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Media Language
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:11.00
Study Course Accepted:19.08.2024 10:05:05
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | KSK_162 | LQF level: | Level 6 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Communication Sciences | Target Audience: | Communication Science | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Dite Liepa | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf rsu[pnkts]lv | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 6 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 12 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 6 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 12 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 24 | ||||||||
| Part-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 5 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 10 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 3 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 6 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 16 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Centralised examination in Latvian passed when graduating from the secondary school. | ||||||||
| Objective: | To characterise the language of Latvian media by providing an impartial analysis of the linguistic changes taking place from the sociolinguistic point of view. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Introduction to the course. An overview of the history of the language of modern Latvian media: linguistic changes during the years of the restoration of independence. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | A general overview of media language: borrowings, euphemisms, dysphemisms, slang (including vulgarisms), fixed associations (precedent texts), Germanisms, barbarisms, neologisms, types of wordplay etc. The impact of political, economic and social processes on media language.Linguistic research: general linguistics, lexicology, morphology, phonetics, syntax, phraseology, stylistics, onomastics; text analysis. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | The characterisation of the Latvian language in the context of the languages of the world. The linguistic situation in Latvia. Latvian language as a topic in mass media. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Codified/uncodified norms. Literary Latvian or the literary standard of Latvian and trends of language democratisation and globalisation. Latvian orthography: a historical overview of the language standardisation practices in the 20th and the 21st century. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | Understanding of media language: language standardisation, errors or diversity of expression. Practical advice on how to enrich one’s linguistic expression and eliminate language deficiencies: analysis of the most common grammar, syntax and stylistic errors. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | Proper nouns. Orthography (capitalisation). Abbreviations and initialisms. Rendering of proper names (general overview). | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | Practical analysis of the first written assignment (comments, explanations, discussion). | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 8 | Practical analysis of the second written assignment (comments, explanations, discussion). | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 9 | Practical analysis of the third submitted article (comments, explanations, discussion). In the second half of the lesson – practical exercise in rendering proper nouns in Latvian. Normative regulation and language practice. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 10 | Practical analysis of texts (edition, program, website: comments, explanations, discussion). Practical exercise: rendering of proper nouns in Latvian (part 2 – continuation of seminar 3) | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 11 | Practical analysis of texts (edition, program, website: comments, explanations, discussion). The most common mistakes in the use of punctuation marks. Slide show, discussion; after the discussion the practical work. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 12 | Individual presentations: a practical radio report. Listening, questions, discussion on the presented material, as well as the material covered during the workshops over the whole term. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Topic Layout (Part-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Introduction to the course. An overview of the history of the language of modern Latvian media: linguistic changes during the years of the restoration of independence. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | A general overview of media language: borrowings, euphemisms, dysphemisms, slang (including vulgarisms), fixed associations (precedent texts), Germanisms, barbarisms, neologisms, types of wordplay etc. The impact of political, economic and social processes on media language.Linguistic research: general linguistics, lexicology, morphology, phonetics, syntax, phraseology, stylistics, onomastics; text analysis. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | The characterisation of the Latvian language in the context of the languages of the world. The linguistic situation in Latvia. Latvian language as a topic in mass media. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Codified/uncodified norms. Literary Latvian or the literary standard of Latvian and trends of language democratisation and globalisation. Latvian orthography: a historical overview of the language standardisation practices in the 20th and the 21st century. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | Understanding of media language: language standardisation, errors or diversity of expression. Practical advice on how to enrich one’s linguistic expression and eliminate language deficiencies: analysis of the most common grammar, syntax and stylistic errors. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | Practical analysis of the first written assignment (comments, explanations, discussion). | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 8 | Practical analysis of the second written assignment (comments, explanations, discussion). | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 12 | Individual presentations: a practical radio report. Listening, questions, discussion on the presented material, as well as the material covered during the workshops over the whole term. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Use of knowledge obtained at lectures and seminars in practical language use, by creating stories and writing own publications. In order to evaluate the quality of the study course as a whole, the student must fill out the study course evaluation questionnaire on the Student Portal. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | The final mark depends on the written assignments submitted during the course, practical tasks and the exam. For the day department: 3 written assignments (30%) and the radio report (10%); practical tasks or test (10%); 50% in total; the exam (50%) = 100% in total. For the correspondence department: 2 written assignments (30%) and the radio report (10%); practical assignments or test (10%); 50% in total; the exam 50% = 100% in total. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | • to characterise modern media development processes and their driving forces; • to analyse the link of language to ideological and political processes; • to understand peculiarities and styles of the publicist style on the basis of the Latvian media language; • to find one’s way around situational and social rules of language use. | ||||||||
| Skills: | • to use Latvian in accordance with media formats; • to understand the deepest regularities in language use in media and in the public environment; • to evaluate and analyse media language quality; • to use language corresponding to specific media genres in own creative work; • to use different layers of language in creating different content. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | • to evaluate real media language using information for the creation of own professional texts; • sense of responsibility for the written text (word), its suitability and compliance, as well as possible reaction to it; • critical and self-critical attitude to the media language used in practice, its manifestations (styles and their suitability in a situational context); • responsible, knowledge-based language use in accordance with media format. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Baltiņš, M.; Druviete, I. Ceļavējš cilvēku ciltij. Valoda sabiedrībā. Rīga : Latviešu valodas aģentūra, 2017 | ||||||||
| 2 | Normatīvo aktu projektu izstrādes rokasgrāmata. Rīga : Valsts kanceleja 2016 (pieejama elektroniski) | ||||||||
| 3 | Tiesību aktu tulkošanas rokasgrāmata. Rīga: VVC 2021 ( pieejama elektroniski) | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Latviešu lingvistiskā attieksme: vērtības, pārliecība, prakse. Rīga, LU Akadēmiskais apgāds, 2021. | ||||||||
| 2 | Džozefs, Dž. Ē. Valoda un politika. Rīga : Zinātne 2008. | ||||||||
| 3 | Valodas prakse: vērojumi un ieteikumi. Rīga: Latviešu valodas aģentūra (iznāk katru gadu kopš 2005.gada) | ||||||||
| 4 | Vārds un tā pētīšanas aspekti. LiepU zinātnisko rakstu krājums (katru gadu kopš 1996.) | ||||||||
| 5 | Valoda dažādu kultūru kontekstā. DU zinātnisko rakstu krājums (katru gadu kopš 2000.) | ||||||||
| 6 | Vēstuļu rakstīšanas vadlīnijas. Valsts kanceleja; 2017. (pieejams elektroniski) | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | letonika (http://www.letonika.lv/) personvarduatveide.lvhttps://www.valodaskonsultacijas.lv/ | ||||||||
| 2 | Valsts valodas centra tīmekļvietne (vvc.gov.lv) Latviešu valodas aģentūras tīmekļvietne (valoda.lv), Latvijas Nacionālais terminoloģijas portāls (termini.gov.lv), elektroniskā vārdnīca tezaurs.lv | ||||||||
| 3 | svešvārdu vārdnīcas, Latviešu valodas pareizrakstības un pareizrunas vārdnīca, Valsts valodas centra Latviešu valodas ekspertu komisijas pieņemtie lēmumi | ||||||||
