Discourses On Society

Author : Peter Wagner,Björn Wittrock,Richard P. Whitley
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007-07-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780585291741

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Discourses on Society by Peter Wagner,Björn Wittrock,Richard P. Whitley Pdf

This book, which represents probably the most comprehensive discussion of the emergence of modem social science yet produced, is of far more than merely historical interest. The contributors set out to rewrite the history of the social sciences and to show the limitations of conventional conceptions of their development. These tasks they accomplish with great success and much distinction. Yet in so doing they contribute in a direct way to our understanding of the relation between social analysis and the nature of human societies today. The brilliant and distinctive perspective of the papers in this collection is to demonstrate, with many specific examples, that social science and modem institutions have helped shape each other in mutual interplay. Modem systems are in some part con stituted through the reflexive incorporation of developing social science knowledge; on the other hand, the social sciences organise themselves in terms of a continuing reflection upon the evolution of those systems. Such a perspective, as Wagner and Wittrock in particular make clear, does not in any way either impugn the status of knowledge claims made within social science or destroy the independent reality of social institutions. The book questions the notion that the institutionalising of the social sciences can be understood as a process of their increasing autonomy from extemal social connections. 'Autonomy' forms a mode of legitima tion and a basis of power rather than a distinctive phenomenon as such.

Author : James Paul Gee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351580878

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Introducing Discourse Analysis by James Paul Gee Pdf

Introducing Discourse Analysis: From Grammar to Society is a concise and accessible introduction by bestselling author, James Paul Gee, to the fundamental ideas behind different specific approaches to discourse analysis, or the analysis of language in use. The book stresses how grammar sets up choices for speakers and writers to make, choices which express, not unvarnished truth, but perspectives or viewpoints on reality. In turn, these perspectives are the material from which social interactions, social relations, identity, and politics make and remake society and culture. The book also offers an approach to how discourse analysis can contribute to lessening the ideological divides and echo chambers that so bedevil our world today. Organized in a user-friendly way with short numbered sections and recommended readings, Introducing Discourse Analysis is an essential primer for all students of discourse analysis within linguistics, education, communication studies, and related areas.

Author : Sir William Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1824
Category : Asia
ISBN : UOM:39015008280755

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Discourses Delivered Before the Asiatic Society by Sir William Jones Pdf

Author : Hazel R. Wright,Marianne Høyen
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781783748549

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Discourses We Live By: Narratives of Educational and Social Endeavour by Hazel R. Wright,Marianne Høyen Pdf

What are the influences that govern how people view their worlds? What are the embedded values and practices that underpin the ways people think and act? Discourses We Live By approaches these questions through narrative research, in a process that uses words, images, activities or artefacts to ask people – either individually or collectively within social groupings – to examine, discuss, portray or otherwise make public their place in the world, their sense of belonging to (and identity within) the physical and cultural space they inhabit. This book is a rich and multifaceted collection of twenty-eight chapters that use varied lenses to examine the discourses that shape people’s lives. The contributors are themselves from many backgrounds – different academic disciplines within the humanities and social sciences, diverse professional practices and a range of countries and cultures. They represent a broad spectrum of age, status and outlook, and variously apply their research methods – but share a common interest in people, their lives, thoughts and actions. Gathering such eclectic experiences as those of student-teachers in Kenya, a released prisoner in Denmark, academics in Colombia, a group of migrants learning English, and gambling addiction support-workers in Italy, alongside more mainstream educational themes, the book presents a fascinating array of insights. Discourses We Live By will be essential reading for adult educators and practitioners, those involved with educational and professional practice, narrative researchers, and many sociologists. It will appeal to all who want to know how narratives shape the way we live and the way we talk about our lives.

Author : Reiner Keller,Anna-Katharina Hornidge,Wolf J Schünemann
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351690614

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The Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse by Reiner Keller,Anna-Katharina Hornidge,Wolf J Schünemann Pdf

The Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse (SKAD) has reoriented research into social forms, structuration and processes of meaning construction and reality formation; doing so by linking social constructivist and pragmatist approaches with post-structuralist thinking in order to study discourses and create epistemological space for analysing processes of world-making in culturally diverse environments. SKAD is anchored in interpretive traditions of inquiry and allows for broadening – and possibly overcoming – of the epistemological biases and restrictions still common in theories and approaches of Western- and Northern-centric social sciences. An innovative volume, this book is exactly attentive to these empirically based, globally diverse further developments of approach, with a clear focus on the methodology and its implementation. Thus, The Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse presents itself as a research program and locates the approach within the context of interpretive social sciences, followed by eleven chapters on different cases from around the world that highlight certain theoretical questions and methodological challenges. Presenting outstanding applications of the Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse across a wide variety of substantive projects and regional contexts, this text will appeal to postgraduate students and researchers interested in fields such as Discourse Studies, Sociology, Cultural Studies and Qualitative Methodology and Methods.

Author : Eliecer Crespo-Fernández
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027260055

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Discourse Studies in Public Communication by Eliecer Crespo-Fernández Pdf

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.

Author : Teun A Van Dijk,Teun A. van Dijk
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1997-05-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0803978472

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Discourse as Social Interaction by Teun A Van Dijk,Teun A. van Dijk Pdf

The second volume of this introduction to discourse studies focuses on the fundamental interactional, social, political and cultural functions of text and talk, and shows that discourse is not merely form and meaning, but also action.

Author : Frances Henry,Carol Tator
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0802084575

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Discourses of Domination by Frances Henry,Carol Tator Pdf

Applying critical discourse analysis as their principal methodology, Frances Henry and Carol Tator investigate the way in which the media produce, reproduce, and disseminate racist thinking through language and discourse.

