ED
737-013: Discourse and Multimedia
Analysis
Course Syllabus
Instructor:
Jay Lemke
Time: 1:00 - 4:00 pm
Day: Wednesday
Location: Multimedia
classroom - SEB 2229
(1) There is a Dollar Bill's Coursepak
for this course, available at Ulrich's Bookstore.
(2) There are also two required books, which will be used in the second
half of the course and should be at Ulrich's a few weeks after the start of the
term:
Kress, G. & van Leeuwen, T. 1996. Reading images. London: Routledge.
Cotton, Bob & Richard Oliver. 1997. Understanding hypermedia 2.000. London: Phaidon.
(3) Readings which are not in the coursepak or these books will be available online or made available later in the term. Some of the multimedia material contains images and video; please "read" these as carefully as you would read purely textual material in the course. See Online Readings and Media on CD. "Recommended" readings for a topic are optional; they will not be discussed in class but are very useful if you want to pursue the topic further.
(4) Some topics in the course will occupy for one week; others will take two weeks. We will adjust the schedule during the course, depending on how much time we need with each topic. For the first class, please try to read at least the selections from Lemke 1990 available in Online Readings.
(5) Written work in the course will consist of either two shorter papers, one applying techniques of discourse analysis to a text of your choice and the other applying visual analysis techniques to the same or different material, or one longer paper combining discourse and visual analysis on the same material. I will consult with students individually about the most useful methods in relation to your research interests and media materials.
Lemke, J.L. 1990. Talking Science: Language, Learning, and Values. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing. [Introduction and Chap 1; see Online Readings]
Wortham,
Stanton. 2003. Linguistic
Anthropology of Education: An Introduction. In S. Wortham and B. Rymes, Eds. Linguistic Anthropology of Education. London & Westport, CT:
Praeger/Greenwood. Pp. 1 -30.
Recommended:
Hornberger,
Nancy. 2003. Linguistic
Anthropology of Education in Context. In S. Wortham and B. Rymes, Eds. Linguistic
Anthropology of Education. London & Westport, CT: Praeger/Greenwood. Pp.
245 – 270.
Lemke,
J.L. 1998. "Analysing Verbal Data: Principles, Methods, and
Problems" in K. Tobin & B. Fraser, (Eds). International
Handbook of Science Education. London: Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp.
1175-1189.
Halliday, M. A. K. & Hasan, R. 1989. Language,
Context, and Text. London: Oxford University Press. [ Chaps 1,2, 3: pp 3-39;
chap 5, pp 70-96; in coursepak ]
Ravelli, L.J.
(1999). Getting started with
functional analysis of texts. In L.
Unsworth (Ed). Researching
Language in schools and communities (pp. 27-64).
London: Cassell
Lemke,
J.L. 1990. Talking
Science: Language, Learning, and Values. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.
[Chaps 2 and 4; Appendices; in coursepak]
Ochs,
Elinor. (1979). Transcription as theory. In E. Ochs & Schieffelin, B.
(Eds.), Developmental Pragmatics (pp. 43-72). New York: Academic Press.
Recommended:
Sacks,
Harvey, Emanuel A. Schegloff, and Gail Jefferson. 1974. A Simplest Systematics
for the Organization of Turn-Taking in Conversation. Language 50:696-735.
Lemke,
J.L. "Resources for Attitudinal Meaning: Evaluative Orientations in Text
Semantics." Functions of Language 5(1): 33-56, 1998.
Kress, G. & van Leeuwen, T. 1996. Reading images. London: Routledge. Selected chapters.
Recommended:
Barthes, Roland. 1977. Image-Music-Text. New York:
Hill & Wang.
Barthes, Roland. 1981. Camera lucida. New York: Hill
& Wang.
Lemke, J.L. (in preparation).“Visual and verbal resources
for evaluative meaning in political cartooons.” http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jaylemke/papers/polcart.htm
Lemke,
J.L. "Multiplying Meaning: Visual and Verbal Semiotics in Scientific
Text" in J.R. Martin & R. Veel, Eds., Reading Science. London: Routledge. (pp.87-113). 1998.
Goodwin,
Charles. (In press). Pointing as situated practice. To appear in Sotaro Kita, Ed., Pointing: Where Language,
Culture and Cognition Meet. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Goodwin, Charles. 2000. Action and embodiment within
situated human interaction. Journal of Pragmatics 32: 1489 – 1522.
Thibault, P.J. 2000. The multimodal transcription of a
television advertisement. In A. Baldry, Ed., Multimodality and Multimediality
in the distance learning age. Campobasso,
Italy: Palladino.
Lemke, J.L.
“Multimedia genres for science
education and scientific literacy.” In M. Schleppegrell & M.C. Colombi,
Eds. Developing
Advanced Literacy in First and Second Languages. Mahwah,
NJ: Erlbaum. pp. 21-44. 2002.
Lemke, J.L.
“Travels in Hypermodality.” Visual
Communication 1(3): 299-325. 2002.
Cotton, Bob & Richard Oliver. 1997. Understanding hypermedia 2.000. London: Phaidon. [Selected chapters]
Recommended:
van Leeuwen, T. 1999. Speech,
Music, Sound. London: Macmillan [New York: St. Martin's Press].
Lemke, J. L. (1998). Multimedia
demands of the scientific curriculum". Linguistics and Education 10 (3):
247-272.
Lemke, J.L. "Typological and Topological Meaning in Diagnostic Discourse." Discourse Processes 27(2), 173-185. 1999. [See course CD-ROM]
Recommended:
Lemke, J.L. "Metamedia Literacy: Transforming Meanings And Media"
In D. Reinking, L. Labbo, M. McKenna, & R. Kiefer (Eds.), Handbook
of Literacy and Technology: Transformations in a Post-Typographic World.
Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. pp.283-301. 1998.