科目コード	科 目 名	指定	期 間	単位	年次	担 当 者
41402	コミュニケーション分析	選択	秋学期	２	２	Paul D. Mason

【授業概要】

Students are provided with a number of ways of analysing and understanding messages. Each approach works from a different perspective: style, symbols, structure and rhetoric. While studying the approaches, students learn to apply them to practical examples. Finally, students choose a text of their own to analyse in a final project.

【学修目標】

１．To give students a set of basic tools for analysing the methods and meanings of the forms of public discourse they encounter in their daily lives.

２．To enable students to use simplified forms of communication theory, semiotics, and discourse analysis to gain more control over their language environment.

【授業計画】

１．Introduction to the course; basic concepts

２．Communication, ambiguity

３．Critical thinking; communicative purpose

４．Style; external style

５．Style; language characteristics

６．Signifiers; how meaning is transmitted

７．Signifiers; use of symbolism

８．Structure; organisation & editing

９．Structure; story

10．Rhetoric; logos

11．Rhetoric; ethos

12．Rhetoric; pathos

13．Final project workshop

14．Final project workshop

15．Revision and review

16．定期試験（Paper test AND hand in final project）

【授業時間外の学習（準備学習等）】

Students are expected to read the print they receive in each class, and be read to ask questions about any parts that are not understood in the next class. In addition there are ten exercises to be completed for homework.

【評価方法】

Attendance and participation in the class: 10%. Homework exercises: 30%. Final test: 20%. Final project: 40%.

【テキスト】

Prints will be provided by the instructor.