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

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

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.

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

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.

Politics, Discourse, and American Society

Politics, Discourse, and American Society
Author: Roderick P. Hart
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2001
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780742500716

What is the purpose of public talk in a democratic society? Do the American people interact with their government in distinctive ways? Are the nation's mass media helpful or harmful to the democratic experience? In Politics, Discourse, and American Society, some of the nation's best young scholars take us beyond conventional perspectives to present original work on how politics is transacted in American society and how public communication affects those transactions. They also lay out directions for future research, thereby putting fresh ideas on the scholarly agenda. The authors ask whether the American president is genuinely powerful, if lawsuits have become a way of changing the nation's politics, whether public opinion polling is really objective, and whether politics can still be distinguished from pop culture.

Discourse in Society

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

Mastering Discourse

Mastering Discourse
Author: Paul A. Bové
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1992
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780822312451

Mastering Discourse gathers and elaborates more than a decade of thought on the problems of the intellectual in contemporary society, by one of the most distinguished critics writing on these issues today. From Derrida and Foucault to Kristeva and Irigaray, Paul A. Bové looks at the practices of literary and cultural theory, and discusses the way theorists have produced their institutional positions and politics. Examining some of the major theories developed out of and in relation to the problems of discourse, Bové analyzes the limited successes and failures of these efforts. Mastering Discourses offers an account of why "theory" fails to deal adequately with the politics of discursive cultures and warns that unless critics take much more seriously their own disciplinary inscriptions they will always reproduce structures of power and knowledge that they claim to oppose. Moreover, Bové argues, they will not fulfill the main role of the post-enlightenment intellectual, namely: to respond effectively to the present, through new theoretical and historical formulations that address the changing world of transnational capitalism and its neoliberal ideologies.

Discourse and Social Change

Discourse and Social Change
Author: Norman Fairclough
Publisher: Polity
Total Pages: 272
Release: 1993-06-07
Genre: 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.

Society and Language Use

Society and Language Use
Author: Jürgen Jaspers
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2010-09-10
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027289166

The ten volumes of Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights focus on the most salient topics in the field of pragmatics, thus dividing its wide interdisciplinary spectrum in a transparent and manageable way. While the other volumes select specific philosophical, cognitive, grammatical, cultural, variational, interactional, or discursive angles, this seventh volume underlines the mutually constitutive relation between society and language use. It highlights a number of the most prominent approaches of this relation and it draws attention to a selected number of topics that the study of language in its social context has characteristically brought to bear. Despite their theoretical and methodological differences, each of the chapters in this book assumes that it is necessary to look at society and language use as interdependent phenomena, and that by attending to microscopic linguistic phenomena one is also keeping a finger on the pulse of broader, macroscopic social tendencies that at the same time facilitate and constrain language use. The introduction provides a sketch of the intellectual antecedents of the volume’s two ‘mother disciplines’, viz., linguistics and social theory before pointing at recent common ground in the rising attention for discourse and what has come to be called ‘late-modernity’.

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

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.

Science As Power

Science As Power
Author: Stanley Aronowitz
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 402
Release:
Genre:
ISBN: 1452900108

Science has established itself as not merely the dominant but the only legitimate form of human knowledge. By tying its truth claims to methodology, science has claimed independence from the influence of social and historical conditions. Here, Aronowitz asserts that the norms of science are by no means self-evident and that science is best seen as a socially constructed discourse that legitimates its power by presenting itself as truth.