CCAS 259

Critical Discourse Analytic Methods

Chicana/o and Central American Studies · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)

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Limited to departmental graduate students. Two critical discourse analytic (CDA) methods taught to document language of public figures. Student teams employ one method (conceptual metaphor CDA or discourse historical approach) to analyze actual public official’s own discourse surrounding one controversial issue. Empirical study of discourses that are based on independently developed research enterprises can be valuable tool for variety of graduate student research.

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