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Competing Discourses

Author : David Lee
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315505312
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (155 download)

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Download or read book Competing Discourses written by David Lee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses and explores the relationship between language and world view. David Lee presents recent research in linguistics, drawing together strands from a number of different areas of the subject: the nature of linguistic and conceptual categories, the role of metaphor in the everyday use of language, gender differentiation and social variation in speech. In this study, David Lee considers a broad range of issues in the light of two contrasting views on language. For much of its history, linguistics has been dominated by a tradition which sees individual languages as uniform, homogenous systems. However, there has always been an opposite view emphasising the complex tensions and cross-currents inherent in linguistic usage. This alternative perspective is explored in the analysis of a wide range of literary and non-literary texts: casual conversations, interviews, newspaper reports, official memoranda, television commercials and extracts from novels. The author describes how both spoken and written texts can be seen as the sites where tensions between "competing discourses", stemming from different social positions and perspectives, are illustrated.

Competing Discourses

Author : Maram Epstein
Publisher : Harvard Univ Asia Center
ISBN 13 : 9780674005129
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Competing Discourses written by Maram Epstein and published by Harvard Univ Asia Center. This book was released on 2001 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the traditional Chinese symbolic vocabulary, the construction of gender was never far from debates about ritual propriety, desire, and even cosmic harmony. Competing Discourses maps the aesthetic and semantic meanings associated with gender in the Ming-Qing vernacular novel through close readings of five long narratives: Marriage Bonds to Awaken the World, Dream of the Red Chamber, A Country Codger's Words of Exposure, Flowers in the Mirror, and A Tale of Heroic Lovers. Epstein argues that the authors of these novels manipulated gendered terms to achieve structural coherence. These patterns are, however, frequently at odds with other gendered structures in the texts, and authors exploited these conflicts to discuss the problem of orthodox behavior versus the cult of feeling.

Competing Discourses

Author : Maram Epstein
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684173515
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)

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Download or read book Competing Discourses written by Maram Epstein and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-05-11 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the traditional Chinese symbolic vocabulary, the construction of gender was never far from debates about ritual propriety, desire, and even cosmic harmony. Competing Discourses maps the aesthetic and semantic meanings associated with gender in the Ming–Qing vernacular novel through close readings of five long narratives: Marriage Bonds to Awaken the World, Dream of the Red Chamber, A Country Codger’s Words of Exposure, Flowers in the Mirror, and A Tale of Heroic Lovers. Maram Epstein argues that the authors of these novels manipulated gendered terms to achieve structural coherence. These patterns are, however, frequently at odds with other gendered structures in the texts, and authors exploited these conflicts to discuss the problem of orthodox behavior versus the cult of feeling."

Competing Discourses on Japan's Nuclear Power

Author : Etsuko Kinefuchi
Publisher : Routledge Studies in Environmental Communication and Media
ISBN 13 : 9780367490492
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Competing Discourses on Japan's Nuclear Power written by Etsuko Kinefuchi and published by Routledge Studies in Environmental Communication and Media. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the discursive formation of nuclear power in Japan. It will be of interest to students and scholars of social discourse, social movements, Japanese society, cultural studies, environmental communication, media analysis, energy and sustainability, and democracy, among others.

Competing Discourses on Japan’s Nuclear Power

Author : Etsuko Kinefuchi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000488594
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Competing Discourses on Japan’s Nuclear Power written by Etsuko Kinefuchi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the discursive formation of nuclear power in Japan to provide insights into the ways this technology has been both promoted and resisted, constituting and being constituted by Japan’s sociocultural landscape. Each chapter pays close attention to a particular discursive site, including newspaper editorials, public relations campaigns, local site fights, urban antinuclear activism, and post-Fukushima pronuclear and antinuclear articulations. The book also raises the question of democracy and sustainability through the examination of nuclear power discourses. It demonstrates the power of discourse in shaping nuclear power by creating knowledge, influencing decisions, relationships, identity, and community. Readers will gain a range of insights from the book: prominent articulations on nuclear power discourse, state and corporate strategies for enticing consent for controversial facilities and technologies, the power of the media in framing public knowledge, the role of social movements and activisms in civic society, the power of community, and nuclear power as a problematic in representative democracy and sustainability. This book will appeal to students and scholars interested in social discourse, social movements, Japanese society, cultural studies, environmental communication, media analysis, energy and sustainability, and democracy, among others.

