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Author : Simon Patrick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (24 download)
Download or read book A Discourse about Tradition written by Simon Patrick and published by . This book was released on 1685 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pascal Boyer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521374170
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (213 download)
Download or read book Tradition as Truth and Communication written by Pascal Boyer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-03-30 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tradition is a central concept in the social sciences, but it is commonly treated as unproblematic. Dr. Boyer insists that social anthropology requires a theory of tradition, its constitution and transmission. He treats tradition "as a type of interaction which results in the repetition of certain communicative events," and therefore as a form of social action. Tradition as Truth and Communication deals particularly with oral communication and focuses on the privileged role of licensed speakers and the ritual contexts in which certain aspects of tradition are characteristically transmitted. Drawing on cognitive psychology, Dr. Boyer proposes a set of general hypotheses to be tested by ethnographic field research. He has opened up an important new field for investigation within social anthropology.
Author : Jeffrey Stout
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691102931
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Democracy and Tradition written by Jeffrey Stout and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asking how the citizens of modern democracy can reason with one another, this book carves out a controversial position between those who view religious voices as an anathema to democracy and those who believe democratic society is a moral wasteland because such voices are not heard.
Author : Carol Lynn Moder
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027230782
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Discourse Across Languages and Cultures written by Carol Lynn Moder and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume seeks to answers such questions as: how is conscious experience translated into discourse? How are foregrounding and backgrounding accomplished? What is the function of features like lexical choice and referential choice? And many more.
Author : Federico Squarcini
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1843313979
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (433 download)
Download or read book Boundaries, Dynamics and Construction of Traditions in South Asia written by Federico Squarcini and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2011-12-15 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Boundaries, Dynamics and Construction of Traditions in South Asia’ explores the dynamic constructions and applications of the concept of ‘tradition’ that occurred within the South Asian context during the ancient and pre-colonial periods. This collection of essays features a significant selection of the specialized fields of knowledge that have shaped classical South Asian intellectual history, and the aim of this volume is to offer a stimulating anthology of papers on the different and complex processes employed during the ‘invention’, construction, preservation and renewal of a given tradition.
Author : Sharon Crowley
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 0822973006
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)
Download or read book Toward a Civil Discourse written by Sharon Crowley and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2006-04-02 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Toward a Civil Discourse examines how, in the current political climate, Americans find it difficult to discuss civic issues frankly and openly with one another. Because America is dominated by two powerful discourses—liberalism and Christian fundamentalism, each of which paints a very different picture of America and its citizens' responsibilities toward their country-there is little common ground, and hence Americans avoid disagreement for fear of giving offence. Sharon Crowley considers the ancient art of rhetoric as a solution to the problems of repetition and condemnation that pervade American public discourse. Crowley recalls the historic rhetorical concept of stasis—where advocates in a debate agree upon the point on which they disagree, thereby recognizing their opponent as a person with a viable position or belief. Most contemporary arguments do not reach stasis, and without it, Crowley states, a nonviolent resolution cannot occur.Toward a Civil Discourse investigates the cultural factors that lead to the formation of beliefs, and how beliefs can develop into densely articulated systems and political activism. Crowley asserts that rhetorical invention (which includes appeals to values and the passions) is superior in some cases to liberal argument (which often limits its appeals to empirical fact and reasoning) in mediating disagreements where participants are primarily motivated by a moral or passionate commitment to beliefs.Sharon Crowley examines numerous current issues and opposing views, and discusses the consequences to society when, more often than not, argumentative exchange does not occur. She underscores the urgency of developing a civil discourse, and through a review of historic rhetoric and its modern application, provides a foundation for such a discourse-whose ultimate goal, in the tradition of the ancients, is democratic discussion of civic issues.
Author : Abdul-Rasheed Na'Allah
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135176973
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)
Download or read book African Discourse in Islam, Oral Traditions, and Performance written by Abdul-Rasheed Na'Allah and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-09-13 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through an engaged analysis of writers such as Wole Soyinka, Ola Rotimi, Niyi Osundare, and Tanure Ojaide and of African traditional oral poets like Omoekee Amao Ilorin and Mamman Shata Katsina, Abdul-Rasheed Na'Allah develops an African indigenous discourse paradigm for interpreting and understanding literary and cultural materials. Na'Allah argues for the need for cultural diversity in critical theorizing in the twenty-first century. He highlights the critical issues facing scholars and students involved in criticism and translation of marginalized texts. By returning the African knowledge system back to its roots and placing it side by side with Western paradigms, Na'Allah has produced a text that will be required reading for scholars and students of African culture and literature. It is an important contribution to scholarship in the domain of mobility of African oral tradition, and on African literary, cultural and performance discourse.