Author : Ruth Levitas
Publisher : Springer
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2005-04-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230511552

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The Inclusive Society? by Ruth Levitas Pdf

The idea of social exclusion is part of the new political language. When Labour came into government in 1997, it launched the Social Exclusion Unit to pursue this central theme. But what exactly does social inclusion mean? This revised and updated edition of The Inclusive Society? identifies three competing meanings of the term in contemporary British Politics, emphasising poverty, employment and morality. Ruth Levitas argues that there has been a shift away from understanding social exclusion as primarily a problem of poverty, towards questions of social integration through paid work and moral regulation.

Author : Urszula Okulska,Piotr Cap
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027206275

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Perspectives in Politics and Discourse by Urszula Okulska,Piotr Cap Pdf

The volume explores the vast and heterogeneous territory of Political Linguistics, structuring and developing its concepts, themes and methodologies into combined and coherent Analysis of Political Discourse (APD). Dealing with an extensive and representative variety of topics and domains - political rhetoric, mediatized communication, ideology, politics of language choice, etc. - it offers uniquely systematic, theoretically grounded insights in how language is used to perform power-enforcing/imbuing practices in social interaction, and how it is deployed for communicating decisions concerning language itself. The twenty chapters in the volume, written by specialists in political linguistics, (critical) discourse analysis, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, and social psychology, address the diversity of political discourse to propose novel perspectives from which common analytic procedures can be drawn and followed. The volume is thus an essential resource for anyone looking for a coherent research agenda in explorations of political discourse as a point of reference for their own academic activities, both scholarly and didactic. "Politics in today's world consists of almost continuous interconnected talking and writing in a constantly expanding media universe. This comprehensive collection of papers edited by Urszula Okulska and Piotr Cap helps readers to get a hold on the flow of discourse that constitutes politics today. Indispensible for anyone seeking perspectives for understanding the language of politics and research methods for probing beyond the surface."

Author : John M. Najemy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139827867

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The Cambridge Companion to Machiavelli by John M. Najemy Pdf

Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527) is the most famous and controversial figure in the history of political thought and one of the iconic names of the Renaissance. The Cambridge Companion to Machiavelli brings together sixteen original essays by leading experts, covering his life, his career in Florentine government, his reaction to the dramatic changes that affected Florence and Italy in his lifetime, and the most prominent themes of his thought, including the founding, evolution, and corruption of republics and principalities, class conflict, liberty, arms, religion, ethics, rhetoric, gender, and the Renaissance dialogue with antiquity. In his own time Machiavelli was recognized as an original thinker who provocatively challenged conventional wisdom. With penetrating analyses of The Prince, Discourses on Livy, Art of War, Florentine Histories, and his plays and poetry, this book offers a vivid portrait of this extraordinary thinker as well as assessments of his place in Western thought since the Renaissance.

Author : Mathijs van Leeuwen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317083627

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Partners in Peace by Mathijs van Leeuwen Pdf

How do international organizations support local peacebuilding? Do they really understand conflict? Partners in Peace challenges the global perceptions and assumptions of the roles played by civil society in peacebuilding and offers a radically new perspective on how international organizations can support such efforts. Framing the debate using case studies from Africa and Central America, the author examines different meanings of peacebuilding, the practices and politics of interpreting conflict and how planned interventions work out. Comparing original views with contemporary perceptions of non-state actors, Partners in Peace includes many recommendations for NGOs involved in peacebuilding and constructs a new understanding on how these possible solutions relate to politics and practices on the ground. Concise in both theoretical and empirical analysis, this book is an important contribution to our understanding of civil society's role in building sustainable peace.

Author : Adam Hodges,Chad Nilep
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007-04-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027292681

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Discourse, War and Terrorism by Adam Hodges,Chad Nilep Pdf

Discourse since September 11, 2001 has constrained and shaped public discussion and debate surrounding terrorism worldwide. Social actors in the Americas, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and elsewhere employ the language of the “war on terror” to explain, react to, justify and understand a broad range of political, economic and social phenomena. Discourse, War and Terrorism explores the discursive production of identities, the shaping of ideologies, and the formation of collective understandings in response to 9/11 in the United States and around the world. At issue are how enemies are defined and identified, how political leaders and citizens react, and how members of societies understand their position in the world in relation to terrorism. Contributors to this volume represent diverse sub-fields involved in the critical study of language, including perspectives from sociocultural linguistics, communication, media, cultural and political studies.

Author : Christian W. Chun
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317614722

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The Discourses of Capitalism by Christian W. Chun Pdf

Since the global economic crisis of 2007–2008, ‘capitalism’ has been the topic of widespread general discussion in both mainstream and social media. In this book, Christian W. Chun examines the discourses of capitalism taken up by people in their responses to a street art installation created by Steve Lambert, entitled Capitalism Works for Me! In doing so, he considers several key questions, including: How do everyday people view and make sense of capitalism and its role in their work and personal lives? What are the discourses they use in their common-sense understandings of the economy to defend or reject capitalism as a system? Chun looks at how dominant discourses in social circulation operate to co-construct and support capitalism, and the accompanying counter-discourses that critique it. This is key reading for advanced students of discourse analysis, language and globalization/politics, media/communication studies, and related areas. A video lecture by the author can be accessed via the Routledge website (www.routledge.com/9781138807105) and the Routledge Language and Communication Portal (www.routledgetextbooks.com/textbooks/languageandcommunication).

Author : Orville Dewey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1838
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BCUL:VD2179226

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Moral Views of Commerce, Society and Politics in 12 Discourses by Orville Dewey Pdf