Discourse Theory And Practice

Author : Margaret Wetherell
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780761971566
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Discourse Theory and Practice written by Margaret Wetherell and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2001-05-25 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text provides specially written profiles of eight key discourse analysts, describing each one's main contribution to the field, and introducing their method of discourse analysis.

Author : Ron Scollon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134535880
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mediated Discourse written by Ron Scollon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-26 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mediated Discourse: The Nexus of Practice sets out a discursive theory of human action. Language and action are intimately related. The difficult question to answer is how they are related. Mediated Discourse Theory looks into social relationships to see how the use of language is both a form of action in itself and is also indirectly related to all other forms of human action. Through the empirical study of a one year old child learning to exchange objects with caregivers, Scollon challenges the commonly held claim that all practices are represented in discourse and that all discourse has the function of structuring practice. Calling upon work in interactional sociolinguistics, critical discourse analysis, anthropological linguistics, sociocultural psychology, and intercultural communication, the Mediated Discourse Theory set out in this book resolves current problematic issues such as how practices are learned across the boundaries of groups and how individuals come to be socialized as social actors.

Author : Paul Anthony Chilton
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415314718
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Analysing Political Discourse written by Paul Anthony Chilton and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on Aristotle's premise that we are all political animals, able to use language to pursue our own ends, this text uses the theoretical framework of linguistics to explore the ways in which we think and behave politically.

Author : Marianne W Jorgensen
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1847876927
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Discourse Analysis as Theory and Method written by Marianne W Jorgensen and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2002-10-10 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discourse Analysis as Theory and Method is a systematic introduction to discourse analysis as a body of theories and methods for social research. It brings together three central approaches, Laclau and Mouffe′s discourse theory, critical discourse analysis and discursive psychology, in order to establish a dialogue between different forms of discourse analysis often kept apart by disciplinary boundaries. The book introduces the three approaches in a clear and easily comprehensible manner, explaining the distinctive philosophical premises and theoretical perspectives of each approach as well as the methodological guidelines and tools they provide for empirical discourse analysis. The authors also demonstrate the possibilities for combining different discourse analytical and non-discourse analytical approaches in empirical study. Finally, they contextualize discourse analysis within the social constructionist debate about critical social research, rejecting the view that a critical stance is incompatible with social constructionist premises and arguing that critique must be an inherent part of social research.

Author : Aditi Bhatia
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317691865
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Discursive Illusions in Public Discourse written by Aditi Bhatia and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a unique perspective into the investigation and analysis of public discourses, such as those of the environment, politics, and social media, springing from issues of key relevance to contemporary society, including the War on Terror, the ‘Arab Spring’, and the climate-change debate. Employing a qualitative approach, and drawing on data which comprises both written and spoken discourses, including policy documents, political speeches, press conferences, blog entries, informational leaflets, and corporate reports, the book puts forward a unique theoretical framework, that of the Discourse of Illusion. The research draws on discourse analysis, in order to develop and implement a multi-perspective framework that allows a closer look at the intentions of the producer/actor of various discourses, power struggles within social domains, in addition to the socio-political and historical contexts which influence the individual repositories of experience that create multiple, often contesting, arguments on controversial issues, consequently giving rise to discursive illusions. Discursive Illusions in Public Discourse: Theory and practice intensively explores the discourse of illusion within multifarious dimensions of contemporary public discourses, such as: • Political Voices in Terrorism • Activist Voices in New Media • Corporate Voices in Climate Change This book will particularly appeal to researchers working within the field of discourse analysis, and more generally for students of postgraduate research and specialists in the field of language, linguistics, and media. The book can also be used as a guide for non-specialists in better understanding the complexities of public discourses, and how they shape society’s perceptions of some key social and political issues.

Author : Alan Partington
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027272123
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Patterns and Meanings in Discourse written by Alan Partington and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is designed, firstly, to both provoke theoretical discussion and serve as a practical guide for researchers and students in the field of corpus linguistics and, secondly, to offer a wide-ranging introduction to corpus techniques for practitioners of discourse studies. It delves into a wide variety of language topics and areas including metaphor, irony, evaluation, (im)politeness, stylistics, language change and sociopolitical issues. Each chapter begins with an outline of an area, followed by case studies which attempt both to shed light on particular themes in this area and to demonstrate the methodologies which might be fruitfully employed to investigate them. The chapters conclude with suggestions on activities which the readers may wish to undertake themselves. An Appendix contains a list of currently available resources for corpus research which were used or mentioned in the book.

Author : Johannes Angermuller
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 902727018X
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Discourse Studies Reader written by Johannes Angermuller and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2014-06-19 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discourse Studies is an interdisciplinary field studying the social production of meaning across the entire spectrum of the social sciences and humanities. The Discourse Studies Reader brings together 40 key readings from discourse researchers in Europe and North America, some of which are now translated into English for the first time. Divided into seven sections – ‘Theoretical Inspirations: Structuralism versus Pragmatics’, ‘From Structuralism to Poststructuralism’, ‘Enunciative Pragmatics’, ‘Interactionism’, ‘Sociopragmatics’, ‘Historical Knowledge’ and ‘Critical Approaches’ – The Discourse Studies Reader offers a comprehensive overview of the main currents in discourse studies, both discourse theory and discourse analysis. With short introductions elaborating the broader context, the sections present key selections from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds by placing them into their respective epistemological traditions. The Discourse Studies Reader is an indispensable textbook for students and scholars alike who are interested in discourse theoretical questions and working with discourse analytical methods.

Author : Daniel Marcu
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262133722
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Theory and Practice of Discourse Parsing and Summarization written by Daniel Marcu and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most discourse researchers assume that full semantic understanding is necessary to derive the discourse structure of texts. This book documents an attempt to construct and use automatic and non-semantic computational structures for text summarization.

Author : David Howarth
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
ISBN 13 : 0335231837
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Discourse written by David Howarth and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2000-12-16 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * What do we mean by discourse? * What are the different conceptions of discourse and methods of discourse analysis in the contemporary social sciences? * How can this concept help to clarify key theoretical problems and illuminate empirical cases? The concept of discourse provokes considerable debate and is understood in a variety of ways in the contemporary social sciences. This text presents a comprehensive overview of the different conceptions and methods of discourse analysis, while setting out the traditions of thinking in which these conceptions have emerged. It surveys structuralist, post-structuralist and post-Marxist theory, and the author sets out a fresh approach to discourse analysis, drawing principally on the writings of Saussure, Levi-Strauss, Gramsci, Althusser, Foucault, Derrida, Laclau and Mouffe. He evaluates a number of pertinent criticisms of this approach, and explores ways in which discourse analysis can assist our understanding of identity formation, hegemony, and the relationship between structure and agency. This concise and engaging text provides a stimulating introduction to the concept of discourse for students and researchers across the social sciences.

Author : Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134808194
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Texts and Practices written by Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text and Practices provides an essential introduction to the theory and practice of Critical Discourse Analysis. Using insights from this challenging new method of linguiistic analysis, the contributors to this text reveal the ways in whcih language can be used as a means of social control. The essays in Text and Practices: * demonstrate how critical discourse analysis can be applied to a variety of written and spoken texts * deconstruct data from a range of contexts, countries and spheres * expose hidden patterns of discrimination and inequalities of power Texts and Practices, which includes specially commissioned papers from a range of distinguished authors, provides a state-of-the-art introduction to critical discourse analysis. As such it represents an important contribution to this developing field and an essential text for all advanced students of language, media and cultural studies.