The I Of Discourse

Download The I Of Discourse full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online The I Of Discourse ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

Natural Histories of Discourse

Author : Michael Silverstein
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226757706
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Natural Histories of Discourse by : Michael Silverstein

Download or read book Natural Histories of Discourse written by Michael Silverstein and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1996-07-15 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is culture simply a more or less set text we can learn to read? Since the early 1970s, the notion of culture-as-text has animated anthropologists and other analysts of culture. Michael Silverstein and Greg Urban present this stunning collection of cutting-edge ethnographies arguing that the divide between fleeting discursive practice and formed text is a constructed one, and that the constructional process reveals "culture" to those who can interpret it. Eleven original essays of "natural history" range in focus from nuptial poetry of insult among Wolof griots to case-based teaching methods in first-year law-school classrooms. Stage by stage, they give an idea of the cultural processes of "entextualization" and "contextualization" of discourse that they so richly illustrate. The contributors' varied backgrounds include anthropology, psychiatry, education, literary criticism, and law, making this collection invaluable not only to anthropologists and linguists, but to all analysts of culture.

The Grammar of Discourse

Author : Robert E. Longacre
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1489901620
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (899 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Grammar of Discourse by : Robert E. Longacre

Download or read book The Grammar of Discourse written by Robert E. Longacre and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-21 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In that The Anatomy of Speech Notions (1976) was the precursor to The Grammar of Discourse (1983), this revision embodies a third "edition" of some of the material that is found here. The original intent of the 1976 volume was to construct a hierarchical arrangement of notional categories, which find surface realization in the grammatical constructions of the various languages of the world. The idea was to marshal the categories that every analyst-regardless of theoretical bent-had to take account of as cognitive entities. The volume began with a couple of chapters on what was then popularly known as "case grammar," then expanded upward and downward to include other notional categories on other levels. Chapters on dis course, monologue, and dialogue were buried in the center of the volume. In the 1983 volume, the chapters on monologue and dialogue discourse were moved to the fore of the book and the chapters on case grammar were made less prominent; the volume was then renamed The Grammar of Discourse. The current revision features more clearly than its predecessors the intersection of discourse and pragmatic concerns with grammatical structures on various levels. It retains and expands much of the former material but includes new material reflecting current advances in such topics as salience clines for discourse, rhetorical relations, paragraph structures, transitivity, ergativity, agency hierarchy, and word order typologies.

A Discourse-centered Approach to Culture

Author : Greg Urban
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis A Discourse-centered Approach to Culture by : Greg Urban

Download or read book A Discourse-centered Approach to Culture written by Greg Urban and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Communities of Discourse

Author : Robert Wuthnow
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674045408
Total Pages : 752 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Communities of Discourse by : Robert Wuthnow

Download or read book Communities of Discourse written by Robert Wuthnow and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sociologist Robert Wuthnow notes remarkable similarities in the social conditions surrounding three of the greatest challenges to the status quo in the development of modern society--the Protestant Reformation, the Enlightenment, and the rise of Marxist socialism.

Mastering Discourse

Author : Paul A. Bové
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822312451
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (124 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Mastering Discourse by : Paul A. Bové

Download or read book Mastering Discourse written by Paul A. Bové and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mastering Discourse gathers and elaborates more than a decade of thought on the problems of the intellectual in contemporary society, by one of the most distinguished critics writing on these issues today. From Derrida and Foucault to Kristeva and Irigaray, Paul A. Bové looks at the practices of literary and cultural theory, and discusses the way theorists have produced their institutional positions and politics. Examining some of the major theories developed out of and in relation to the problems of discourse, Bové analyzes the limited successes and failures of these efforts. Mastering Discourses offers an account of why "theory" fails to deal adequately with the politics of discursive cultures and warns that unless critics take much more seriously their own disciplinary inscriptions they will always reproduce structures of power and knowledge that they claim to oppose. Moreover, Bové argues, they will not fulfill the main role of the post-enlightenment intellectual, namely: to respond effectively to the present, through new theoretical and historical formulations that address the changing world of transnational capitalism and its neoliberal ideologies.

