https://at-ceu.studyguide.timeedit.net/modules/GENS5108?type=COREThis course is one of the mandatory courses in the field of methodology. It focuses on the interdisciplinary category of'discourse' that conceptualizes the use of various sign systems as an integralpart of social events. Our objective is to explore Foucault's approach to discourse and its reframing froman intersectional perspective, both in terms of their theoretical and methodological differences. In the first threeclasses, we shall define the concept of discourse and the main characteristicsof qualitative (interpretative) research. The major aim is to understand discourse as an explanatory categorybeyond the dichotomy of text/context and the consequences of the conceptualization for an analysis that aims to study actual discourses. In the restof the course, we shall study samples of analysis and learn how to substantiate one's own claims to particular discourses at play in their "data'. The focus ofanalysis is on the meaning of the key concepts identified in a text and their ideological investments. In short, we shall explore the relationship between language (thelinguistic sign system) and power. The steps of analysis need to identify the value systems and sets of beliefs articulated by the linguistic devices the'data' draws on and their discrepancies and similarities. The actual sample analyses on the reading list are chosen to demonstrate how to study (1)the textual means of producing the perspective of a particular discourse and (2) the multiple constituent elements of the meaning of a given concept and seethat an intersectional analysis consists in the identification of these elements and the logic that pieces them into a coherent, intelligible pattern.Such an analysis makes use of relative but relevant distinctions of the constituent elements as well as that of the particular relations of power shaping the meanings of categories coherent enough for a given speech community. The specific focus of analysis will be on theovert and covert encodings of sexuality and gender. We shall study the ways different forms of social domination, such as ethnicity, race, or class, cometo be textually mediated and signify 'gender' or 'sexuality' and the other way round, how gender and sexuality may signify racialization, agism, or religionfaith-based discrimination, etc.