Social Impact Measurement for a Sustainable Future

Author : Richard Hazenberg
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030831523
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Social Impact Measurement for a Sustainable Future written by Richard Hazenberg and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the history of social impact measurement, offering justifications for the use of social impact measurement in modern society. It seeks to uncover the tensions inherent in social impact measurement, especially between creating and measuring social value creation. As the world becomes ever more globalised in its focus to deliver sustainable solutions to social and environmental problems, frameworks such as the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide basic structure through which social impact can be assessed and compared globally. Nevertheless, constructive critiques of such approaches are required to ensure that they do not misinform stakeholders, disenfranchise the disadvantaged and exacerbate existing social problems. In providing this overview, the book seeks to offer a critical review of the social impact measurement field centred on concepts of ‘empowerment’ and ‘social action’ (Weber, 1978), whilst also demonstrating best practice and potential pitfalls to policymakers and practitioners.

Engaging Theories in Family Communication

Author : Dawn O. Braithwaite
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351790676
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book Engaging Theories in Family Communication written by Dawn O. Braithwaite and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-13 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engaging Theories in Family Communication, Second Edition delves deeply into the key theories in family communication, focusing on theories originating both within the communication discipline and in allied disciplines. Contributors write in their specific areas of expertise, resulting in an exceptional resource for scholars and students alike, who seek to understand theories spanning myriad topics, perspectives, and approaches. Designed for advanced undergraduate and graduate students studying family communication, this text is also relevant for scholars and students of personal relationships, interpersonal communication, and family studies. This second edition includes 16 new theories and an updated study of the state of family communication. Each chapter follows a common pattern for easy comparison between theories.

Gendered Discourses

Author : J. Sunderland
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230505589
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Gendered Discourses written by J. Sunderland and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-03-26 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This advanced textbook critically reviews a range of theoretical and empirical work on gendered discourses, and explores how gendered discourses can be identified, described and named. It also examines the actual workings of discourses in terms of construction and their potential to 'damage'. For upper-level undergraduates and graduate students in discourse analysis, gender studies, social psychology and media studies.

Uncertainty, Information Management, and Disclosure Decisions

Author : Tamara Afifi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135890552
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book Uncertainty, Information Management, and Disclosure Decisions written by Tamara Afifi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume integrates scholarly work on disclosure and uncertainty with the most up-to-date, cutting edge research, theories, and applications. Uncertainty is an ever-present part of human relationships, and the ways in which people reduce and/or manage uncertainty involves regulating their communication with others through revealing and concealing information. This collection is devoted to collating knowledge in these areas, advancing theory and presenting work that is socially meaningful. This work includes contributions from renowned scholars in interpersonal uncertainty and information regulation, focusing on processes that bridge boundaries within and across disciplines, while maintaining emphasis on interpersonal contexts. Disciplines represented here include interpersonal, family, and health communication, as well as relational and social psychology. Key features of the volume include: comprehensive coverage integrating the latest research on disclosure, information seeking, and uncertainty a highly theoretical content, socially meaningful in nature (applied to real-world contexts) an interdisciplinary approach that crosses sub-fields within communication. This volume is a unique and timely resource for advanced study in interpersonal, health, or family communication. With its emphasis on theory, the book is an excellent resource for graduate courses addressing theory and/or theory construction, and it will also appeal to scholars interested in applied research.

Deconstructing Brexit Discourses

Author : Benjamin Hawkins
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351578979
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Deconstructing Brexit Discourses written by Benjamin Hawkins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book expands on and complements the burgeoning Brexit literature by placing the UK’s vote to leave the EU in its longer historical and discursive contexts. It examines the embedded Euroscepticism, which has dominated British political discourse on the European project and the role of the UK within it for at least the last three decades. Brexit was the consequence of a consistent denigration of the European integration project in the public sphere in which the terrain, and the conceptual vocabulary, of debate were set by a dominant, right-wing Eurosceptic discourse. This framed the EU as inherently heterogeneous and antagonistic to the UK. The book examines how ideas of British exceptionalism, which underpin Eurosceptic discourses, are sustained and reproduced and offers an account of their enduring, affective power amongst the British population. It is in this context that it was possible for pro-Brexit campaigners to assemble and enthuse a new coalition of voters sufficient to deliver a ‘leave’ majority on 23 June 2016. This text will be of key interest to scholars and students of British, EU and European politics, the media and press, public opinion, political behaviour and nationalism studies.

Unpacking Discourses on Chineseness

Author : Shuang Gao
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 180041384X
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Unpacking Discourses on Chineseness written by Shuang Gao and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the complexity of Chineseness in China and the Chinese diaspora. Using critical sociolinguistic and discourse analytical approaches, the chapters reveal the power dynamics and ideologies underlying the varied ways Chineseness is performed, represented and contested. Together they highlight four perspectives on Chineseness: the multiplicity of Chineseness, aspirational Chineseness, chronotopes of Chineseness and the cultural politics of Chineseness. It is argued that Chineseness is best understood as an ideologically-constructed variable, the articulation of which is deeply embedded within the dynamics of neoliberal globalization, rising nationalism, persistent Western hegemony, and shifting global geopolitics.

