Discourses Of Men S Suicide Notes

Author : Dariusz Galasinski
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781350005747

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Discourses of Men’s Suicide Notes by Dariusz Galasinski Pdf

Deaths by suicide are high: every 40 seconds, someone in the world chooses to end their life. Despite acknowledgement that suicide notes are social texts, there has been no book which analyzes suicide notes as discursive texts and no attempt at a qualitative discourse analysis of them. Discourses of Men's Suicide Notes redresses this gap in the literature. Focussing on men and masculinity and anchored in qualitative discourse analysis, Dariusz Galasinski responds to the need for a more thorough understanding of suicidal behaviour. Culturally, men have been posited to be 'masters of the universe' and yet some choose to end their lives. This book takes a qualitative approach to data gathered from the Polish Corpus of Suicide Notes, a unique repository of over 600 suicide notes, to explore discourse from and about men at the most traumatic juncture of their lives. Discussing how men construct suicide notes and the ways in which they position their relationships and identities within them, Discourses of Men's Suicide Notes seeks to understand what these notes mean and what significance and power they are invested with.

Author : Dariusz Galasiński
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Discourse analysis
ISBN : 1350005762

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Discourses of Men's Suicide Notes by Dariusz Galasiński Pdf

Introduction -- Gift of suicide: stories of ultimate solution -- Ambiguities of suicide: stories of reasons -- Suicide: the act outside discourse -- Men who kill themselves: identities in suicide notes -- The note: exercise in timing -- See you later: non-finality of suicide -- Instructions: narratives of continuing control -- Conclusions: dilemmas of suicide

Author : Gavin Brookes,Małgorzata Chałupnik
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783031384073

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Masculinities and Discourses of Men's Health by Gavin Brookes,Małgorzata Chałupnik Pdf

This book brings together a collection of case studies that explore the relationship between health and masculinity. It covers various topics related to health, such as mental health, sexual health, eating disorders and coronavirus, and offers health-based perspectives on issues such as migration and gender identity, as these relate to masculinities. In exploring these themes, this book addresses a wide range of communicative contexts, including online forums, interviews, advertising, sex education materials, migrant integration classes, and suicide notes. This book will appeal to linguists interested in health and gender (particularly masculinities), as well as scholars in fields such as psychology, media studies, cultural studies, and other humanities and social science disciplines with a focus on discourse.

Author : Michael Fisch
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-19
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780226558691

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An Anthropology of the Machine by Michael Fisch Pdf

“An astute account of [Tokyo’s] commuter train network . . . and an intellectually stimulating invitation to rethink the interaction between humans and machines.” —Japan Forum With its infamously packed cars and disciplined commuters, Tokyo’s commuter train network is one of the most complex technical infrastructures on Earth. In An Anthropology of the Machine, Michael Fisch provides a nuanced perspective on how Tokyo’s commuter train network embodies the lived realities of technology in our modern world. Drawing on his fine-grained knowledge of transportation, work, and everyday life in Tokyo, Fisch shows how fitting into a system that operates on the extreme edge of sustainability can take a physical and emotional toll on a community while also creating a collective way of life—one with unique limitations and possibilities. An Anthropology of the Machine is a creative ethnographic study of the culture, history, and experience of commuting in Tokyo. At the same time, it is a theoretically ambitious attempt to think through our very relationship with technology and our possible ecological futures. Fisch provides an unblinking glimpse into what it might be like to inhabit a future in which more and more of our infrastructure—and the planet itself—will have to operate beyond capacity to accommodate our ever-growing population. “Not a ‘rage against the machine’ but an urge to find new ways of coexisting with technology.” —Contemporary Japan “An extraordinary study.” —Ethnos “A fascinating in-depth account of the innovations, inventions, sacrifices, and creativity required to ensure Tokyo’s millions of commuters keep rolling. It also provides much food for thought as our transportation systems become increasingly reliant on automated technology.” —Pacific Affairs

Author : David B. Downing,Susan Bazargan
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1991-09-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438401492

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Image and Ideology in Modern/Postmodern Discourse by David B. Downing,Susan Bazargan Pdf

This book addresses the function and status of the visual and verbal image as it relates to social, political, and ideological issues. The authors first articulate some of the lost connections between image and ideology, then locate their argument within the modernist/postmodernist debates. The book addresses the multiple, trans-disciplinary problems arising from the ways cultures, authors, and texts mobilize particular images in order to confront, conceal, work through, or resolve contradictory ideological conditions.

Author : Neil Postman
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : PSU:000012455942

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Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman Pdf

Examines the effects of television culture on how we conduct our public affairs and how "entertainment values" corrupt the way we think.

