ASSIGNMENT 2
DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
Assignment Length Value Notified Due date
Discourse
Analysis
2000 words
50%
AIM: to demonstrate your understanding of Discourse Analysis and apply it
meaningfully to texts from pre-selected media sources.
?TOPIC: Off shore asylum seeker detention centres
Using the Discourse Analysis approach as outlined in MSTU2002,
compare andcontrast the media representations of your chosen subject. You may use 10 texts
from any of the following media sources:
• ??The Guardian
• ??Twitter
• ??Courier Mail
• ??Brisbane Times
• ??ABC.net
Be clear in your own mind that you are analysing media representations and
not conducting an analysis of actual individuals or their actions or words.
This is a micro-analysis of the language and should not, therefore, focus
predominantly on the visual components of your texts.
You must contextualise your Discourse Analysis. Consider the impact of the
medium of the texts and consider the socio-historical context in which the topic or
event is situated. As this is a research assignment, you will be expected to
read much more widely than the pieces provided. Therefore, even though you
are analyzing texts from the above sources, you will need to read and research
other peer-reviewed literature sources, media sources, blogs and vlogs to gain a
deeper sense of the topic and how the media represents it.
Use the library catalogue and databases to find extra supporting material in
books and journal articles on examples of Discourse Analysis and background
information on media, media representations of occurrences in the media. You
are expected to refer to at least eight extra references not including any set
readings for the course.
The assignment should be presented as an ESSAY, with an introduction,
analysis, discussion and conclusion (do NOT label these sections). All texts
analysed should be photocopied or downloaded and submitted in hard copy to
your tutor as appendices (This will be discussed further in lectures and tutorials).
You must include a bibliography.
Assignments should conform to MLA or APA style.
MARKING CRITERIA FOR ASSIGNMENT 3
Marked out of 25, value 50% total mark for course.
Your work will be assessed on the basis of the following criteria:
1. Your understanding of the topic or event and its interest to the media.
(5 marks)
2. Your understanding of Discourse Analysis as presented in the lectures,
the readings and the tutorials. (6 marks)
3. Your ability to use Discourse Analysis meaningfully (linking language
analysis to context, medium etc.). (5 marks)
4. Evidence of research, its appropriateness, and its incorporation
into the analysis (including media theory, media event theory, media
discourse, discourse Analysis). (5 marks)
5. Style, structure and presentation including grammar, syntax,
spelling, punctuation, logical development, MLA/APA referencing.
(4 marks)
References that I have found:
Neoliberalism and nationalism:Representations of asylumseekers in the Australian
mainstream news media
Kerstin Lueck
Wolfgang Teubert, Meaning, Discourse and Society. Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 2010. viii + 291 pp. ISBN 978-0-521-88565-2.
Reviewed by Geoff Thompson (University of Liverpool, United
Kingdom)
Felicity’s Condition
Author(s): Erving Goffman
Source: American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 89, No. 1 (Jul., 1983), pp. 1-53
Published by: The University of Chicago Press
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2779047
Accessed: 26-09-2016 03:28 UTC
Discourse Analysisas Theory and Method
Marianne Jørgensen and Louise Phillips
Manipulative silences and the politics of representation of boat children in Australian print
media
Helen J. McLaren & Tejaswini Vishwanath Patil
To cite this article: Helen J. McLaren & Tejaswini Vishwanath Patil (2016): Manipulative silencesand the politics of representation of boat children in Australian print media, Continuum, DOI:
10.1080/10304312.2016.1231796
Ideology and Translation: A Critical Discourse AnalysisApproach towards the Representation of PoliticalNews in Translation
Mahdi Aslani (Corresponding Author)
Department of English, East Azarbaijan Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz
A rhetorical approach to news discourse: Mediarepresentations of a controversial study on
‘Reparative Therapy’
MEDIA(TED) DISCOURSE AND SOCIETY
Anabela Carvalho
To cite this article: Anabela Carvalho (2008) MEDIA(TED) DISCOURSE AND SOCIETY, Journalism
Studies, 9:2, 161-177, DOI: 10.1080/14616700701848162
To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14616700701848162
Norman Fairclough –Critical analysis: the critical study of language
Muslims in social media discourse:Combining topic modeling and critical discourse analysis Anton Törnberg a,n, PetterTörnberg
