par Mistiaen, Valériane Marie
Référence Research day WORDS THAT MATTER: CRITICAL REFLECTIONS ON CATEGORISATION FROM MIGRATION AND DIVERSITY RESEARCH (2024-10-18: Ghent university)
Publication Non publié, 2024-10-18
Communication à un colloque
Résumé : Language and discourse are fundamental objects for understanding human societiesbut as reality is not transparent, language is not neutral! This workshop will thereforeapproach the main principles of Discourse Analysis with the aim for the participantsto acquire a discursive sensitivity to help them to deconstruct naive conceptions oflanguage. After a theoretical part on Discourse Analysis, participants will beintroduced to lexicometric analysis and an overview of the possibilities offered by thesoftware TXM (and/or Hyperbase) will be presented. Participants are encouraged tocome with a corpus of texts if they want to work on their research topics.