Course Details in 2018/19 Session

Module Title	LM Linguistic Ethnography
School	COS - College Hub
Department	COS - College Hub
Module Code	08 22016
Module Lead	Professor Marilyn Martin-Jones, Dr Nick Peim
Level	Masters Level
Credits	10
Semester	Semester 2
Pre-requisites
Co-requisites
Restrictions	MA/MSc Social Science Research Methods
Exclusions
Description	The last three decades have seen the development of a significant body of interdisciplinary research on language and literacy within particular social and institutional contexts (e.g. in anthropology, education, sociolinguistics, sociology and discursive psychology). One broad line of enquiry has been directed towards everyday talk and the construction of social meanings in face-to-face interaction. Different approaches to the observation and analysis of talk have been developed, in different disciplinary sites, with distinct goals and methods (e.g. ethnography of communication, conversation analysis and interactional sociolinguistics). Research has been conducted in different institutional worlds - in education, the media, law, medicine - and in local lifeworlds. A second broad line of enquiry - the New Literacy Studies (NLS) - has been directed towards literacy and towards textual practices. Reading, writing and everyday uses of texts (including on-line texts) are seen as profoundly cultural practices which are embedded in particular social and institutional contexts. The empirical work developed within this tradition has drawn attention to the intensely textually-mediated nature of contemporary social life and to the textual links between local practices and an increasingly globalised communication order.
Learning Outcomes	By the end of the module the student should be able to: Critically evaluate different approaches to the study of spoken language Critically evaluate different approaches to the study of literacy Assess the appropriacy of particular approaches to the design of their own research (or similar projects) Demonstrate an understanding of how approaches might be combined Apply a particular approach to the analysis of their own data (or other datasets)
Assessment	22016-01 : 3000 word assignment : Coursework (100%)
Assessment Methods & Exceptions	1 x 3000 word assignment on one of the following topics: Provide a critical evaluation of one approach to spoken language Provide a critical review of approaches to literacy research developed within the New Literacy Studies tradition Outline a rationale for incorporationg one of the approaches covered in the course into the designe of a particular project (this could be the student's own research project or a similar project) Present an analysis of a particular set of data (spoken or written, monolingual or bilingual), using one of the approaches covered in the course
Other	None
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