Communication and Information Studies

Universiteit van Amsterdam

The Master's in Communication and Information provides you with a solid theoretical and methodological foundation for understanding the way in which language is used for informative and argumentative

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Academic master

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Course

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Description

It offers insight into verbal communication in a range of practical settings, including parliamentary debate, political speeches, legal decisions, legislative debates, drug advertisements, doctor-to-patient consultation, mediation, negotiations and academic research papers, and allows you to specialise in one specific communicative genre. You will learn to analyse verbal communication in prevalent genres from political, legal, health and academic domains. You are trained to analyse and evaluate the discourse in these genres using insights from discourse analysis, argumentation theory, rhetoric, genre theory and stylistics.