[ecrea] Discourse theory and analysis (intensive one-week course - prof. Veronique mottier)

DISCOURSE THEORY AND ANALYSIS:

INTENSIVE ONE-WEEK COURSE (22-26 August 2016)

Swiss Summer School in Social Science Methods 2016
Location: LUGANO (on the Swiss-Italian border)

Instructor: Prof. Véronique Mottier

Véronique Mottier is Professor in Sociology at the University of 
Lausanne, and Director of Studies and Fellow in Social and Political 
Sciences at Jesus College, Cambridge. She holds a Ph.D in sociology from 
the University of Cambridge, and BA and MA degrees in sociology and 
political science from the University of Geneva. She has taught 
discourse analysis, social theory, and qualitative methodology at many 
institutions, including the Essex Summer School in Social Science Data 
Analysis and Collection, the European University Institute in Florence, 
GIGA/Hamburg, and the Universities of Geneva and Cambridge. Her research 
interests include interpretative methodologies; Foucauldian discourse & 
narrative analysis; politics of sexuality and gender; modernity, 'race', 
and identity politics. She has published widely in these areas, and is 
currently writing a book on the history of French social theory for 
Harvard University Press. For full list of publications and webpage, see:
veroniquemottier.com; 
http://www.sociology.cam.ac.uk/people/academic-staff/vmottier

The teaching assistant for this course is Dr. James Clackson, who is 
Reader in Comparative Philology at the University of Cambridge and an 
expert in socio-linguistics and the linguistic analysis of texts.

WORKSHOP CONTENTS AND OBJECTIVES:

The aim of this workshop is to explore the practical application of 
discourse theory to the analysis of textual data. There are many 
different versions of discourse analysis; this course focuses 
specifically on types of discourse analysis which are part of the wider 
family of interpretative methodologies, and which emphasise the links 
between language and power. Interpretative methodologies are grounded in 
a social constructionist perspective on social life, reminding social 
scientists of the constructed nature of the social 'facts' that are 
studied. Against this backdrop, discourse analysis helps researchers to 
explore topics such as: the constructions of meanings and identities 
through which individuals, groups, or organisations make sense of their 
everyday lives and interactions, and reproduce or challenge their 
social, organisational and political environments; the meanings and 
identities produced within policy frames, political activism, bodily 
practices, interactions with healt
  h or welfare professionals, or legal processes; the mechanisms of 
social exclusion or inclusion within media debates or internet blogs; 
the discursive reproduction or transformation of social norms around 
gender, sexuality, disability, migration, racialized identities, ‘old 
age’ or ‘youth’, etc.
More precisely, the workshop will (1) examine key interpretative 
methodologies such as interactionnism, ethnomethodology and 
hermeneutics, and examine how these perspectives translate into concrete 
research questions and frameworks for ‘doing’ discourse analysis and (2) 
explore the application of practical techniques of discourse analysis, 
focusing especially on textual materials (which can include media or 
internet materials, archival texts, personal diaries, policy and legal 
texts, organisational and management documents, activist discourses, 
scientific discourses, or interview transcripts).
Although the lectures, exercises and readings will also address wider 
methodological issues such as researcher reflexivity and validity 
concerns, the main emphasis of the workshop is on practical applications 
of discourse theory and analysis through daily exercises in class. 
Participants are welcome to bring their own data to the Summer School if 
they wish to do so, and will have a chance to discuss and work on their 
own data or their research project more generally in individual 
tutorials during the week. The working language of this workshop is 
English (but if your own data are in French, German, Dutch, Portuguese, 
Spanish or English I can read these directly in the original so do bring 
some).
PRACTICAL INFO AND SIGNING-UP:
http://www.unige.ch/ses/sococ/ss/


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