Competencies and objectives

 

Course context for academic year 2023-24

Course designed to provide an exhaustive study of pragmatics and its application to digital discourses, which are ubiquitous today, both on web pages and in mobile applications. After several sessions aimed at mastering the pragmatic perspective of human communication, the course will address essential areas of the study of digital discourses, such as social networking sites, messaging apps, and memes, all complemented with specific studies on the humor in these discourses. The role of interfaces (their "usability") in the eventual communicative activity that takes place within those pages or apps will also be addressed

 

 

Course competencies (verified by ANECA in official undergraduate and Master’s degrees) for academic year 2023-24

General Competences

  • CG1 : Acquire advanced knowledge in highly specialized scientific and technological research contexts to achieve a detailed and well-founded understanding of theoretical, practical and methodological aspects in one or more fields of study.
  • CG2 : Apply and integrate the knowledge acquired, its understanding, its scientific foundation, as well as related problem solving, to different social spheres and highly specialized multidisciplinary contexts, both of a research and professional nature.
  • CG3 : Evaluate and select the appropriate scientific theory and the precise methodology of their fields of study to formulate judgments based on incomplete or limited information, including, when necessary and pertinent, a reflection on the social or ethical responsibility linked to the proposed solution.
  • CG4 : Being able to predict and control the evolution of complex situations through the development of innovative work methodologies adapted to the specific scientific/research, technological or professional field, generally multidisciplinary, in which the activity is taking place.
  • CG5 : Knowing how to transmit clearly and unambiguously to an audience, specialized or not, the results from scientific and technological research or from the field of the most advanced innovation, as well as the most relevant foundations on which they are based.
  • CG6 : Develop sufficient autonomy to participate in research projects and scientific or technological collaborations in their thematic field, in interdisciplinary contexts and also when a high component of knowledge transfer is involved.
  • CG7 : Being able to take responsibility for their own professional development and specialization in one or more fields of study.

 

Specific Competences

  • CE1 : Recognize, distinguish and contrast the main theories and methodologies for basic research in literary, linguistic and cultural studies in the field of English Studies.
  • CE2 : Recognize, distinguish and contrast the main critical movements in literary, linguistic and cultural studies in the field of English Studies.
  • CE7 : Acquire increasing autonomy in the learning process that facilitates the search for resources and information to perform research tasks in the field of English Studies.
  • CE8 : Master and properly use the necessary tools to search for sources and references to carry out research work in the field of English Studies.
  • CE9 : Being able to argue, critically question and propose new solutions based on the analysis of the main critical studies within the field of literary, cultural and linguistic studies in the English language.

 

Basic Competences

  • CB10 : That students possess the learning skills that allow them to continue studying in a way that will be largely self-directed or autonomous.
  • CB6 : Possess and understand knowledge that provides a basis or opportunity to be original in the development and/or application of ideas, often in a research setting.
  • CB7 : That students know how to apply the knowledge acquired and their problem-solving skills in new or little-known environments within broader (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to their area of study.
  • CB8 : That students are able to integrate knowledge and face the complexity of formulating judgments based on information that, being incomplete or limited, includes reflections on the social and ethical responsibilities linked to the application of their knowledge and judgments.
  • CB9 : That students know how to communicate their conclusions and knowledge, and the ultimate reasons that support them to specialized and non-specialized audiences in a clear and unambiguous way.

 

 

 

Learning outcomes (Training objectives)

 

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
-Differentiate the different linguistic paradigms and their application to the English language.
-Identify the different theoretical postulates of pragmatics and cyberpragmatics of the English language.
-Assess the importance of context in human communication in English.
-To establish the main characteristics of digital discourses in English.
-Compare English language communication that takes place in physical environments with that which takes place online.
-Identify the contribution of different discursive modes in multimodal digital communication in English.
-Establish the guidelines for interpretation and contextualization in virtual conversations in English language.
-Analyze any type of digital discourse and interaction in English language from a pragmatic perspective.
Identify the non-propositional effects that emanate from virtual communication in English.
-Research or analyze a given digital discourse in English language using selected bibliography.

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

-Differentiate the different linguistic paradigms and their application to the English language.

-Identify the different theoretical postulates of pragmatics and cyberpragmatics of the English language.

-Assess the importance of context in human communication in English.

-To establish the main characteristics of digital discourses in English.

-Compare English language communication that takes place in physical environments with that which takes place online.

-Identify the contribution of different discursive modes in multimodal digital communication in English.

-Establish the guidelines for interpretation and contextualization in virtual conversations in English language.

-Analyze any type of digital discourse and interaction in English language from a pragmatic perspective.

Identify the non-propositional effects that emanate from virtual communication in English.

-Research or analyze a given digital discourse in English language using selected bibliography.

 

 

 

Specific objectives stated by the academic staff for academic year 2023-24

  • To acquire knowledge of the pragmatic perspective of communication
  • To master the application of pragmatics to digital discourses
  • To study the role of interface design in the effectiveness of communication carried out in digital discourses
  • To study different digital discourses, from social networks to instant messaging and memes
  • To mastery strategies to generate humor in digital discourses and their explanation from pragmatics

 

 

General

Code: 48711
Lecturer responsible:
Yus Ramos, Francisco Benigno
Credits ECTS: 4,50
Theoretical credits: 0,92
Practical credits: 0,88
Distance-base hours: 2,70

Departments involved

  • Dept: English Philology
    Area: ENGLISH STUDIES
    Theoretical credits: 0,92
    Practical credits: 0,88
    This Dept. is responsible for the course.
    This Dept. is responsible for the final mark record.

Study programmes where this course is taught