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The theory is applied to the domain of politics, including the debate about the war in Iraq, where political leaders' speeches serve as a case study for detailed contextual analysis."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Teun A. van Dijk
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 24,30 MB
Release : 2009-01-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521516900
The theory is applied to the domain of politics, including the debate about the war in Iraq, where political leaders' speeches serve as a case study for detailed contextual analysis."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 25,16 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
Author : Óscar García Agustín
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 36,71 MB
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027268290
Sociology of Discourse takes the perspective that collective actors like social movements are capable of creating social change from below by creating new institutions through alternative discourses. Institutionalization becomes a process of moving away from existing institutions towards creating new ones. While discourses entail openness and enable the questioning of what is instituted, institutions offer continuity and stability to social mobilizations. This dual movement of openness and stabilization explains how social struggles ensure their continuity, without completely assuming the logic of the dominant order. The book proposes an analytical model of social change, which is unfolded through three intertwined areas: discourse, communication, and institution. Collective experiences of social change, from the anti-globalization movement to Occupy, illustrate the main theoretical points and concepts. Through the example of the Platform for People Affected by Mortgages, the book concludes by analyzing how social change from below is possible.
Author : Teun A Van Dijk
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 47,7 MB
Release : 1997-05-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780803978478
The second volume of this introduction to discourse studies focuses on the fundamental interactional, social, political and cultural functions of text and talk, and shows that discourse is not merely form and meaning, but also action.
Author : Gerlinde Mautner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 21,43 MB
Release : 2010-03-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1135147051
Language plays a central role in creating and sustaining the market society - a society in which market exchange is no longer simply a process, but an all-encompassing social principle. The book examines the phenomena from a linguistic and critical perspective, drawing on critical discourse analysis and sociological treatises of market society.
Author : James Paul Gee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 21,90 MB
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1351580876
Introducing Discourse Analysis: From Grammar to Society is a concise and accessible introduction by bestselling author, James Paul Gee, to the fundamental ideas behind different specific approaches to discourse analysis, or the analysis of language in use. The book stresses how grammar sets up choices for speakers and writers to make, choices which express, not unvarnished truth, but perspectives or viewpoints on reality. In turn, these perspectives are the material from which social interactions, social relations, identity, and politics make and remake society and culture. The book also offers an approach to how discourse analysis can contribute to lessening the ideological divides and echo chambers that so bedevil our world today. Organized in a user-friendly way with short numbered sections and recommended readings, Introducing Discourse Analysis is an essential primer for all students of discourse analysis within linguistics, education, communication studies, and related areas.
Author : Norman Fairclough
Publisher : Polity
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 39,43 MB
Release : 1993-06-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780745612188
Now available in paperback, this book is a critical introduction to discourse analysis as it is practised in a variety of different disciplines today, from linguistics and sociolinguistics to sociology and cultural studies. The author shows how concern with the analysis of discourse can be combined, in a systematic and fruitful way, with an interest in broader problems of social analysis and social change. Fairclough provides a concise and critical review of the methods and results of discourse analysis, discussing the descriptive work of linguists and conversation analysts as well as the more historically and theoretically oriented work of Michel Foucault. He develops an original framework for discourse analysis which firmly situates discourse in a broader context of social relations bringing together text analysis, the analysis of processes of text production and interpretation, and the social analysis of discourse events.
Author : Ruth Wodak
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 43,21 MB
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027227034
Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) has established itself over the past two decades as an area of academic activity in which scholars and students from many different disciplines are involved. It is a field that draws on social theory and aspects of linguistics in order to understand and challenge the discourses of our day. It is time for A New Agenda in the field. The present book is essential for anyone working broadly in the field of discourse analysis in the social sciences. The book includes often critical re-assessments of CDA's assumptions and methods, while proposing new route-maps for innovation. Practical analyses of major issues in discourse analysis are part of this agenda-setting volume.
Author : Michael Stubbs
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 14,99 MB
Release : 1991-01-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0631127631
The study of naturally occurring connected discourse, spoken or written is one of the most promising and rapidly developing areas of linguistics. Traditional linguistics has concentrated on the analysis of single sentence or isolated speech acts. In this important new book Michael Stubbs shows that linguistic concepts can be extended to analyse spontaneous and informal talk in the home, classroom or factory, and, indeed, written narrative. Using copious examples drawn from recorded conversations, field work observations, experimental data and written texts, he explores such questions as how far discourse structure is comparable to sentence structure; whether it is possible to talk of 'well formed' discourse as one does of 'grammatical' sentences; and whether the relation between question and answer in conversation is syntactic, semantic or pragmatic. He also demonstrates some of the limitations of contemporary linguistics and speech act theory which neglect key aspects of native speaker fluency and communicative competence. Alhough written from a predominantly linguistic perspective, the book is informed by insights from sociology and anthropology. Theoretical debate is accompanied by discussion of real life implications, particularly for the teacher. A Final Chapter offers clear and practical guidelines on methods of data collection and analysis for the student and researcher; and the book includes a full bibliography and suggestions for further reading.
Author : Marianne W Jørgensen
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 48,66 MB
Release : 2002-12-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780761971122
A systematic introduction to discourse analysis as a body of theories and methods for social research. Introduces three approaches and explains the distinctive philosophical premises and theoretical perspectives of each approach.