Dueling Discourses

Author : Laura Felton Rosulek
Publisher : Oxford Studies in Language and
ISBN 13 : 0199337616
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dueling Discourses written by Laura Felton Rosulek and published by Oxford Studies in Language and. This book was released on 2015 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dueling Discourses offers qualitative and quantitative analyses of the linguistic and discursive forms utilized by opposing lawyers in their closing arguments during criminal trials. Laura Felton Rosulek analyzes how these arguments construct contrasting representations of the same realities, applying the insights and methodologies of critical discourse analysis and systemic functional linguistics to a corpus of arguments from seventeen trials. Her analysis suggests that silencing (omitting relevant information), de-emphasizing (giving information comparatively less attention and focus), and emphasizing (giving information comparatively more attention and focus) are the key communicative devices that lawyers rely on to create their summations. Through these processes, lawyers' lexical, syntactic, thematic, and discursive patterns, both within individual narratives and across whole arguments, function together to create versions of reality that reflect each individual lawyer's goals and biases. The first detailed analysis of closing arguments, this book will significantly improve our understanding of courtroom discourse. Furthermore, as previous research on all genres of discourse has examined exclusion/inclusion and de-emphasis/emphasis as separate issues rather than as steps on a continuum, this book will advance the field of discourse analysis by establishing the ubiquity of these phenomena.

Author : Klaus Krippendorff
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000026078
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Discourses in Action written by Klaus Krippendorff and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-01-20 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary collection brings together leading and emerging scholars of discourse, conceptualizing how discursive practices shape social, political, and even material realities today. Discourses in Action presents a wide range of essays that explore fundamental concerns for the social consequences of text, talk, and discursively informed actions and possibilities of discursive engagement. It opens new perspectives on what language does and the differences that scholarly and practical contributions can make. Chapters cover diverse topics, ranging from political struggles, climate change, social revolutions, ethnicity, violence and other often unexpected patterns of discursive consequences. Its essays also explore the cultural contingencies that underlie discourse practices which are usually ignored when analysed from within a taken-for-granted culture. Providing a useful examination of current discourse studies, this interdisciplinary volume is ideal for students and researchers within media, communication, discourse analysis, linguistics, cultural studies, and the sociology of knowledge.

Author : Pushkala Prasad
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780803974111
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Managing the Organizational Melting Pot written by Pushkala Prasad and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1997-05-06 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illuminating the troublesome and disturbing aspects of workplace diversity that tend to be glossed over in most management literature, Managing the Organizational Melting Pot covers key issues such as: individual and institutional resistance, the effectiveness of diversity change efforts, and the less visible ways in which exclusion and discrimination continue to be practiced in the workplace. To assist the reader in understanding some of these dilemmas, the contributors to this collection adopt an array of theoretical frameworks - that are all striking departures from traditional and more functional perspectives on diversity - including intergroup relations theory, critical theory, Jungian psychology, feminism, post-colonial theory, cultural history, postmodernism, realism, institutional theory, and class analysis.

Author : Ty Solomon
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 047211946X
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Subjectivity in American Foreign Policy Discourses written by Ty Solomon and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2015-01-05 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intriguing look at the role of affect, identity, and discourse in world politics and in the context of recent U.S. foreign policy

Author : Eric Friginal
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429535627
Total Pages : 746 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Approaches to Discourse Analysis written by Eric Friginal and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Approaches to Discourse Analysis highlights the diversity, breadth, and depth of corpus approaches to discourse analysis, compiling new and original research from notable scholars across the globe. Chapters showcase recent developments influenced by the exponential growth in linguistic computing, advances in corpus design and compilation, and the applications of sound quantitative and interpretive techniques in analyzing text and discourse patterns. Key discourse domains covered by 35 empirical chapters include: • Research contexts and methodological considerations; • Naturally occurring spoken, professional, and academic discourse; • Corpus approaches to conversational discourse, media discourse, and professional and academic writing. The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Approaches to Discourse Analysis is key reading for both experienced and novice researchers working at the intersection of corpus linguistics and discourse analysis, as well as anyone undertaking study in these areas, as well as anyone interested in related fields and adjacent research approaches.

Author : Péter B. Furkó
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030377636
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Discourse Markers and Beyond written by Péter B. Furkó and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-12-26 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the use of discourse markers - lexical items where drawing a distinction between propositional and non-propositional, syntactically-semantically integrated and discourse-pragmatic uses is especially relevant. Using a combination of qualitative and quantitative methodologies, descriptive and critical (CDA) perspectives, and manual annotation and automatized analyses, the author argues that Discourse Markers (DMs) cannot be effectively studied in isolation, but must instead be contextualised with reference to other discourse-pragmatic devices and their language and genre backgrounds. This book will be of interest to students and academics working in the fields of DM research and critical discourse studies, and will also appeal to scholars working in areas such as genre studies, second language acquisition (SLA), literary analysis, contemporary cinematography, Tolkien scholarship, and Bible studies.

Author : Patrizia Anesa
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3111048780
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Digital (R)Evolution of Legal Discourse written by Patrizia Anesa and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-08-21 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The primary goal of this book is to reach a better understanding of how the digital revolution has affected language and discourse practices in the field of law. It also explores the complex nature of the techniques and discursive strategies which emerge in the relationship between the different stakeholders (including non-experts) thanks to technological advances. By adopting a discourse analytical perspective which combines both qualitative and quantitative approaches, the book explores the hybridity of new genres and communicative processes. It provides an interdisciplinary platform for researchers, practitioners, and educators to present the most recent innovations, trends, and concerns, as well as any solutions already adopted in their professional areas. Their insights converge in a truly multidisciplinary effort to devise and build advanced networks of knowledge to facilitate the interpretation of data in the field of legal linguistics - with a specific focus on digitalisation processes which concern contemporary legal discourse. The book is meant for scholars interested in the evolution of the interconnection between language and law in digital environments. It also addresses law and linguistics students, ideally with some training in language analysis and particular interest in new media and genres. All necessary linguistic or legal technicalities are, however, approached while bearing in mind a wide range of potential backgrounds and levels of education.

Author : Michele Knobel
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820495231
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A New Literacies Sampler written by Michele Knobel and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of new literacies is quickly emerging as a major research field. This book «samples» work in the broad area of new literacies research along two dimensions. First, it samples some typical examples of new literacies - video gaming, fan fiction writing, weblogging, role play gaming, using websites to participate in affinity practices, memes, and other social activities involving mobile technologies. Second, the studies collectively sample from a wide range of approaches potentially available for researching and studying new literacies from a sociocultural perspective. Readers will come away with a rich sense of what new literacies are, and a generous appreciation of how they are being researched.

Author : Andrew C. Wisely
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arthur Schnitzler and the Discourse of Honor and Dueling written by Andrew C. Wisely and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1996 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the turn of the twentieth century, dueling was required of officers and gentlemen in Austria. This study examines the importance of honor to the Viennese playwright Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931) and to his society. It shows the extent to which discourses of class, gender, and race sustained dueling. It also identifies the sociological factors that transformed those discourses and thus helped to abolish dueling in post-war Austria and Germany.

Author : Karen Tracy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190217960
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Discourse, Identity, and Social Change in the Marriage Equality Debates written by Karen Tracy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karen Tracy examines the identity-work of judges and attorneys in state supreme courts as they debated the legality of existing marriage laws. Exchanges in state appellate courts are juxtaposed with the talk that occurred between citizens and elected officials in legislative hearings considering whether to revise state marriage laws. The book's analysis spans ten years, beginning with the U.S. Supreme Court's overturning of sodomy laws in 2003 and ending in 2013 when the U.S. Supreme Court declared the federal government's Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) unconstitutional, and it particularly focuses on how social change was accomplished through and reflected in these law-making and law-interpreting discourses. Focal materials are the eight cases about same-sex marriage and civil unions that were argued in state supreme courts between 2005 and 2009, and six of a larger number of hearings that occurred in state judicial committees considering bills regarding who should be able to marry. Tracy concludes with analysis of the 2011 Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on DOMA, comparing it to the initial 1996 hearing and to the 2013 Supreme Court oral argument about it. The book shows that social change occurred as the public discourse that treated sexual orientation as a lifestyle was replaced with a public discourse of gays and lesbians as a legitimate category of citizen.