英語中級（クラス指定セメスター型）

ディスコースについての短い入門書（Discourse the basics, Angela Goddard and Neil Carey）の数章を読み、ディスコースについて学び、自分でもディスコースを分析する。これを通じ、英文の読解力だけでなく、自分の周囲にあるディスコースを批判的に検討する力を養う。
参考のため、教科書の冒頭部分を紹介する。
The term ‘discourse’ comes from Latin ‘discursus’, meaning ‘to run to and fro’. In all the varied uses of the term, both in everyday contexts and in more specialist academic fields, there is a commonly shared concept of discourses as expressions of ideas that are put out into the world and that ‘run to and fro’ in one form or other.
Sometimes the term ‘discourse’ can suggest a specific form – that of speech. In the field of Linguistics, ‘discourse analysis’ has historically focused on stretches of spoken language, while ‘text’ has tended to refer to written material. While this is no longer necessarily the case, you need to be aware that if you are looking at older books and articles within the language studies area, the focus of the writers might well be on these different modes.
In contemporary books about language use, you will see both ‘text’ and ‘discourse’ used to refer to both speech and writing or, indeed, to multimodal communication, where there are hybrid forms such as SMS or social media posts that share qualities of both modes. Although the two terms can therefore be used interchangeably to describe any mode of language use, they can express difference in terms of the scale of communication and the breadth of perspective involved, with ‘text’ suggesting more of a micro-focus and ‘discourse’ a wider scope.
これだけでは何のことかわからないと思うが、ディスコースの定義も授業で学ぶ内容に含まれるため、ここでは説明しない。関心があれば各自で簡単に調べたうえで受講を検討してほしい。