Society and Discourse

Society and Discourse
Author: Teun A. van Dijk
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2009-01-22
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0521516900

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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.

Discourse as Social Interaction

Discourse as Social Interaction
Author: Teun A Van Dijk
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 340
Release: 1997-05-06
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780803978478

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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.

Discourse in Society

Discourse in Society
Author: Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday
Publisher: Praeger
Total Pages: 330
Release: 1995
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

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Sociology of Discourse

Sociology of Discourse
Author: Óscar García Agustín
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2015-09-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027268290

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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.

Introducing Discourse Analysis

Introducing Discourse Analysis
Author: James Paul Gee
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2017-10-02
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1351580876

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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.

The Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse

The Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse
Author: Reiner Keller
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2018-08-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1351690604

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The Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse (SKAD) has reoriented research into social forms, structuration and processes of meaning construction and reality formation; doing so by linking social constructivist and pragmatist approaches with post-structuralist thinking in order to study discourses and create epistemological space for analysing processes of world-making in culturally diverse environments. SKAD is anchored in interpretive traditions of inquiry and allows for broadening – and possibly overcoming – of the epistemological biases and restrictions still common in theories and approaches of Western- and Northern-centric social sciences. An innovative volume, this book is exactly attentive to these empirically based, globally diverse further developments of approach, with a clear focus on the methodology and its implementation. Thus, The Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse presents itself as a research program and locates the approach within the context of interpretive social sciences, followed by eleven chapters on different cases from around the world that highlight certain theoretical questions and methodological challenges. Presenting outstanding applications of the Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse across a wide variety of substantive projects and regional contexts, this text will appeal to postgraduate students and researchers interested in fields such as Discourse Studies, Sociology, Cultural Studies and Qualitative Methodology and Methods.

Language and the Market Society

Language and the Market Society
Author: Gerlinde Mautner
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2010-03-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1135147051

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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.

Quantifying Approaches to Discourse for Social Scientists

Quantifying Approaches to Discourse for Social Scientists
Author: Ronny Scholz
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2018-11-27
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3319973703

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This book provides an overview of a range of quantitative methods, presenting a thorough analytical toolbox which will be of practical use to researchers across the social sciences as they face the challenges raised by new technology-driven language practices. The book is driven by a reflexive mind-set which views quantifying methods as complementary rather than in opposition to qualitative methods, and the chapters analyse a multitude of different intra- and extra-textual context levels essential for the understanding of how meaning is (re-)constructed in society. Uniting contributions from a range of national and disciplinary traditions, the chapters in this volume bring together state-of-the-art research from British, Canadian, French, German and Swiss authors representing the fields of Political Science, Sociology, Linguistics, Computer Science and Statistics. It will be of particular interest to discourse analysts, but also to other scholars working in the digital humanities and with big data of any kind.

Discourse as Social Interaction

Discourse as Social Interaction
Author: Teun A Van Dijk
Publisher: SAGE Publications Limited
Total Pages: 344
Release: 1997-05-06
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

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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.

Discourse and Crisis

Discourse and Crisis
Author: Antoon De Rycker
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 508
Release: 2013-12-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027270929

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Discourse and Crisis: Critical perspectives brings together an exciting collection of studies into crisis as text and context, as unfolding process and unresolved problem. Crisis is viewed as a complex phenomenon that – in its prevalence, disruptiveness and (appearance of) inevitability – is both socially produced and discursively constituted. The book offers multiple critical perspectives: in-depth linguistically informed analyses of the discourses of power and collaboration implicated in crisis construal and recovery; detailed examination of the critical role that language plays during the crisis life-cycle; and further problematization of the semiotic-material complexity of crisis and its usefulness as an analytical concept. The research focus is on the discursive and interactive mediation of crisis in organizational, political and media texts. The volume contains contributions from across the world, offering a polyphonic overview of ‘discourse and crisis’ research. This impressive volume will be useful to researchers and academics working on the intersection of crisis, language and communication. It is also of interest to practitioners in organizational management, politics and policy, and media.