Course Description
This course explores some of the more recent genres of broadcast talk in close detail, focusing on cases such as the celebrity interview, the talk show, news interviewing and some kinds of reality TV show. The course explores the way language has been adapted to the requirements of new media such as the internet and the cell phone. By the end of the course students should be familiar with key concepts for understanding mediated language drawn from sociology, linguistics and critical discourse analysis including notions of register, genre, the cooperative principle, implicature, face work, politeness, participation framework and social deixis. They should be also have gained competence in collecting, transcribing where necessary, and analyzing instances of broadcast talk or mediated language using concepts acquired in the course.
Intended Learning Outcomes
CILO-1: Collect and transcribe selected samples of mediated communication.
CILO-2: Identify some of the key differences between speech and forms of mediated communication.
CILO-3: Apply key terms and distinctions relevant to the analysis of the discourse of mediated communication.
CILO-4: Interpret and discuss either in the form of an oral presentation or a written project some of the social consequences of changing technologies of communication.