Literature as Social Discourse
Author | : Roger Fowler |
Publisher | : B. T. Batsford Limited |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Criticism |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Roger Fowler |
Publisher | : B. T. Batsford Limited |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Criticism |
ISBN | : |
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.
Author | : Hazel R. Wright |
Publisher | : Open Book Publishers |
Total Pages | : 379 |
Release | : 2020-07-03 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1783748540 |
What are the influences that govern how people view their worlds? What are the embedded values and practices that underpin the ways people think and act? Discourses We Live By approaches these questions through narrative research, in a process that uses words, images, activities or artefacts to ask people – either individually or collectively within social groupings – to examine, discuss, portray or otherwise make public their place in the world, their sense of belonging to (and identity within) the physical and cultural space they inhabit. This book is a rich and multifaceted collection of twenty-eight chapters that use varied lenses to examine the discourses that shape people’s lives. The contributors are themselves from many backgrounds – different academic disciplines within the humanities and social sciences, diverse professional practices and a range of countries and cultures. They represent a broad spectrum of age, status and outlook, and variously apply their research methods – but share a common interest in people, their lives, thoughts and actions. Gathering such eclectic experiences as those of student-teachers in Kenya, a released prisoner in Denmark, academics in Colombia, a group of migrants learning English, and gambling addiction support-workers in Italy, alongside more mainstream educational themes, the book presents a fascinating array of insights. Discourses We Live By will be essential reading for adult educators and practitioners, those involved with educational and professional practice, narrative researchers, and many sociologists. It will appeal to all who want to know how narratives shape the way we live and the way we talk about our lives.
Author | : Gérard Genette |
Publisher | : New York : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : French literature |
ISBN | : 9780231049849 |
Author | : K.M. Newton |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 1997-09-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1349259349 |
A thoroughly revised edition of this successful undergraduate introduction to literary theory, this text includes core pieces by leading theorists from Russian Formalists to Postmodernist and Post-colonial critics. An ideal teaching resource, with helpful introductory notes to each chapter.
Author | : Antonio Gomez-Moriana |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 189 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Discourse analysis, Literary |
ISBN | : 145290104X |
Author | : Bryan D. Palmer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 1990-01 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780877227205 |
"Critical theory is no substitute for historical materialism; language is not life." With this statement, Bryan Palmer enters the debate that is now transforming and disrupting a number of academic disciplines, including political science, women's studies, and history. Focusing on the ways in which literary or critical theory is being promoted within the field of social history, he argues forcefully that the current reliance on poststructuralism--with its reification of discourse and avoidance of the structures of oppression and struggles of resistance--obscures the origins, meanings, and consequences of historical events and processes. Palmer is concerned with the emergence of "language" as a central focus of intellectual work in the twentieth century. He locates the implosion of theory that moved structuralism in the direction of poststructuralism and deconstruction in what he calls the descent into discourse. Few historians who champion poststructuralist thought, according to Palmer, appreciate historical materialism's capacity to address discourse meaningfully. Nor do many of the advocates of language within the field of social history have an adequate grounding in the theoretical making of the project they champion so ardently. Palmer roots his polemical challenge in an effort to "introduce historians more fully to the theoretical writing that many are alluding to and drawing from rather cavalierly." Acknowledging that critical theory can contribute to an understanding of some aspects of the past, Palmer nevertheless argues for the centrality of materialism to the project of history. In specific discussions of how critical theory is constructing histories of politics, class, and gender, he traces the development of the descent into discourse within social history, mapping the limitations of recent revisionist texts. Much of this writing, he contends, is undertheorized and represents a problematic retreat from prior histories that attempted to address such material forces as economic structures, political power, and class struggle. Descent into Discourse counters current intellectual fashion with an eloquent argument for the necessity to analyze and appreciate lived experience and the structures of subordination and power in any quest for historical meaning.
Author | : Teun Adrianus van Dijk |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 1985-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780915027552 |
"Discourse and Literature "boldly integrates the analysis of literature and non-literary genres in an innovative embracing study of discourse. Narrative, poetry, drama, myths, songs, letters, Biblical discourse and graffiti as well as stylistics and rhetorics are the topics treaded by twelve well-known specialists selected and introduced by Teun A. van Dijk.
Author | : Gwen Bouvier |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 2018-02-02 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 131727699X |
Discourse and Social Media is a unique and timely collection that breaks ground on how discourse scholars, coming from a range of disciplinary perspectives, can critically analyse different social media, including YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and News. The book fills a gap in the market for a multi-disciplinary collection for analysing the discourse of social media. In providing a thorough review of the field to date, the opening chapter considers some of the common and divergent interests and priorities that exist in social media discourse analysis. It also discusses the wider methodological and theoretical implications which social media analysis brings to the process of discourse analysis, as new forms of connections and communication call us to re-think the static models that we have been using. The rest of the collection draws on different traditions in discourse studies, including Critical Discourse Analysis, Sociolinguistics, Pragmatics, Foucaultian analysis and Multimodality, to bring several unique approaches to critically analysing social media from a discourse perspective. Each ground-breaking chapter shows how different forms of social media data can best be selected, analysed, and dealt with critically. As a whole, Discourse and Social Media provides a go-to resource for social media scholars, as well as graduate students. The book is a significant contribution to the development of the field at this present shifting time. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Multicultural Discourses.
Author | : Kevin C Dunn |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2016-03-03 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0472121901 |
Kevin C. Dunn and Iver B. Neumann offer a concise, accessible introduction to discourse analysis in the social sciences. A vital resource for students and scholars alike, Undertaking Discourse Analysis for Social Research combines a theoretical and conceptual review with a “how-to” guide for using the method. In the first part of the book, the authors discuss the development of discourse analysis as a research method and identify the main theoretical elements and epistemological assumptions that have led to its emergence as one of the primary qualitative methods of analysis in contemporary scholarship. Then, drawing from a wide-range of examples of social science scholarship, Dunn and Neumann provide an indispensable guide to the variety of ways discourse analysis has been used. They delve into what is gained by using this approach and demonstrate how one actually applies it. They cover such important issues as research prerequisites, how one conceives of a research question, what “counts” as evidence, how one “reads” the data, and some common obstacles and pitfalls. The result is a clear and accessible manual for successfully implementing discourse analysis in social research.