| Discourses in Action: What Language Enables Us to Do Contributor(s): Krippendorff, Klaus (Editor), Halabi, Nour (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0367404206 ISBN-13: 9780367404208 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $152.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Media Studies |
| Dewey: 306.44 |
| LCCN: 2019044870 |
| Series: Shaping Inquiry in Culture, Communication and Media Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.3" W x 9.3" (0.95 lbs) 196 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |
