Mediated Discourse
The nexus of practice
Published on 26. September 2002
192 pages
978-1-134-53589-7 (ISBN)
Description
Mediated Discourse: The Nexus of Practice sets out a discursive theory of human action.
Language and action are intimately related. The difficult question to answer is how they are related. Mediated Discourse Theory looks into social relationships to see how the use of language is both a form of action in itself and is also indirectly related to all other forms of human action.
Through the empirical study of a one year old child learning to exchange objects with caregivers, Scollon challenges the commonly held claim that all practices are represented in discourse and that all discourse has the function of structuring practice.
Calling upon work in interactional sociolinguistics, critical discourse analysis, anthropological linguistics, sociocultural psychology, and intercultural communication, the Mediated Discourse Theory set out in this book resolves current problematic issues such as how practices are learned across the boundaries of groups and how individuals come to be socialized as social actors.
Language and action are intimately related. The difficult question to answer is how they are related. Mediated Discourse Theory looks into social relationships to see how the use of language is both a form of action in itself and is also indirectly related to all other forms of human action.
Through the empirical study of a one year old child learning to exchange objects with caregivers, Scollon challenges the commonly held claim that all practices are represented in discourse and that all discourse has the function of structuring practice.
Calling upon work in interactional sociolinguistics, critical discourse analysis, anthropological linguistics, sociocultural psychology, and intercultural communication, the Mediated Discourse Theory set out in this book resolves current problematic issues such as how practices are learned across the boundaries of groups and how individuals come to be socialized as social actors.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
43 s/w Tabellen
43 Tables, black and white
File size
2,56 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-134-53589-7 (9781134535897)
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Person
Ron Scollon is Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University, USA.
Content
Preface 1 Mediated discourse: a discursive theory of human action 2 On the ontogenesis of a social practice 3 On the ontogenesis of a social actor: from object to agency in baby talk 4 Objects as mediational means: the crayon appropriates a child 5 The nexus of practice 6 Mediated discourse as a nexus of practice
