Empirical Studies Of The Construction Of Discourse

Author : Óscar Loureda,Inés Recio Fernández,Laura Nadal,Adriana Cruz
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027262264

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Empirical Studies of the Construction of Discourse by Óscar Loureda,Inés Recio Fernández,Laura Nadal,Adriana Cruz Pdf

This volume assembles eleven articles addressing current concerns in discourse studies from an empirical perspective. Engaging with highly topical issues, they indicate the potential of an approach to the construction of discourse via corpus-based analysis, experimentation, or combined methodologies. The subject matters of the contributions, delivered by renowned scholars and dealing with either one or several languages, range from mechanisms through which information structure, connection and discourse organization are realized, to prosody as a determinant of hierarchy and specific functions of discourse markers, as well as innovative tools for visualizing discourse structure. The resulting volume addresses scholars working in a variety of topics, who either wish to incorporate empirical methods to their research or whose work is already empirically oriented and wish to gain insight into empirical evidence on state-of-the-art discursive phenomena.

Author : Nelson Phillips,Cynthia Hardy
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2002-06-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780761923626

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Discourse Analysis by Nelson Phillips,Cynthia Hardy Pdf

'Discourse Analysis: Investigating Processes of Social Construction' reflects on the practice of analyzing discourse and the potential for revealing the processes of social construction that constitute social and organizational life.

Author : Antonio Bova,Carlo Galimberti,Lise Haddouk,Francesco Arcidiacono
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889718030

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Discourse, Conversation and Argumentation: Theoretical Perspectives and Innovative Empirical Studies - Volume I by Antonio Bova,Carlo Galimberti,Lise Haddouk,Francesco Arcidiacono Pdf

Author : Ronald Geluykens
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027226112

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From Discourse Process to Grammatical Construction by Ronald Geluykens Pdf

This study deals with interactional processes in conversational discourse, and the way they may get 'syntacticized' into grammatical constructions. It investigates the link between discourse function and syntactic form, and the ways in which grammatical form is a reflection on communicative function, through examining the communicative functions of Left-Dislocation in English. The investigation is corpus-based, and focuses on spontaneous conversation, but other discourse types are also taken into account. The overall perspective is resolutely empirical, and preconceptions about the possible functions of Left-Dislocation are avoided. Contents 1. Theoretical preliminaries; 2. Referent-introduction (1): interaction; 3. Referent-introduction (2): recoverability; 4. Referent-introduction (3): topicality; 5. Other functions of LD; 6. Prosodic aspects of LD; 7. LD in other discourse types; 8. A broader perspecitive; 9. General conclusion; Notes, Appendices, References, Subject and author indices.

Author : Stephanie Taylor
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-20
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781849669054

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What is Discourse Analysis? by Stephanie Taylor Pdf

What is Discourse Analysis? is an accessible introduction to an empirical research approach which is widely used in the social sciences and related disciplines. This book explores the idea of how meaning is socially constructed and how 'talk' and text can be interpreted. The challenges of discourse analysis are outlined as well as helpful ways to approach them - from finding the right starting point, processing and interpreting data through to building an argument. Discourse analysts work with language data, including talk, documents and broadcast material. Researchers in different traditions study interactions and social practices, meaning-making and larger meaning systems, and contests and conflicts around collective identities, social norms and subjectification. What is Discourse Analysis? addresses new researchers and other academics interested in language and its associated practices. The book outlines the history of discourse analysis, its key concepts and theorists and its uses and challenges. Discussions of published studies illustrate the use of the approach to investigate a range of research topics, such as gender, health and national identities. The book also addresses the practical aspects of discourse analysis, providing clear guidance on data collection and data processing, including transcription and selection. Covering important topics, What is Discourse Analysis? draws from recent articles to show how discourse analysis works in action. Common questions about discourse analysis are presented in a lively and accessible Q&A format. This book will be an essential resource for all researchers working with discourse analysis.

Author : Tomas Marttila
Publisher : Springer
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781137538406

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Post-Foundational Discourse Analysis by Tomas Marttila Pdf

This book adds the missing link between post-foundational discourse theory and the methods of empirical research, and in doing so it develops a post-foundational discourse analysis research program. The book offers a structure of the research program, and explores the methodologization of other discourse analytical approaches.

Author : Anna De Fina,Deborah Schiffrin,Michael Bamberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006-06-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107320604

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Discourse and Identity by Anna De Fina,Deborah Schiffrin,Michael Bamberg Pdf

The relationship between language, discourse and identity has always been a major area of sociolinguistic investigation. In more recent times, the field has been revolutionized as previous models - which assumed our identities to be based on stable relationships between linguistic and social variables - have been challenged by pioneering new approaches to the topic. This volume brings together a team of leading experts to explore discourse in a range of social contexts. By applying a variety of analytical tools and concepts, the contributors show how we build images of ourselves through language, how society moulds us into different categories, and how we negotiate our membership of those categories. Drawing on numerous interactional settings (the workplace; medical interviews; education), in a variety of genres (narrative; conversation; interviews), and amongst different communities (immigrants; patients; adolescents; teachers), this revealing volume sheds light on how our social practices can help to shape our identities.

