The Linguistic Turn and Beyond

This course is designed as a toolkit for training Ph.D. researchers in basic methods and concepts of cultural analysis. Several methods and approaches will be presented: discourse analysis, visual analysis, narratology, rhetorical analysis, intertextuality, psycho-analysis, and semiotics. The course will focus on the way in which cultural categories such as gender, ethnicity and sexuality structure the meaning of images and texts.
The course is open to Research Master students and Ph.D. students who work with textual analysis be it in the arts or in other disciplines. The main focus however will be the epistemological reflection concerning the semiotic principle which recognizes human signification as a layered process in which syntactical, semantical and pragmatical aspects interdepend. The presented theories and insights will be illustrated by textual and visual analysis of texts and images. In addition students will be invited to present and discuss their textual and/or visual material and analytical approaches in class.

• Dates: April/June 2010
• Location: NOV / GGeP - Utrecht University
• Credits: 7,5 ECTS (credits will only be awarded after an accepted written paper. Students not requiring any credits will receive a certificate of attendance)
• Coordination: Prof.dr. Rosemarie Buikema and guest teachers.
• Details: Also open to NOV Ph.D. candidates, as well as to candidates enrolled in other National Research Schools and Research Master students.
• Registration: March 2010 at nov@uu.nl