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Discourse analysis and ethnomethodological discourse analysis
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This paper aims to present and discuss a range of theoretical perspectives towards discursive phenomena, in particular the different research techniques broadly known as , as well as the. After presenting the core assumptions of these approaches, we discuss their potential to analyze phenomena of discursive interaction, face-to-face or technologically mediated. We believe that, by focusing on the pragmatic aspects of discourse, an ethnomethodological approach to discourse may represent an important contribution for media interaction studies.
Section Introduction, Divergent Approaches to Discourse Analyses, in Discourses in Action
Discourses in Action: What Language Enables Us to Do, 2020
Prices & shipping based on shipping country Book Description 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. Table of Contents Introduction: Why Discourses in Action We use cookies to improve your website experience. To learn how to manage your cookie settings, please see our Cookie Policy. By continuing to use the website, you consent to our use of cookies.
Discourse Analysis (Co-Authored with Jake Nightlinger)
International Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthropology, 2021
Discourse analysis (DA) refers to methods used to analyze the content, sociopolitical significance, and interactional effects of semiotic practices for the purpose of systematically showing how these practices shape social processes (Wortham and Reyes 2015, 1). While DA is used in a wide range of fields, this entry explores DA in linguistic anthropology and the related field of sociolinguistics. These fields root the analysis of discourse in the study of specific sign events, while also attending to the ways that these events presuppose, reflect upon, and create historical, political, economic, and cultural processes that move beyond discrete moments of interaction (Silverstein and Urban 1996; Wortham and Reyes 2015). Such sociocultural studies of discourse are rooted in a dialogical approach to language, which posits that the meaning and significance of discourse rests not only in its denotational content, but also in its interactional text: how people articulate those words, to whom, to what effect, when, and why (see Jakobson, Roman). The practice of DA in such studies involves the deconstruction of contextually linked events into their component parts to draw conclusions on the types of social action achieved through the use of signs, which signal how speakers evaluate and situate themselves among other participants and subjects. In conducting DA, scholars typically begin unpacking discrete events of interaction, and then track the use of signs across multiple events to claim that specific social actions have been accomplished, through this determining the relevant context (see Context and Contextualization; Language and Power).
Blommaert cogently argues throughout the book for a broad-based approach to language in society. Taking globalization seriously means we have to rid ourselves of assumptions about sharedness, community, functionality in speaking and make those things questions for analysis. Blommaert admits that his discussion moves far away from what is typically understood as “discourse analysis” but that is his point, and that is why I like this book so much. I find Blommaert’s book an exciting and timely publication taking vital arguments to Europe, where all too often I encounter colleagues who dismiss my attention to language use as “linguistics,” that is, not relevant to social anthropology. I can only hope that this addition to Cambridge’s catalogue will convince social scientists everywhere that sociolinguistics is more than the correlation of accent with social class and ethnicity. Understanding language use in the round is critical to understanding any and all meaningful human activity.
A Social Cultural Approach to Discourse Analysis
Discourse analysis as a research method can be found in two major families, linguistic-based analysis (such as conversation) and culturally or socially based discursive practices. From the angle of method, discourse analysis can be divided into five categories, that is, structural analysis, cognitive analysis, social cultural analysis, critical analysis and synthetic analysis. In the paper, Social cultural analysis is chosen to be discussed as it regards discourse as interactional activities and emphasizes the social function of language. Language interaction involves all sorts of social cultural contexts; the author tries his best to make an exploration in discourse analysis from the social cultural approach so as to contribute something to the research.
Discourse: A Critical Introduction
Journal of Sociolinguistics, 2006
This is a book I wish I had read in graduate school. It is exciting, interesting, and highly readable. In an advanced undergraduate, or a graduate seminar, it would provide wide opportunities for discussion. It covers far more intellectual territory than most sociolinguistic or discourse analysis texts and it ties micro and macro topics together in an intellectually satisfying fashion. It shows the influences of not only