Author : János S. Petöfi
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110862126

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Text and Discourse Constitution by János S. Petöfi Pdf

Text and Discourse Constitution: Empirical Aspects, Theoretical Approaches (Research in Text Theory.

Author : G. Weiss,R. Wodak
Publisher : Springer
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007-10-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780230288423

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Critical Discourse Analysis by G. Weiss,R. Wodak Pdf

Can discourse analysis techniques adequately deal with complex social phenomena? What does 'interdisciplinarity' mean for theory building and the practise of empirical research? This original volume debates critical theory and discourse analysis, focussing on the extent to which CDA can draw on a range of disciplines in the social sciences.

Author : Tomas Marttila
Publisher : Springer
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783319941233

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Discourse, Culture and Organization by Tomas Marttila Pdf

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.

Author : Reiner Keller,Anna-Katharina Hornidge,Wolf J Schünemann
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 45,9 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 : María de los Ángeles Gómez González,J. Lachlan Mackenzie
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027263568

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The Construction of Discourse as Verbal Interaction by María de los Ángeles Gómez González,J. Lachlan Mackenzie Pdf

This edited volume showcases new work on discourse analysis by big names in the field and promising early-career researchers. Arising from the latest in the series of IWoDA workshops in Santiago de Compostela, it provides novel insights into both the explicit and the implicit characteristics of discourse as used in verbal interaction. Discourse markers, as their name indicates, are among the explicit signals of coherence, while discourse relations may be either explicit or implicit. Similarly, the discourse used for purposes of evaluation, stance-taking and interpersonal engagement is either overt or covert, as is also true of the expression of emotions and empathy. This, in general terms, is the challenging terrain into which the contributors to this volume have ventured. The book combines theoretical issues with a practical orientation, comparing languages, analysing different registers, studying the openings of Skype conversations, and much more besides; it will prove highly relevant for postgraduate and advanced practitioners of discourse analysis, interaction studies, semantics and pragmatics.

Author : Amy M. Lindstrom
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781793604620

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Unexpressed Subjects in English by Amy M. Lindstrom Pdf

Unexpressed Subjects in English: An Empirical Analysis of Narrative and Conversational Discourse challenges previous assumptions of what is grammatically possible in English through an examination of contexts in which speakers omit subjects, demonstrating how language structure is influenced by communicative needs. Through corpus-based analysis of both interactive conversations and monologic narratives, Amy M. Lindstrom reveals how the discourse/pragmatic factors of accessibility and chronological ordering, the prosodic effect of linking, and the mechanical effect of priming intersect to provide a rigorous account of subject (un)expression in spoken American English. Higher degrees of linking, cohesion, and connection lead to more unexpressed subjects. Lindstrom also analyzes frequent constructions with unexpressed subjects vis-à-vis paths of grammaticalization. The author presents a measurement of discourse connectedness that shows how the intersection of prosody and pragmatics illustrates the powerful effect of spontaneous discourse in shaping grammar. This study adds to our understanding of language and cognition by contributing to our knowledge of the conceptualization, categorization, and representation of experience and memory.

Author : Jonathan Potter
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1996-10-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0803984111

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Representing Reality by Jonathan Potter Pdf

`This is an admirable book which can be recommended to students with confidence, and is likely also to become an indispensable source of reference for those researching fact construction' - Discourse & SocietyHow is reality manufactured? The idea of social construction has become a commonplace of much social research, yet precisely what is constructed, and how, and even what constructionism means, is often unclear or taken for granted. In this major work, Jonathan Potter offers a fascinating tour of the central themes raised by these questions.Representing Reality overviews the different traditions in constructionist thought. Points are illustrated throughout with varied and engaging examples taken from newspaper stories, relationship counselling sessions, accounts of the paranormal, social workers' assessments of violent parents, informal talk between programme makers, political arguments and everyday conversations. Ranging across the social and human sciences, this book provides a lucid introduction to several key strands of work that have overturned the way we think about facts and descriptions, including: the sociology of scientific knowledge; conversation analysis and ethnomethodology; and semiotics, post-structuralism and postmodernism.

Author : David Howarth
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2000-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780335231836

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Discourse by David Howarth Pdf

* What do we mean by discourse? * What are the different conceptions of discourse and methods of discourse analysis in the contemporary social sciences? * How can this concept help to clarify key theoretical problems and illuminate empirical cases? The concept of discourse provokes considerable debate and is understood in a variety of ways in the contemporary social sciences. This text presents a comprehensive overview of the different conceptions and methods of discourse analysis, while setting out the traditions of thinking in which these conceptions have emerged. It surveys structuralist, post-structuralist and post-Marxist theory, and the author sets out a fresh approach to discourse analysis, drawing principally on the writings of Saussure, Levi-Strauss, Gramsci, Althusser, Foucault, Derrida, Laclau and Mouffe. He evaluates a number of pertinent criticisms of this approach, and explores ways in which discourse analysis can assist our understanding of identity formation, hegemony, and the relationship between structure and agency. This concise and engaging text provides a stimulating introduction to the concept of discourse for students and researchers across the social sciences.