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 175-008 Language and media

Availability

2nd and 3rd year

Credit Points

12.5

Coordinator

Mr Paul Gruba

Prerequisites

None

Semester

1 (view timetable)

Contact

A 1.5-hour seminar and a 1-hour laboratory class per week

Subject Description

Working within a mediated environment, this subject examines issues regarding the role of language in the media and linguistic viewpoints on media texts. Topics include: the relationship between media, language, text and message; doing media research; non-verbal communication; structure of the media text types; approaches to media text analysis; genre analysis and the media; media representations; using corpora; hypertext issues; developing websites; media literacy. Students are given training in using multimedia tools and current technologies and practice in presenting their research through different media.

Assessment

Participation in a collaborative project equivalent to 1000 words, and an individual class presentation of 2000 words, and participation in group development of a web site and 1000 word report.

Prescribed Texts

Materials prepared by the department.



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