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Rhetoric (6) (Discourse Analysis)

Course Description: Care in Discourse Analysis Trends.

Credits: 2

Prerequisites: ARAB381

Objectives of the course :

Introducing students to discourse analysis approaches, and studying two of them: discourse analysis from the perspective of text linguistics, and from the perspective of pragmatics, and comparing them. .
Understanding the basic concepts of discourse analysis, and attempting to comprehend the dimensions of language. .
Enabling the student to read and analyze a literary text. .
The ability to communicate and dialogue with others, and to criticize and compare.
The student learns the curricula that assist in discourse analysis and seeks tools that explore its structures and examines the rhetoric of discourse, represented by textual cohesion and coherence, and the mechanism by which text is harmonized and consistent, in light of the various written and spoken discourse and text studies.

Course outputs :

knowledge:

To know the basic concepts in discourse analysis.
It identifies discourse analysis trends.

Cognitive skills

Students will analyze literary texts according to discourse analysis theories.
Students should design a text that includes everything studied, comparing discourse analysis from the perspective of text linguistics and the perspective of pragma-linguistics.
To develop students' cognitive thinking.

Interpersonal skills and taking responsibility:

Students can clearly express their opinions and accept the opinions of others.
Students should have the ability for constructive criticism, dialogue, and discussion with others.
Students use knowledge of discourse analysis to solve literary problems.
Students can describe interpersonal skills with others.
To invest the critical knowledge gained from the course vocabulary in forming personal relationships.
Students demonstrate the ability to improve the visual representation of speech. .

Additional information:

Required textbooks
• Course instructor's lectures
• Khittabi, Mohamed: Text Linguistics: An Introduction to Discourse Cohesion.
• Brown, G., & Yule, G. (n.d.). *Discourse Analysis*. Translated by Mohamed Lotfi Al-Zelitni & Mounir Al-Tiriki.
Wolfgang Heinemann, Dieter Viehweger: Introduction to Text Linguistics, translated by Dr. Faleh bin Shabeeb Al-Ajmi.
• Van Dijk, Teun: Text, Structures and Functions: An Introduction to Text Linguistics, translated by Dr. Mohamed Al-Omari within his book: In Literary Theory: Essays and Studies.
• Naaman Bouqra and Mohamed Chattah: Analysis of Literary and Media Discourse.
• Textual Science (Interdisciplinary Approach), Van Dijk, translated by Prof. Dr. Saeed Al-Buhairi, Dar Al-Qahirah, 2005.

Last updated: 2026-05-12