Political Language: Analyzing State-‘Created’ Categories

About

Residents meet the state indirectly, cradle-to-grave, via registration forms and their category language. This course explores comparative, state-driven category-making and category analysis.

Course leader

Dvora Yanow Guest professor of Communication, Philosophy and Technology Department of Social Sciences Wageningen University

Target group

- Master
- PhD
- Post-doc
- Professional

This PhD level course is open to all researchers aiming at bringing their research to the next level. It is particularly designed for those who have encountered the use of categories in their research fieldwork (whether in archival-documentary materials, in interviewing or in participant observer ethnography) and seek a more systematic understanding of their significance in that research setting/topic.

Course aim

After this course you are able to:

- Analyze a set of categories that appear in your own research materials.
- Have a fuller understanding of the meaning of the linguistic turn.

Fee info