Discourses in Action

Author : Klaus Krippendorff
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000026078
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Discourses in Action written by Klaus Krippendorff and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-01-20 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Policy Discourses, Gender, and Education

Author : Elizabeth J. Allan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134177976
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book Policy Discourses, Gender, and Education written by Elizabeth J. Allan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite over thirty years of activism and legislation to eliminate discrimination, parity has yet to be achieved for women in academe. This book describes policy discourse analysis as a framework for considering how those involved in policy-making efforts may make use of discourses that inadvertently undermine the intended effect of the policies they set forth. Allan illustrates the methods of policy discourse analysis by describing their use in a study of twenty-one women's commission reports. In so doing, she highlights the important work of university women's commissions while uncovering policy silences and making visible the powerful discourses framing gender equity policy initiatives in higher education. Her findings reveals how dominant discourses of femininity, access, professionalism, race, and sexuality contribute to constructing women's status in complex and at times, contradictory ways. This important volume will interest researchers across a number of disciplines including policy studies, educational leadership, higher education and cultural studies of education.

Discourses of Service in Shakespeare's England

Author : D. Evett
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403978883
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Discourses of Service in Shakespeare's England written by D. Evett and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-04-15 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One way and another, nearly all of Shakespeare's countrymen and women (including the playwright himself) spent at least parts of their lives as servants of someone else. But until now that fact has gone largely unregarded. This book remedies the oversight, by showing how the ideals and practices of early modern service affect dozens of characters in almost all the plays, in ways that enrich our understanding of familiar figures like Iago and Falstaff and enhance the significance of lesser-known people and events across the canon. And it introduces an important concept, volitional primacy, into contemporary critical discourse.

Introducing Communication Research

Author : Donald Treadwell
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1071886649
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (718 download)

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Download or read book Introducing Communication Research written by Donald Treadwell and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2023-12-30 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing Communication Research: Paths of Inquiry teaches students the basics of communication research in an accessible manner by using student-focused real-world examples, engaging application exercises, and up-to-date resources. Donald Treadwell guides readers through the process of conducting communication research and presenting findings for different audiences, and the book emphasizes the Internet and social media as both topics of, and tools for, communication research. The Fifth Edition adds new pedagogical features, a new social media and big data section in each method chapter, coverage throughout of the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) and particularly in relation to reporting and presenting research, and references the latest research and data sources related to changes in communication brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Contested Sustainability Discourses in the Agrifood System

Author : Douglas H. Constance
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351664913
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Contested Sustainability Discourses in the Agrifood System written by Douglas H. Constance and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-06-27 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The industrial agrifood system is in crisis regarding its negative ecological, economic, and social externalities: it is unsustainable on all dimensions. This book documents and engages competing visions and contested discourses of agrifood sustainability. Using an incremental/reformist to transformation/radical continuum framework for alternative agrifood movements, this book identifies tensions between competing discourses that stress food sovereignty, social justice, and fair trade and those that emphasize food security, efficiency and free trade. In particular, it highlights the role that governance processes play in sustainability transitions and the ways that power and politics affect sustainability visions and discourses. The book includes chapters that review sustainability discourses at the macro and meso levels, as well as case studies from Africa, Australia, Canada, Europe, South America and the USA.

Discourse Analysis as Theory and Method

Author : Marianne W Jørgensen
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1446230635
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (462 download)

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Download or read book Discourse Analysis as Theory and Method written by Marianne W Jørgensen and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2002-10-10 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discourse Analysis as Theory and Method is a systematic introduction to discourse analysis as a body of theories and methods for social research. It brings together three central approaches, Laclau and Mouffe′s discourse theory, critical discourse analysis and discursive psychology, in order to establish a dialogue between different forms of discourse analysis often kept apart by disciplinary boundaries. The book introduces the three approaches in a clear and easily comprehensible manner, explaining the distinctive philosophical premises and theoretical perspectives of each approach as well as the methodological guidelines and tools they provide for empirical discourse analysis. The authors also demonstrate the possibilities for combining different discourse analytical and non-discourse analytical approaches in empirical study. Finally, they contextualize discourse analysis within the social constructionist debate about critical social research, rejecting the view that a critical stance is incompatible with social constructionist premises and arguing that critique must be an inherent part of social research.