The Power of Discourse
Title | The Power of Discourse PDF eBook |
Author | Moira Chimombo |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 423 |
Release | 2013-04-03 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1136496955 |
This volume is intended for students who desire a practical introduction to the use of language in daily and professional life. It may be used either as part of a course or as an aid to independent study. Readers will find that concepts relating to language and discourse are highlighted in the text, explained clearly, illuminated through examples and practice exercises, and defined in the "Glossary/Index" at the back of the book. Divided into two parts, this text presents an introduction to the elements and practice of discourse analysis in general, as well as an introduction to the actual kinds of discourse crucial to personal and professional life. In Part I, examples and practice exercises are used which make use of a variety of genres common in daily and professional life. Genres included are advertising, biography, travel guide, news clipping, prose fiction, students' writing, telephone conversation, poetry, police-suspect interview, face-to-face conversation, war cry, political speech, medical text, legislation, textbook, discourse of the mentally disturbed, and detective fiction among others. Wherever feasible, authentic examples are used. Part II of the book applies the principles and techniques of Part I to an investigation of discourse in daily use. Chapters include discourse in education, medicine, law, the media, and literature. Not only will these be of particular interest to students planning to enter any of these professions, but will also be of general interest, since all of us encounter them in daily life. As a result, this is a very practical book.
Discourse and Power in a Multilingual World
Title | Discourse and Power in a Multilingual World PDF eBook |
Author | Adrian Blackledge |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2005-01-01 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9789027227058 |
In Discourse and Power in a Multilingual World the discourse of politicians and policy-makers in Britain links languages other than English, and therefore speakers of these languages, with civil disorder and threats to democracy, citizenship and nationhood. These powerful arguments travel along 'chains of discourse' until they gain the legitimacy of the state, and are inscribed in law. The particular focus of this volume is on discourse linking 'race riots' in England in 2001 with the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002, which extended legislation to test the English language proficiency of British citizenship applicants. Adrian Blackledge develops a theoretical and methodological framework which draws on critical discourse analysis to reveal the linguistic character of social and cultural processes and structures; on Bakhtin's notion of the dialogic nature of discourse to demonstrate how voices progressively gain authority; and on Bourdieu's model of symbolic domination to illuminate the way in which linguistic-minority speakers may be complicit in the misrecognition, or valorisation, of the dominant language.
Discourse Power Address
Title | Discourse Power Address PDF eBook |
Author | Stuart Price |
Publisher | Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780754648185 |
'Discourse Power Address' identifies the existence of 'directive' address, a form of strategic communication which is employed in a number of dominant practices, including Advertising, Politics, Public Relations and Corporate representation. Stuart Price
Language, Power and Ideology
Title | Language, Power and Ideology PDF eBook |
Author | Ruth Wodak |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Pages | 310 |
Release | 1989-01-01 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027224161 |
The topic of Language and Ideology has increasingly gained importance in the linguistic sciences. The general aim of critical linguistics is the exploration of the mechanisms of power which establish inequality, through the systematic analysis of political discourse (written or oral). This reader contains papers on a variety of topics, all related to each other through explicit discussions on the notion of ideology from an interdisciplinary approach with illustrative analyses of texts from the media, newspapers, schoolbooks, pamphlets, talkshows, speeches concerning language policy in Nazi-Germany, in Italofascism, and also policies prevalent nowadays. Among the interesting subjects studied are the jargon of the student movement of 1968, speeches of politicians, racist and sexist discourse, and the language of the green movement. Because of the enormous influence of the media nowadays, the explicit analysis of the mechanisms of manipulation, suggestion, and persuasion inherent in language or about language behaviour and strategies of discourse are of social relevance and of interest to all scholars of social sciences, to readers in all educational institutions, to analysts of political discourse, and to critical readers at large.
A Foucault Primer
Title | A Foucault Primer PDF eBook |
Author | Alec McHoul |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 155 |
Release | 2015-03-24 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 113699680X |
Who are we today? That deceptively simple question continued to be asked by the French historian and philosopher, Michel Foucault, who for the last three decades has had a profound influence on English-speaking scholars in the humanities and social sciences.; This text is designed for undergraduates and others who feel in need of some assistance when coming to grips with Foucault's voluminous and complex writings. Instead of dealing with them chronologically, however, this book concentrates on some of their central concepts, primarily Foucault's rethinking of the categories of "discourse", "power", and " the subject".; Foucault's writings contribute collectively to what he himself calls "an ontology of the present". His historical research was always geared towards showing how things could have been and still could be otherwise. This is especially the case with respect to the production of human subjects.
Power in Family Discourse
Title | Power in Family Discourse PDF eBook |
Author | Richard J. Watts |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter |
Pages | 316 |
Release | 2013-06-10 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3110854783 |
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.
The Ideology of Hatred:The Psychic Power of Discourse
Title | The Ideology of Hatred:The Psychic Power of Discourse PDF eBook |
Author | Niza Yanay |
Publisher | Fordham Univ Press |
Pages | 169 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0823250040 |
This book suggests that untying and recognising relations of intimacy and dependency can, under certain circumstances, change the discourse of hatred into relations of peace and even friendship.