COURSE UNIT TITLE

Offered By

Women's and Family Studies

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR GÜLSÜM SONGÜL ERCAN

Offered to

Women's and Family Studies

Course Objective

The aim of this course is to enable students to discuss how the media constructs, reproduces and/or reconstructs gender norms and gender ideology through its discourse using relevant theories and methods with a critical approach analyzing gender-related media texts and to have them identify explicit or implicit ideological implications of gender in these texts and thus gain awareness on the media's manipulating effect.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Recomended or Required Reading

Can, Ö. ve Ercan, G. S. (2020). Discursive Functions of Reported Speech In Turkish Op-Ed Articles. Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi, 31(2), 265-288.
Eggins, S. ve Iedema, R. (1997). Difference without diversity: semantic orientation and ideology in competing women s magazines.(içinde) R. Wodak (haz.) Gender and discourse, ss.165-196. London: Sage.
Ekici, C. ve Ercan, G. S. (2019). Gazete Köşe Yazıları Söyleminde Süreç Seçimi: Toplumsal Cinsiyet ve Politik Ideoloji Etkisi. Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi, 30(1), 123-144.
Ercan, G. S. ve DANIŞ, P. (2019). Söylem, Söylem Çözümlemesi ve Eleştirel Söylem Çözümlemesi: Tanımları ve Kapsamları. Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, 6(2), 527-552.
Ercan, G. S. (2018). Dizgeci Işlevsel Dilbilgisi. (içinde) Can, Ö. (haz.) Dilbilim Kuramları: Iki Düzlem Beş Kuram. Istanbul: Ithaki, ss. 154-212.
Ercan, G. S. ve Dizdarcı, E. (2016). Medyada Yargı: Gazete Köşe Yazıları Örneği. UHUVE Uluslararası Hakemli Iletişim ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi. Sayı 12, ss. 99-119
Ercan, S. Yağcıoğlu, S. (2007). Gazete köşe yazılarında kaçınma kullanımı ve cinsiyet ilişkisi. Dilbilim Araştırmaları, s. 1-16.
Fairclough, N. (1995). Media Discourse. New York: Arnold.
Greenberg, J. (2000). Opinion discourse and Canadian newspapers: The case of the Chinese boat people . Canadian journal of communication, 25(4), 517-537.
Işık, M. (2004). Medyada Yeni Yaklaşımlar. Konya: Eğitim Kitabevi
Jeffries, L. (2007). Textual construction of the female body: A critical discourse approach. Springer.
Marco, M. J. L. (1997). Linguistic choices for the representation of women in discourse. Bells: Barcelona English language and literature studies, 247-259.
Mills, S. (2008). Language and sexism. Cambridge University Press.
Şendur, G. ve Atabek, Ümit. (2007). Medya metinlerini çözümlemek: içerik, göstergebilim ve söylem çözümleme yöntemleri. Ankara: Siyasal
Kalemus Brighton, P. ve Foy, D. (2007). News Values. London: Sage
Litosseliti, L. (2002). Head to Head : gendered repertoires in newspaper arguments. Gender identity and discourse analysis, 129-148.
Van Dijk, T. A. (1988). News as discourse. University of Groningen.
Van Dijk, T. A. (1995). The mass media today: discourses of domination or diversity . Javnost-The Public, 2(2), 27-45.
Van Dijk, T. A. (1995, December). Opinions and ideologies in editorials. In 4th International Symposium of Critical Discourse Analysis, Language, Social Life and Critical Thought, Athens (pp. 14-16).
Van Dijk, T. A. (2006). Discourse and manipulation. Discourse ve society, 17(3), 359-383.
van Dijk, T. A. (2008). Discourse and context: A sociocognitive approach (p. 117). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Van Dijk, T. A. (2009). News, discourse, and ideology. In The handbook of journalism studies (pp. 211-224). Routledge.
van Dijk, T. A. (2021). Antiracist Discourse: Theory and History of a Macromovement. Cambridge University Press.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1. Lecture and discussion
2. Question and answer
3. Weekly readings
4. Assignments
5. Presentations

Assessment Methods

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

LA 1-6 will be assessed by midterm exam, final exam, presentations and assignments.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

1. Students are obligated to participate 70% of the lectures
2. All kinds of plagiarism and attempts of plagiarism will be graded by 0 zero.
3. Students are supposed to read the materials before the lecture and participate the classroom discussions.
4. Students are expected to make presentations about the topics given by the lecturer.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

songul.ercan@deu.edu.tr
DEU Edebiyat Fak. Dilbilim Böl. C Blok
Ofis No:153
Tel.: 0232 3018632

Office Hours

Tuesday and Wednesday
12:00-13:00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes