Discourse In Late Modernity

Author : Lilie Chouliaraki
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Discourse in Late Modernity written by Lilie Chouliaraki and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discourse in Late Modernity sets out to show that critical discourse analysis is strongly positioned to address empirical research and theory-building across the social sciences, particularly research and theory on the semiotic/linguistic aspects of the social world. It situates critical discourse analysis as a form of critical social research in relation to diverse theories from the philosophy of science to social theory and from political science to sociology and linguistics. First, the authors clarify the ontological and epistemological assumptions of critical discourse analysis - its view of what the social world consists of and how to study it - and, in so doing, point to the connections between critical discourse analysis and critical social scientific research more generally. Secondly, they relate critical discourse analysis to social theory, by creating a research agenda in contemporary social life on the basis of narratives of late modernity, particularly those of Giddens, Habermas, and Harvey as well as feminist and postmodernist approaches. Thirdly, they show the relevance of sociological work in the analysis of discursive aspects of social life, drawing on the work of Bourdieu and Bernstein to theorise the dialectic of social reproduction and change, and on post-structuralist, post-colonial and feminist work to theorise the dialectic of complexity and homogenisation in contemporary societies. Finally, they discuss the relationship between systemic-functional linguistics and critical discourse analysis, showing how the analytical strength of each can benefit from the other.* Sets out a new and distinctive theoretical grounding and research agenda for critical discourse analysis* Interdisciplinary in scope* Draws on a broad range of theories and approaches

Author : Ben Rampton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521812634
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language in Late Modernity written by Ben Rampton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-02-23 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a sociolinguistic account of classroom interaction, based on research in an inner-city high school.

Author : Ernst Behler
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295801530
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Irony and the Discourse of Modernity written by Ernst Behler and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behler discusses the current state of thought on modernity and postmodernity, detailing the intellectual problems to be faced and examining the positions of such central figures in the debate as Lyotard, Habermas, Rorty, and Derrida. He finds that beyond the “limits of communication,” further discussion must be carried out through irony. The historical rise of the concept of modernity is examined through discussions of the querelle des anciens et des modernes as a break with classical tradition, and on the theoretical writings of de Stael, the English romantics, and the great German romantics Schlegel, Hegel, and Nietzsche. The growth of the concept of irony from a formal rhetorical term to a mode of indirectness that comes to characterize thought and discourse generally is then examined from Plato and Socrates to Nietzsche, who avoided the term “irony” but used it in his cetnral concept of the mask.

Author : Piet Strydom
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780853238058
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Discourse and Knowledge written by Piet Strydom and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author makes use of epistemological, theoretical and methodological advances. He explores constructivism, synthesizes Habermas and Foucault to arrive at a new theory of discourse, and applies a finely elaborated frame and discourse analysis.

Author : Maurizio Passerin d'Entrèves
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262540803
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Habermas and the Unfinished Project of Modernity written by Maurizio Passerin d'Entrèves and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of ten essays offers the first systematic assessment of JürgenHabermas's Philosophical Discourse of Modernity, a book that defended the rational potential of themodern age against the depiction of modernity as a spent epoch. The essays (of which four are newlycommissioned, five were published in the journal Praxis International, and one -- by Habermas --first appeared in translation in New Critique) are divided into two sections: Critical Rejoindersand Thematic Reformulations.An opening essay by d'Entrèves sets out the main issues and orients thedebate between Habermas and the postmodernists by identifying two different senses ofresponsibility: a responsibility to act versus a responsibility to otherness (an openness todifference, dissonance, and ambiguity). These are linked with two alternative understandings of theprimary function of language: action-orienting versus world-disclosing. This is a fruitful way oflooking at the issues that Habermas has raised in his attempt to resurrect and complete the projectof Enlightenment.Habermas's essay discusses the main themes of his book in the context of a criticalengagement with neoconservative cultural and political trends. The main body of essays offer aninteresting collection of points of view, for and against Habermas's position by philosophers,social scientists, intellectual historians, and literary critics.SECTIONS & CONTRIBUTORS :Introduction, Maurizio Passerin d'Entrèves. Modernity versus Postmodernity, Jürgen Habermas.Critical Rejoinders : Fred Dallmayr. Christopher Norris. David C. Hoy. James Schmidt. JoelWhitebook. Thematic Reformulations : James Bohman. Diana Coole. Jay M. Bernstein. DavidIngram.

Author : Ronald E Day
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809328482
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Modern Invention of Information written by Ronald E Day and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2008-02-20 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Modern Invention of Information: Discourse, History, and Power, Ronald E. Day provides a historically informed critical analysis of the concept and politics of information. Analyzing texts in Europe and the United States, his critical reading method goes beyond traditional historiographical readings of communication and information by engaging specific historical texts in terms of their attempts to construct and reshape history. After laying the groundwork and justifying his method of close reading for this study, Day examines the texts of two pre–World War II documentalists, Paul Otlet and Suzanne Briet. Through the work of Otlet and Briet, Day shows how documentation and information were associated with concepts of cultural progress. Day also discusses the social expansion of the conduit metaphor in the works of Warren Weaver and Norbert Wiener. He then shows how the work of contemporary French multimedia theorist Pierre Lévy refracts the earlier philosophical writings of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari through the prism of the capitalist understanding of the “virtual society.” Turning back to the pre–World War II period, Day examines two critics of the information society: Martin Heidegger and Walter Benjamin. He explains Heidegger’s philosophical critique of the information culture’s model of language and truth as well as Benjamin’s aesthetic and historical critique of mass information and communication. Day concludes by contemplating the relation of critical theory and information, particularly in regard to the information culture’s transformation of history, historiography, and historicity into positive categories of assumed and represented knowledge.

Author : James Gordon Finlayson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192840959
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Habermas: A Very Short Introduction written by James Gordon Finlayson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-05-26 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a clear and readable overview of the works of today's most influential German philosopher. It analyses the theoretical underpinnings of Habermas's social theory, and its applications in ethics, politics, and law. Finally, it examines how his social and political theory informs his writing on contemporary, political, and social problems.

Author : Barbara Hudson
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780761961604
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Justice in the Risk Society written by Barbara Hudson and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2003-12-06 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Justice in the Risk Society Barbara Hudson outlines traditional liberal perspectives on justice, risk and security, as well as addressing some key concerns. The book provides theoretical analysis with a discussion of policies, and arguments are illustrated by cases and examples.

Author : Davide Mazzi
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527502155
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Discourse of Well-Being in Late-Modern Ireland written by Davide Mazzi and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2023-05-30 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes individuals happy? What contributes to happy societies? What issues are perceived as critical to collective well-being? Psychologists, social and political scientists, and increasing numbers of economists have been preoccupied with questions like these for some time now. Rather than adding to available research from these areas, this book explores the concept of well-being through a different angle. It analyses people’s discourse of well-being on the basis of a collection of letters to the editor from three national newspapers from late-modern Ireland. In this vein, the study provides empirical evidence of major themes of well-being from letter writers’ viewpoint, and it sheds light on recognisable patterns of text structure and language use. In particular, the following research questions are addressed: What dimensions of social well-being can be isolated as the most important to readers–e.g., social justice, public health?; How does letter writers’ discourse tend to unfold in relation to each of them? Overall, the overview of voices from opinionated contemporary readers presented in the volume is meant to serve as a benchmark for an integrated approach to the Irish public sphere at the turn of the twentieth century.

Author : G. Weiss
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230288421
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critical Discourse Analysis written by G. Weiss and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-10-18 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.