Discourse Studies in Public Communication

Author : Eliecer Crespo-Fernández
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027260052
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Discourse Studies in Public Communication by : Eliecer Crespo-Fernández

Download or read book Discourse Studies in Public Communication written by Eliecer Crespo-Fernández and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collection of articles in Discourse Studies in Public Communication illustrates that public communication is a fascinating, evidence-based storehouse for research in discourse analysis. The contributions to this volume — in the spheres of political rhetoric, gender and sexuality, and corporate and academic communication — provide good evidence of contemporary social structure, social phenomena, and social issues. In this way, following the parameters of different analytical frameworks (critical discourse analysis, cognitive metaphor theory, appraisal theory, multimodality, etc.), the contributors address not only the linguistic aspects of texts but also, and more importantly, the cultural and cognitive dimensions of public communication in a range of real life communicative contexts and kinds of discourse. Although the volume is addressed, first and foremost, to readers with diverse interests in English linguistics, it may also prove valuable to scholars in other non-linguistic research fields like communication studies, social theory, political science, or psychology.

Discourse Across Languages and Cultures

Author : Carol Lynn Moder
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027230782
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (37 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Discourse Across Languages and Cultures by : Carol Lynn Moder

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.

Toward a Civil Discourse

Author : Sharon Crowley
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 0822973006
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Toward a Civil Discourse by : Sharon Crowley

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.

Framing in Discourse

Author : Deborah Tannen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195079965
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Framing in Discourse by : Deborah Tannen

Download or read book Framing in Discourse written by Deborah Tannen and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of framing has been pivotal in research on social interaction among anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists, and linguists. This collection shows how the discourse analysis of frames can be applied to a range of social contexts. Tannen provides a seminal theoretical framework for conceptualizing the relationship between frames and schemas as well as a methodology for the discourse analysis of framing in interaction. Each chapter makes a unique theoretical contribution to frames theory while showing how discourse analysis can elucidate the linguistic means by which framing is accomplished in a particular interactional setting. Applied to such a wide range of contexts as a medical examination, psychotic discourse, gender differences in sermon performance, boys' "sportscasting" their own play, teasing among friends, a comparison of Japanese and American discussion groups, and sociolinguistic interviews, the discourse analysis of framing emerges here as a fruitful new avenue for interaction analysis.

Discourse, Culture and Organization

Author : Tomas Marttila
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319941232
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Discourse, Culture and Organization by : Tomas Marttila

Download or read book Discourse, Culture and Organization written by Tomas Marttila and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-09-22 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume brings together leading international researchers from across the social sciences to examine the theoretical premises, methodological options and critical potentials of the Essex School of discourse analysis, founded on the work of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe. In doing so, it presents a clear picture of a poststructuralist and post-foundational research program to postdisciplinary discourse research. Divided into three parts, it begins by elaborating the ontological, theoretical and methodological foundations of the Essex School’s approach to discourse analysis. The second part provides empirical case studies showing how the Essex School research program informs and instructs empirical discourse research. In the concluding third part authors explain how and with what possible consequences this strand of discourse research contributes to social practices of critique. It offers a crucial contribution to the further methodologization and operationalization of the Essex School’s approach so as to make it a viable alternative to discourse-analytical approaches that take dominant positions in today’s ‘field of discourse studies’. The book's transdisciplinary focus will attract readers who use discourse analysis in all areas of the social sciences and humanities, particularly applied linguistics, cultural anthropology, sociology, philosophy and history.

Fictions of Discourse

Author : Patrick O'Neill
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802079480
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (794 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Fictions of Discourse by : Patrick O'Neill

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.

