The basic levels of language (phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics) all contribute to meaning making, but interpretation of texts exceeds a configuration of all these levels of encoded language. This course aims to transgress the linguistic level and look at meanings and interpretations as social constructs. In effect, it will be looking at ‘hidden’ meanings of texts that often generate ideological complexes unawares of their readers/audiences. The analysis exceeds the language level and is social and critical in perspective in an effort to ‘dehabituate’ or ‘denaturalize’ texts and discourses through a distanced but informed critical stance. The critical analysis will also be multimodal to an extent as meaning-making uses multiple modes of communication
