Society and Discourse
Title | Society and Discourse PDF eBook |
Author | Teun A. van Dijk |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
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
Title | Discourse as Social Interaction PDF eBook |
Author | Teun A Van Dijk |
Publisher | SAGE |
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
Title | Language and the Market Society PDF eBook |
Author | Gerlinde Mautner |
Publisher | Routledge |
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.
Science As Power
Title | Science As Power PDF eBook |
Author | Stanley Aronowitz |
Publisher | U of Minnesota Press |
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.
Introducing Discourse Analysis
Title | Introducing Discourse Analysis PDF eBook |
Author | James Paul Gee |
Publisher | Routledge |
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.
Discourse in Society
Title | Discourse in Society PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday |
Publisher | Praeger |
Pages | 330 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN |
Quantifying Approaches to Discourse for Social Scientists
Title | Quantifying Approaches to Discourse for Social Scientists PDF eBook |
Author | Ronny Scholz |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 330 |
Release | 2018-11-27 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3319973703 |
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.