Corpus and Discourse (950Q3B)

30 credits, Level 7 (Masters)

Spring teaching

This module introduces you to the resources of corpus linguistics. We show how these methodologies may be used to investigate a range of discourse-related topics.

You’ll explore topics such as:

• asking how corpus-assisted discourse analysis can be used in preparing to teach ESP (English for Specific Purposes)
• how we can analyse politeness in a corpus study
• the potential of corpus linguistics to contribute to our analysis of discourse, stylistics and pragmatics.

Contact hours and workload

This module is approximately 300 hours of work. This breaks down into about 36 hours of contact time and about 264 hours of independent study. The University may make minor variations to the contact hours for operational reasons, including timetabling requirements.

We regularly review our modules to incorporate student feedback, staff expertise, as well as the latest research and teaching methodology. We’re planning to run these modules in the academic year 2024/25. However, there may be changes to these modules in response to feedback, staff availability, student demand or updates to our curriculum.

We’ll make sure to let you know of any material changes to modules at the earliest opportunity.