Native South American Discourse

Author : Joel Sherzer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110858126
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Native South American Discourse by : Joel Sherzer

Download or read book Native South American Discourse written by Joel Sherzer and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2010-10-06 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction / Joel Sherzer and Greg Urban -- Semiotic functions of macro-parallelism in the Shokleng origin myth / Greg Urban -- Oratory is spoken, myth is told, and song is sung, but they are all music to my ears / Anthony Seeger -- Three modes of Shavante vocal expressions : wailing, collective singing, and political oratory / Laura Graham -- Quoted dialogues in Kalapalo narrative discourse / Ellen Basso -- Report of a Kuna curing specialist : the poetics and rhetoric of an oral performance / Joel Sherzer -- Styles of Toba discourse / Harriet Klein -- Topic continutity and OVS order.

Discourse and Identity

Author : Bethan Benwell
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748626530
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Discourse and Identity by : Bethan Benwell

Download or read book Discourse and Identity written by Bethan Benwell and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2006-03-15 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Identity' is a central organizing feature of our social world. Across the social sciences and humanities, it is increasingly treated as something that is actively and publicly accomplished in discourse. This book defines identity in its broadest sense, in terms of how people display who they are to each other. Each chapter examines a different discursive environment in which people do 'identity work': everyday conversation, institutional settings, narrative and stories, commodified contexts, spatial locations, and virtual environments. The authors describe and demonstrate a range of discourse and interaction analytic methods as they are put to use in the study of identity, including 'performative' analyses, conversation analysis, membership categorization analysis, critical discourse analysis, narrative analysis, positioning theory, discursive psychology and politeness theory. The book aims to give readers a clear sense of the coherence (or otherwise) of these different approaches, the practical steps taken in analysis, and their situation within broader critical debates. Through the use of detailed and original 'identity' case studies in a variety of spoken and written texts in order, the book offers a practical and accessible insight into what the discursive accomplishment of identity actually looks like, and how to go about analyzing it.

The Cambridge Handbook of Discourse Studies

Author : Anna De Fina
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108560164
Total Pages : 889 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (85 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Cambridge Handbook of Discourse Studies by : Anna De Fina

Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of Discourse Studies written by Anna De Fina and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 889 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aimed at equipping a new generation of scholars and students with the essential tools for analyzing discourse, this handbook provides an overview of key research fields and an introduction to the various methodologies, concepts and areas of investigation in discourse.

Cultural Studies and Discourse Analysis

Author : Chris Barker
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780761963844
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (638 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Cultural Studies and Discourse Analysis by : Chris Barker

Download or read book Cultural Studies and Discourse Analysis written by Chris Barker and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2001-08-09 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel and important book brings together insights from cultural studies and critical discourse analysis to examine the fruitful links between the two. Cultural Studies and Discourse Analysis shows that critical discourse analysis is able to provide the analytic context, skills and tools by which we can study how language constructs, constitutes and shapes the social world and demonstrates in detail how the methodological approach of critical discourse analysis can enhance cultural studies. In a richly argued discussion, the authors show how marrying the methodology of critical discourse analysis with cultural studies enlarges our understanding of gender and ethnicity.

(In)coherence of Discourse

Author : Maxime Amblard
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030714349
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis (In)coherence of Discourse by : Maxime Amblard

Download or read book (In)coherence of Discourse written by Maxime Amblard and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-06-12 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This present book explores recent advances in modeling discourse processes, in particular, new approaches aimed at understanding pathological language behavior specific to schizophrenia. The contributors examine the modeling paradigm of formal semantics, which falls within the scope of both linguistics and logic while providing overlapping links with other fields such as philosophy of language and cognitive psychology. This book is based on results presented during the series of workshops on (In)Coherence and Discourse organized by SLAM (Schizophrenia and Language: Analysis and Modeling), a project developed to systemize the study of pathological language processing by taking an overarching interdisciplinary approach combining psychology, linguistics, computer science and philosophy. The principle focus is on conversations produced by people with psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia and autism. The contributions come from young and experienced researchers, and invited speakers. The book appeals to likeminded students and researchers.

The Power of Discourse

Author : Moira Chimombo
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136496955
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (364 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Power of Discourse by : Moira Chimombo

Download or read book The Power of Discourse written by Moira Chimombo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-03 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.