. Writing-intensive.