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160139 PS Additional course in this subject area (2016S)

Protest!

6.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 16 - Musikwissenschaft und Sprachwissenschaft
Continuous assessment of course work
Moodle

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Details

max. 40 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Tuesday 01.03. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 8 Sensengasse 3a 5.OG
  • Tuesday 08.03. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 8 Sensengasse 3a 5.OG
  • Tuesday 15.03. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 8 Sensengasse 3a 5.OG
  • Tuesday 05.04. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 8 Sensengasse 3a 5.OG
  • Tuesday 12.04. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 8 Sensengasse 3a 5.OG
  • Tuesday 19.04. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 8 Sensengasse 3a 5.OG
  • Tuesday 26.04. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 8 Sensengasse 3a 5.OG
  • Tuesday 03.05. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 8 Sensengasse 3a 5.OG
  • Tuesday 10.05. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 8 Sensengasse 3a 5.OG
  • Tuesday 24.05. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 8 Sensengasse 3a 5.OG
  • Tuesday 31.05. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 8 Sensengasse 3a 5.OG
  • Tuesday 07.06. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 8 Sensengasse 3a 5.OG
  • Tuesday 14.06. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 8 Sensengasse 3a 5.OG
  • Tuesday 21.06. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 8 Sensengasse 3a 5.OG
  • Tuesday 28.06. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 8 Sensengasse 3a 5.OG

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Protests are verbal and nonverbal communicative acts which are performed in public place and in which individuals or groups articulate a socio-political issue which contrasts with the (perceived) hegemonic opinion. They point to a (perceived) social evil and thereby emphasize that this evil is not to be accepted. At the same time, however, protests are “acts of identity” with which actors position themselves in the social field and align with or against other social actors. Protests are usually highly ritualized, semiotically dense (multimodal) and increasingly mediatized and medially orchestrated. All this makes protest a highly interesting topic of sociolinguistics. Despite this, however, a (socio)linguistic “protest research” has only emerged recently. Not least in the light of of recent protest movements from the Arab Spring to Occupy Wallstreet and Pegida, this research strand has proliferated.
In this course, we deal with this new research field. We discuss, on the one hand, how protest and protest movements can be conceptualized (by means of social theory, media theory and theory of communication); on the other hand, we explore empirically recent protest discourses and their linguistic/semiotic forms. Which discourses we will look at is subject of a joint decision.

Assessment and permitted materials

Attendance, active participation in discussions, short presentations and moderation of a discussion, paper.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Knowledge of central theories and methods of linguistic protest research, skills in the analysis of (mutlimodal) political discourse in the media.

Examination topics

Oral presentation, joint reading and discussion of theoretical texts, joint analyses.

Reading list

Teaser: Luisa Martín Rojo (2014): Occupy. The spatial dynamics of discourse in global protest movements. In: Journal of Language and Politics 13:4, 583--598.
Further reading will be announced in the course.

Association in the course directory

MA2-M1

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