Discourses in Action: What Language Enables Us to Do
- ISBN-10
- 1000026078
- ISBN-13
- 9781000026078
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 196
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020-02-14
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Authors
- Klaus Krippendorff, Nour Halabi
Description
This interdisciplinary collection brings together leading and emerging scholars of discourse, conceptualizing how discursive practices shape social, political, and even material realities today. Discourses in Action presents a wide range of essays that explore fundamental concerns for the social consequences of text, talk, and discursively informed actions and possibilities of discursive engagement. It opens new perspectives on what language does and the differences that scholarly and practical contributions can make. Chapters cover diverse topics, ranging from political struggles, climate change, social revolutions, ethnicity, violence and other often unexpected patterns of discursive consequences. Its essays also explore the cultural contingencies that underlie discourse practices which are usually ignored when analysed from within a taken-for-granted culture. Providing a useful examination of current discourse studies, this interdisciplinary volume is ideal for students and researchers within media, communication, discourse analysis, linguistics, cultural studies, and the sociology of knowledge.
Get the book
Similar books
-
DISCOURSES IN ACTION: What Language Enables Us to Do
"This interdisciplinary collection brings together leading and emerging scholars of discourse, conceptualizing how discursive practices shape social, political, and even material realities.
-
Discourse in Action: Introducing Mediated Discourse Analysis
By Rodney H Jones, Sigrid Norriscould be seen on the My China Jewel [US] website even before a specific child was even referred to the couple. The child is scaled up as an absent member of the family, in stark contrast to the Scandinavian websites that avoid talking ...
-
Voice, Agency and Resistance: Emancipatory Discourses in Action
By Mark NarteyDrawing on data from Africa, Latin America, North America, and the Arab Levant, this book demonstrates how members of marginalized (disempowered) groups sculpt a positive image for themselves, engage in solidarity formation for group ...
-
The Discourse of Politics in Action: Politics as Usual
By R. WodakThe book offers answers to the widely discussed phenomena of disenchantment with politics and depoliticization.
-
Mediated Discourse: The Nexus of Practice
By Ron ScollonLanguage and action are intimately related. The difficult question to answer is how. Looks at how use of language is both a form of action in itself and is also indirectly related to all other forms of human action.
-
Doing Discourse Analysis: Methods for Studying Action in Talk and Text
By Linda A. Wood, Rolf O. Kroger"Providing both the practical steps for doing discourse analysis and the theoretical justifications for these steps, this book is for students and researchers undertaking discourse analysis."--BOOK JACKET.
-
Methods of Critical Discourse Analysis
By Michael Meyer, Ruth WodakThe authors introduce the various theories, methods and applications associated with the sociolinguistic approach known as critical discourse analysis. The authors assume no previous knowledge of the subject.
-
Real Talk: Reality Television and Discourse Analysis in Action
By Pilar Garces-Conejos BlitvichThis is the first book to examine the discourse of reality television.
-
Discourse as Social Interaction
By Teun A Van Dijk, Teun A. van DijkThe 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.
-
Methods for Critical Discourse Analysis
By Michael Meyer, Ruth WodakThis book will be of great interest to students and researchers in linguistics, sociology and psychology interested in interdisciplinary approaches to coping with topical social problems.