Author : Michael Kranert
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027262047
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Discourse and Political Culture written by Michael Kranert and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a new approach to comparative politico-linguistic discourse analysis. It takes a transdisciplinary stance and combines analytical tools from linguistic discourse analysis (keywords, metaphors, argumentation, genre) and political science (political culture, comparative politics, ideologies). It is comprehensive in its introduction of approaches from the German tradition of politico-linguistics. This tradition has not, thus far, been accessible to a non-German speaking readership and hence the volume adds insights into the mechanics of political discourse from a diverse set of viewpoints. The book analyses the modernisation discourses in social democratic parties in Britain and Germany between 1994 and 2003, a project that was named ‘Third Way’. It demonstrates how political language and political culture are related and how politicians will adapt a global ideology to local political circumstances in order to convince the electorate. At the same time, the book presents new insights into the German political culture and the version of Third Way discourses in the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) under the leadership of Gerhard Schröder which have played a key role in shaping current political discourse in Germany. It concludes with a model for the study of political discourse which makes the work relevant to scholars in Social Sciences and beyond.
Author : Shi-xu
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9789622098114
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (981 download)
Download or read book Discourse as Cultural Struggle written by Shi-xu and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discourse as Cultural Struggle challenges the cultural imbalance in current research traditions, and argues for a culturalist perspective in facilitating better intercultural exchange amidst accelerated processes of globalization. It is the first engagement with discourses in non-mainstream cultures. Covering a wide range of issues in public, professional, media and intercultural communication, the twelve original essays here tackle culturally pressing issues by aligning viewpoints from various geopolitical contexts. This is a thought-provoking book for scholars and researchers of language and communication studies who seek innovative approaches in their fields of interest. “Here is a book that takes diversity seriously and lifts it to the level of an epistemic paradigm. What we know is culturally constituted and discursively articulated; this relativism is converted into an absolutism due to historical power relations, and we find ourselves a curious situation in which anything that suggests diversity at fundamental levels of thought becomes a serious theoretical problem. This book addresses this absurdity, and in the context of globalization, the exercise is to be welcomed.” — Jan Blommaert, University of London “This volume opens up new and innovative perspectives for all interested in discourse analysis, cross-cultural communication, and social change. It links and relates approaches which originate more in the ‘West’ with those stemming from the ‘East’. Thus, a challenging debate is finally made possible which ultimately could and should lead to more collaborative research and, even more importantly, to better and mutual understanding.”— Ruth Wodak, Lancaster University “This fine volume enters the large field of Discourse Studies by insisting that cultural knowledge of discourses is essential, and thus necessary for our understanding of how discourse shapes human communities and relations among them. It is a rich collection of conceptual and case studies, a fine addition to our literatures, and worthy of our careful study.” — Donal Carbaugh, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Author : Deborah Hicks
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521453011
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Discourse, Learning, and Schooling written by Deborah Hicks and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-04-26 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discourse, Learning, and Schooling explores theoretical and methodological relationships between childrens' discourse - or socially used language - and their learning in educational settings. Within the fields of education and psychology, the role that discourse plays in social processes of learning and teaching has emerged as a critical, empirical and theoretical question. Authors in this volume address a range of issues, including literacy, authorship, the construction of self and classroom interaction. The chapters range from research studies of classroom discourse to essays reflecting on discourse and literacies. Collectively these chapters reflect both sociocognitive perspectives on relations between discourse, learning, and schooling, and sociocultural perspectives on discourse and literacies among diverse cultural groups.
Author : Esme Winter-Froemel
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110586371
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Cultures and Traditions of Wordplay and Wordplay Research written by Esme Winter-Froemel and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-10-22 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume focuses on realisations of wordplay in different cultures and social and historical contexts, and brings together various research traditions of approaching wordplay. Together with the volume DWP 7, it assembles selected papers presented at the interdisciplinary conference The Dynamics of Wordplay / La dynamique du jeu de mots (Trier, 2016) and stresses the inherent dynamicity of wordplay and wordplay research.
Author : Mary Hufford
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252063541
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (635 download)
Download or read book Conserving Culture written by Mary Hufford and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conserving Culture examines heritage protection in the United States and how it has been implemented in specific cases. Contributors challenge the division of heritage into nature, the built environment, and culture. They describe cultural conservation as an integrated process for resource planning and recommend supplanting the current prescriptive approach with one that is more responsive to grass-roots cultural concerns.
