Transdisciplinary perspectives 1.S2.MLA.20

Course objective
- to acquaint the students with core theories in linguistics, providing them with access to multiple tools for their MA thesis research
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Course content
corpus linguistics, Critical Discourse Analysis, pragmatics, cognitive linguistics. Several workshops will be conduted to implement these tools in practice.
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Methods of instruction/ forms of classroom activity:
multimedia presentation, extensive reading, analysis and discussion of representative examples, writing, ICT tools/MSTeams

Field of study

Master of Liberal Arts

Student workload

ECTS points in relation to student’s duties: total number of ECTS = 5 1 ects = 30h in class 0,5 ects = 15 h for consultations 3,5 ects = 100 h for preparation for class (reading, workshop assignments)

Study level

MA level studies

Education profile

full time studies academic profile

Type of course

obligatory courses

The semester in which the subject is carried out

semester 3

Mode

(in Polish) Realizowany w sali

Course coordinators

Term 2023/24-Z:

Małgorzata Adams-Tukiendorf

Term 2022/23-Z:

Jędrzej Olejniczak

Learning outcomes

Learning outcomes acc to PRK 2019

Knowledge:
Students know and understand
1. scientific facts pertaining to the complexity of phenomena related to language in (mediated) communication (k_W01/P7S_WG)
2. specialist terminology and advanced reasoning and presentation techniques characteristic of academic exposition in the selected discipline (k_W09/P7S_WG)

Skills
Students can
3. recognise and replicate typical genres, styles and rhetorical conventions characteristic of (academic) communication (k_U01/P7S_UW)
4. conduct a debate according to a particular rhetorical format, respond in writing to offer alternative viewpoint or reasoned critique (k_U12/P7S_UK)
5. use English at least at the level of C1 of the Common European Framework for Languages and in the scope of specialist terminology in the humanities and social sciences (k_U13/P7S_UK)

Assessment criteria

Forms of evaluation of learning outcomes

1. Active participation in classes - 45% of the final grade (outcome 1,2,3,4,5)
2. Essay - 55% of the final grade (outcome 1,2,3,4,5)

Grading criteria:
60 -67% 3.0
68 - 75% 3.5
76 - 83% 4.0
84 - 91% 4.5
92 - 100% 5.0

Bibliography

Reading list
Brezina, V. (2018). Statistics in corpus linguistics: A practical guide. Cambridge University Press.
Grundy, P. (2019). Doing pragmatics. Routledge.
Han, C. (2015). How to do critical discourse analysis: A multimodal introduction.
Toomey, A. H., Markusson, N., Adams, E., & Brockett, B. (2015). Inter-and trans-disciplinary research: A critical perspective. GSDR 2015 Brief.

Additional information

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