Discourses in Action
What Language Enables Us to Do
1st Edition
Published on 22. January 2020
Book
Hardback
196 pages
978-0-367-40420-8 (ISBN)
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.
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
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8 s/w Abbildungen, 4 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder, 4 s/w Zeichnungen
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Height: 236 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
431 gr
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978-0-367-40420-8 (9780367404208)
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Persons
Klaus Krippendorff (Ph.D., Ph.D.h.c) is the Gregory Bateson Professor for Language, Cybernetics, and Culture at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. He pioneered work on communication theory, content analysis, and methods of design semantics. As a critical scholar he examines discursive constructions of realities and paths of liberation from oppression.
Nour Halabi (Ph.D.) is a Lecturer of Media and Communication at the University of Leeds and the Vice-Chair of the MeCCSA Race Network. Her interdisciplinary research examines the interactions between mobility, social movements and global media. She received her doctorate from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania and her Masters from The London School of Economics.
Nour Halabi (Ph.D.) is a Lecturer of Media and Communication at the University of Leeds and the Vice-Chair of the MeCCSA Race Network. Her interdisciplinary research examines the interactions between mobility, social movements and global media. She received her doctorate from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania and her Masters from The London School of Economics.
Content
Introduction:
Why Discourses in Action
Klaus Krippendorff
PART I Divergent Approaches to Discourse Analyses
Rachel Stonecipher
Analysing the Politics of Denial:
Critical Discourse Studies and the Discourse-Historical Approach
Ruth Wodak
Discourse as Ventriloquy:
A Pragmatic/Relational Analysis of Media as Agents
Francois Cooren
Discursive Construction:
A Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse Analysis
Reiner Keller
Discursive Psychology:
A Non-Cognitivist Approach to Practices of Knowing
Jonathan Potter
PART II Three Prototypical Studies of Discourses in Action
Nour Halabi
Re-Contextualizing Visual Representations:
The Videos Of and About Police Accountability in Three Competing Discourses
Mary Angela Bock
Discourses for Transformation?
Activism, Climate Change, Power and Pathways to the Future
Anabela Carvalho
The Circulation of Constitutional Discourse
Greg Urban
Cultural Contingencies of Discursive Practices
Kate Zambon
Competing Discourses of Power and Resistance:
The Cultural Contexts of the Shifting Revolutionary Rhetoric in Egypt
Sahar Khamis
One Case, Two Verdicts:
The Vertical Interplay of Authoritative Discourses in China
Hailong Tian
Discourses of Dissent:
The Role of Speech and Action in Israeli Grassroots Activism
Tamar Katriel
Why Discourses in Action
Klaus Krippendorff
PART I Divergent Approaches to Discourse Analyses
Rachel Stonecipher
Analysing the Politics of Denial:
Critical Discourse Studies and the Discourse-Historical Approach
Ruth Wodak
Discourse as Ventriloquy:
A Pragmatic/Relational Analysis of Media as Agents
Francois Cooren
Discursive Construction:
A Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse Analysis
Reiner Keller
Discursive Psychology:
A Non-Cognitivist Approach to Practices of Knowing
Jonathan Potter
PART II Three Prototypical Studies of Discourses in Action
Nour Halabi
Re-Contextualizing Visual Representations:
The Videos Of and About Police Accountability in Three Competing Discourses
Mary Angela Bock
Discourses for Transformation?
Activism, Climate Change, Power and Pathways to the Future
Anabela Carvalho
The Circulation of Constitutional Discourse
Greg Urban
Cultural Contingencies of Discursive Practices
Kate Zambon
Competing Discourses of Power and Resistance:
The Cultural Contexts of the Shifting Revolutionary Rhetoric in Egypt
Sahar Khamis
One Case, Two Verdicts:
The Vertical Interplay of Authoritative Discourses in China
Hailong Tian
Discourses of Dissent:
The Role of Speech and Action in Israeli Grassroots Activism
Tamar Katriel