La argumentación en la enunciación


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Este libro ofrece explicación a la propuesta teórico-metodológica para el análisis de los discursos desde la Dinámica Social Enunciativa. El punto de partida es una aproximación socio-enunciativa a los géneros discursivos donde la noción de contexto integrado permite explicar la fusión estrecha que se produce entre las prácticas sociales y los usos del lenguaje en la actividad discursiva. El apoyo teórico-metodológico es una perspectiva socio-histórica y cultural de base dialógica donde el enunciado es el "lugar común" de encuentro entre la Situación de Comunicación y la Situación de Enunciación lo cual permite dar cuenta de la gran heterogeneidad discursiva. El interés no es pues un estudio sociológico externo de los sujetos sino más bien ver el encuentro de contextos diversos y mixtos en el escenario discursivo o terreno común del enunciado ni la búsqueda de la psicología del sujeto autor o auditor, sino más bien el análisis de la confluencia de valores sociales y culturales diversos en el mismo terreno común. Tampoco se trata de hacer la taxonomía de actos de habla o de esquemas argumentativos utilizados para persuadir sino más bien ver la relación de los procedimientos discursivos con la pluralidad de voces y de puntos de vista que dan cuenta de la estratificación construida en el mismo escenario: el enunciado. Se ofrecen categorías e instrumentos metodológicos para observar los procedimientos discursivos utilizados en la construcción discursiva de los sujetos (del Ethos discursivo) y para ello también se busca una integración de las tres perspectivas de la argumentación más conocidas, la Analítica-práctica de Toulmin, la Nueva Retórica de Perelman y la Dialéctica-crítica de van Eemeren, con las relaciones de fuerza social que se construyen entre los sujetos discursivos en la dinámica social enunciativa de un género discursivo particular. Los discursos polémicos nos ofrecen un gran escenario para el análisis de las dimensiones –valores, razones y emociones– construidas con un acento especial en una o dos de ellas o bien las tres de manera integrada en el discurso.







Genre in a Changing World


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Genre studies and genre approaches to literacy instruction continue to develop in many regions and from a widening variety of approaches. Genre has provided a key to understanding the varying literacy cultures of regions, disciplines, professions, and educational settings. GENRE IN A CHANGING WORLD provides a wide-ranging sampler of the remarkable variety of current work. The twenty-four chapters in this volume, reflecting the work of scholars in Europe, Australasia, and North and South America, were selected from the over 400 presentations at SIGET IV (the Fourth International Symposium on Genre Studies) held on the campus of UNISUL in Tubarão, Santa Catarina, Brazil in August 2007—the largest gathering on genre to that date. The chapters also represent a wide variety of approaches, including rhetoric, Systemic Functional Linguistics, media and critical cultural studies, sociology, phenomenology, enunciation theory, the Geneva school of educational sequences, cognitive psychology, relevance theory, sociocultural psychology, activity theory, Gestalt psychology, and schema theory. Sections are devoted to theoretical issues, studies of genres in the professions, studies of genre and media, teaching and learning genre, and writing across the curriculum. The broad selection of material in this volume displays the full range of contemporary genre studies and sets the ground for a next generation of work.




Studies in Philology


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Linguistics, Literature and Cultural Studies are the three main research areas within Philology. Scientific production, such as conferences and journals, has tended towards specialization, and has been traditionally classified according to separate disciplines and languages. However, this volume offers a holistic view of the wide area of Philology, therefore allowing the permeability of the three areas mentioned above. As such, this book shows that the line that separates Linguistics, Literature and Cultural Studies is actually very thin. This volume is composed of a miscellanea of philological studies dealing with various trends in Modern Language research. It looks at three languages in particular: Spanish, English and French, with a special relevance to the first two.




Fue una historia real


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What Writing Does and How It Does It


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In What Writing Does and How It Does It, editors Charles Bazerman and Paul Prior offer a sophisticated introduction to methods for understanding, studying, and analyzing texts and writing practices. This volume addresses a variety of approaches to analyzing texts, and considers the processes of writing, exploring textual practices and their contexts, and examining what texts do and how texts mean rather than what they mean. Included are traditional modes of analysis (rhetorical, literary, linguistic), as well as newer modes, such as text and talk, genre and activity analysis, and intertextual analysis. The chapters have been developed to provide answers to a specified set of questions, with each one offering: *a preview of the chapter's content and purpose; *an introduction to basic concepts, referring to key theoretical and research studies in the area; *details on the types of data and questions for which the analysis is best used; *examples from a wide-ranging group of texts, including educational materials, student writing, published literature, and online and electronic media; *one or more applied analyses, with a clear statement of procedures for analysis and illustrations of a particular sample of data; and *a brief summary, suggestions for additional readings, and a set of activities. The side-by-side comparison of methods allows the reader to see the multi-dimensionality of writing, facilitating selection of the best method for a particular research question. The volume contributors are experts from linguistics, communication studies, rhetoric, literary analysis, document design, sociolinguistics, education, ethnography, and cultural psychology, and each utilizes a specific mode of text analysis. With its broad range of methodological examples, What Writing Does and How It Does It is a unique and invaluable resource for advanced undergraduate and graduate students and for researchers in education, composition, ESL and applied linguistics, communication, L1 and L2 learning, print media, and electronic media. It will also be useful in all social sciences and humanities that place importance on texts and textual practices, such as English, writing, and rhetoric.




EBOOK: Meaning Making in Secondary Science Classroomsaa


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This book focuses on the talk of science classrooms and in particular on the ways in which the different kinds of interactions between teachers and students contribute to meaning making and learning. Central to the text is a new analytical framework for characterising the key features of the talk of school science classrooms. This framework is based on sociocultural principles and links the work of theorists such as Vygotsky and Bakhtin to the day-to-day interactions of contemporary science classrooms. *presents a framework, based on sociocultural theory, for analysing the language of teaching and learning interactions in science classrooms *provides detailed examples and illustrations of insights gained from applying the framework to real science lessons in Brazil and the UK. *demonstrates how these ways of thinking about classroom talk can be drawn upon to inform the professional development of science teachers. *offers an innovative research methodology, based on sociocultural theory, for analysing classroom talk. *expands upon the ways in which sociocultural theory has been systematically applied to analysing classroom contexts. This book offers a powerful set of tools for thinking and talking about the day-to-day practices of contemporary science classrooms. It contains messages of fundamental importance and insight for all of those who are interested in reflecting on the interactions of science teaching and learning, whether in the context of teaching, higher degree study, or research.







Oprah Winfrey and the Glamour of Misery


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Oprah Winfrey is an unprecedented and important cultural phenomenon. This book aims to understand the reasons for her spectacular success and visibility. Based on nearly one hundred show transcripts; a year and a half of watching the show regularly; and analysis of magazine articles, several biographies, O Magazine, Oprah Book Club novels, self-help manuals promoted on the show, and hundreds of messages on the Oprah Winfrey Web site, it takes the Oprah industry seriously in order to ask fundamental questions about how culture works today.