Media Narrative Studies

Recommended Prerequisites

The student must have graduate training in the generic framework of journalistic studies, focusing on issues of discursive, sociological, ethical and epistemological issues associated with the media. He/she should also have knowledge of undergraduate level in the field of communication theory and discourse analysis. The student must also be language proficient in Portuguese and knowledgeable, in terms of reading competence for training purposes, two foreign languages, one of which is English.

Teaching Methods

The teaching will be done in seminars. The student will be encouraged to make a contribution to the analysis of personal reflection and questioning of program topics included in the syllabus, following synthesis and formulation of questions by the teacher. The contribution of the student assumes planned interventions in seminar, and subsequently object discurssion supported by theoretical texts and case studies.

Learning Outcomes

After completing the course, the student should be able to discuss and develop in demonstrative terms and argumentative support, advanced level questions posed by the media narrative studies in semiodiscursive plan with a priority focus on semantic-pragmatic aspects of so-called media discourses. That ability to questioning must also consider interdisciplinary and transdiscursive plans.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

I generic terms (each school year will be subject to specification), the course will foster a wide reflection on media narratives, their narratological foundations and their diversification potential, taking into account the media environment and its most significant speeches. Being present in multiple cultural situations, the narrative will be analyzed here according to their dominant types and the semiodiscursive and sociocultural functions we recognize in various media discourses. Furthermore, the study of media narratives will be deepened following different theoretical and methodological paradigms, from the primary to post-classical narratology, in this case with diverse interdisciplinary crossings.

Head Lecturer(s)

Carlos António Alves dos Reis

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Synthesis work: 20.0%
Resolution Problems: 30.0%
Report of a seminar or field trip: 50.0%

Bibliography

BIGNELL, Jonathan (2000). Postmodern media cultura. Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ. Press.

FULTON, Helen et alii (2005). Narrative and Media. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press.

HERMAN, David (ed.) (1999). Narratologies: new perspectives on narrative analysis. Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press.

HERMAN, David; JAHN, M.; RYAN, M.-L. (eds.) (2005). The Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory. London: Routledge.

HÜHN, P.  et alii eds. (2009), Handbook of Narratology. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. 

NASH, Christopher (1990). Narrative in Culture. The Uses of Storytelling in the Sciences, Philosophy and Literature. London and New York: Routledge. 

PRINCE, Gerald (2003). A Dictionary of Narratology. Revised Edition. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

REIS, Carlos e LOPES, Ana Cristina M. (2011). Dicionário de Narratologia. 7ª ed. Coimbra:  Almedina.

RYAN, M.-L. (ed.). (2004). Narrative across Media. The Languages of Storytelling.        Lincoln/London: The Univ. of Nebraska Press.