Author : Gísli Sigurðsson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Medieval Icelandic Saga and Oral Tradition written by Gísli Sigurðsson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work explores the role of orality in shaping and evaluating medieval Icelandic literature. Applying field studies of oral cultures in modern times to this distinguished medieval literature, G sli Sigur sson asks how it would alter our reading of medieval Icelandic sagas if it were assumed they had grown out of a tradition of oral storytelling, similar to that observed in living cultures. Sigur sson examines how orally trained lawspeakers regarded the emergent written culture, especially in light of the fact that the writing down of the law in the early twelfth century undermined their social status. Part II considers characters, genealogies, and events common to several sagas from the east of Iceland between which a written link cannot be established. Part III explores the immanent or mental map provided to the listening audience of the location of Vinland by the sagas about the Vinland voyages. Finally, this volume focuses on how accepted foundations for research on medieval texts are affected if an underlying oral tradition (of the kind we know from the modern field work) is assumed as part of their cultural background. This point is emphasized through the examination of parallel passages from two sagas and from mythological overlays in an otherwise secular text.
Author : Simon Patrick (successively, Bishop of Chichester, and of Ely.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (22 download)
Download or read book A Discourse about Tradition: Shewing what is Meant by It, and what Tradition is to be Received, and what Tradition is to be Rejected written by Simon Patrick (successively, Bishop of Chichester, and of Ely.) and published by . This book was released on 1685 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Worrall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780992946647
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (466 download)
Download or read book Radical Culture: Discourse, Resistance and Surveillance, 1790-1820 written by David Worrall and published by . This book was released on 2019-04 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: England was a spy culture in the years 1790 through 1820. Restriction, regulation and surveillance formed the dominant discursive context. Ultra-radical artisans developed a discourse based on the revolutionary ideology of Thomas Spence which proposed the corporate ownership of land and the overthrow of the Government by physical force. The Spenceans were considered the most radical of the political groups active during this period, with William Blake, Jeremy Bentham, and Percy Shelley the best known of those spied upon for suspected Speancean activities. This book outlines the battle between repressive seditious laws and the radicals whose weapon was the written and spoken word. David Worrall explores the discursive context of the campaigns against sedition in the 1790s, Colonel Despard's intended coup of 1802, the Spa Fields rising of 1816, the planned Bartholomew Fair insurrection of 1817 and the debacle of the 1820 Cato Street conspiracy. He recovers a lost artisan culture recorded by spies, moles and informers who infiltrated the organizations, debating clubs and taverns where radical speakers called for violent revolution, examining for the first time the speeches, conversations, songs, poems, pamphlets, letters, handbills, trials, interrogations, and arrests which constituted the resistance to the Government's regulation of discourse. Radical Culture features a sympathetic portrait of these revolutionaries gleaned almost entirely from the records of the government spies who helped put them in jail. Worrall brings to life the ultra-radicals, dramatizing what they said, how they reacted under extreme conditions of arrest or impending execution, and how the Government hounded them in their last hours of life.
Author : Ronald K L Collins
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000315770
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book The Death Of Discourse written by Ronald K L Collins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-12 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this innovative book, the authors persuasively argue that the First Amendment to the Constitution has risen in the late twentieth century, like an ill guided individual with knife in hand, to murder a longstanding tradition of fine and meaningful discourse in the United States. We are bombarded with the cacophony of advertisement, the luridity of pornography, and the pointlessness of prime timepoor substitutes for intelligent consideration of ideas. }In this innovative book, the authors persuasively argue that the First Amendment to the Constitution has risen in the late twentieth century, like an ill-guided individual with knife in hand, to murder a long-standing tradition of fine and meaningful discourse in the United States. What has died is the essential kind of political discourse which promotes democracy; informs citizens; enlivens debate; and carries reason, method, and purpose. Instead, we are bombarded with the cacophony of advertisement, the luridity of pornography, and the pointlessness of prime time.With satirical spirit and wityet to a very serious purpose the narrative of this lively study calls upon many of the very tricks it criticizes. The text is augmented by amusing tales, poetry, tv zaps, eyebites, and boxes of aphorisms resonating between high and low culture, between Plato and Geraldo and Madonna and Mahler to make its points, the discussion reveals how discourse in contemporary America has lost its integrity and its soul.
Author : Patrick O'Neill
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802079480
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (794 download)
Download or read book Fictions of Discourse written by Patrick O'Neill and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: O'Neill investigates the extent to which narrative discourse subverts the story it tells in foregrounding its own performance.