Author : George Bull
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1827
Category : Theology
ISBN : HARVARD:AH4F6J

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The Works of George Bull: Several discourses by George Bull Pdf

Author : John Richardson,Michal Krzyzanowski,David Machin,Ruth Wodak
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134918638

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Advances in Critical Discourse Studies by John Richardson,Michal Krzyzanowski,David Machin,Ruth Wodak Pdf

Advances in Critical Discourse Studies collects ground-breaking scholarship and cutting-edge research which reflects significant shifts in Critical Discourse Studies, exploring the field from theoretical, analytic and methodological perspectives. Innovative chapters analyse a diverse range of discourses including journalism, mass media, political communication, policy documents, interviews, photographic archive and official bodies. The chapters in Part I explore Critical Discourse Studies from the point of view of history, memory, identity politics, and discourse, analysing salient examples of how memory and recollection of the past shapes understandings and narratives of the present, and visions of future societies. Part II explores problem-oriented analysis in Critical Discourse Studies and examines the roles that discourse plays in the formation, perpetuation and transformation of class relations. Finally, Part III explores a methodological issue by looking at the benefits of reinforcing fieldwork and ethnographic analysis in Critical Discourse Studies. The case studies throughout the book demonstrate that analytic research contributes significantly to the in-depth and in-situ research of a variety of increasingly complex social, historical, political and economic contexts. This book was originally published as three special issues of the journal Critical Discourse Studies.

Author : Alexander Ziem
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027269645

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Frames of Understanding in Text and Discourse by Alexander Ziem Pdf

How do words mean? What is the nature of meaning? How can we grasp a word’s meaning? The frame-semantic approach developed in this book offers some well-founded answers to such long-standing, but still controversial issues. Following Charles Fillmore’s definition of frames as both organizers of experience and tools for understanding, the monograph attempts to examine one of the most important concepts of Cognitive Linguistics in more detail. The point of departure is Fillmore’s conception of “frames of understanding” – an approach to (cognitive) semantics that Fillmore developed from 1975 to 1985. The envisaged Understanding Semantics (“U-Semantics”) is a semantic theory sui generis whose significance for linguistic research cannot be overestimated. In addition to its crucial role in the development of the theoretical foundations of U-semantics, corpus-based frame semantics can be applied fruitfully in the investigation of knowledge-building processes in text and discourse.

Author : Antonio Fruttaldo
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443893404

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News Discourse and Digital Currents by Antonio Fruttaldo Pdf

In recent years, journalistic practices have undergone a radical change due to the increasing pressure of new digital media on the professional practice. The ever-growing development of new technologies and the ceaseless fluctuation of social practices have challenged some of the traditional genres found in these professional contexts. On the basis of these premises, this book investigates a particular genre found in the context of TV newscasts. The genre under investigation is that of news tickers (or crawlers), that is, the graphic elements that scroll at the bottom of the screen during newscasts. The book introduces readers to this under-researched genre through a year-long collection of the news tickers displayed on BBC World News. Thanks to a corpus-based genre analysis, the generic status of news tickers is better defined by highlighting the presence of given strategies of marketization. Additionally, this volume investigates if news tickers can be seen as a mixed (sub-)genre that interdiscursively combines traditional linguistic elements of headlines and lead paragraphs to achieve, from a (Critical) Genre Analysis point of view, a specific private intention in the context of the BBC.

Author : Vivienne Brown
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134865451

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Adam Smith's Discourse by Vivienne Brown Pdf

Adam Smith's name has become synonymous with free market economics; The Wealth of Nations is taken as the definitive account of the benefits of free competitive markets. Yet recent scholarship has challenged this view and given us a richer, more nuanced figure, steeped in the intricacies of enlightenment social and political philosophy. Adam Smith's Discourse both develops this literature and gives it a radical new extension by taking into account recent debates in literary theory.

Author : John Menet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Catechisms, English
ISBN : OXFORD:600097506

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Short Notes for Lessons on the Church Catechism by John Menet Pdf

Author : William SMITH (Religious Controversialist, of Glasgow.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1826
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0023482724

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A Letter ... to Rabbi T. Goodman ... Containing remarks upon a discourse ... entitled: "The Faith of Israel." With observations from the Old and New Testaments showing, that the kingdom of ... Christ is not of this world, &c. To which is added, some observations upon the doctrine of the Holy Ghost, etc by William SMITH (Religious Controversialist, of Glasgow.) Pdf

Author : Jeremy Taylor,Reginald Heber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1822
Category : Theology
ISBN : HARVARD:32044069689313

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A dissuasive from popery ; Letters ; A discourse of confirmation ; A discourse of friendship ; and Ductor dubitantium ; or, The rule of conscience by Jeremy Taylor,Reginald Heber Pdf

Author : Thomas BENNET (D.D.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1709
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0024282951

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Some Reflections on Mr. Bennet's Discourse of Joint-Prayer. In a letter to a friend, from a Presbyter of the Church of England by Thomas BENNET (D.D.) Pdf