CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

  This data exercise requires you to choose an animated Disney movie and analyze it utilizing critical discourse analysis. Your learning from Module on Discourse Analysis and Critical Discourse Analysis will help you to conduct necessary analysis.You will primarily examine the way societal power relations are reflected and reinforced through language use (verbal or nonverbal means) in your chosen animated movie. You will pay special attention to issues of power asymmetries, and structural inequalities that has been explicitly or implicitly portrayed in the movie. When watching the movie pay attention to the following: -Language choices concerning accent use -More specifically the use accents to express the nature of the characters -Language-based stereotypes -Gender roles and/or stereotypes -Ethnic or racial-based stereotypes