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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.

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Author:   G. Weiss ,  R. Wodak
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9780230555143

ISBN 10:   0230555144
Pages:   321
Publication Date:   18 October 2007
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; Theory, Interdisciplinarity and Critical Discourse Analysis; G.Weiss & R.Wodak PART 1: CRITICAL - CRITICAL - CRITICAL Critical Discourse Analysis and the Rhetoric of Critique; M.Billig Critical Discourse Analysis and the Development of New Science; C.A.M.Gouveia Reflexivity and the Doubles of Modern Man: The Discursive Construction of Anthropological Subject Positions; M.W.Jørgensen PART 2: DEBATING AND PRACTISING INTERDISCIPLINARITY The Discourse-Knowledge Interface; T.A.van Dijk Critical Discourse Analysis and Evaluative Meaning; Interdisciplinarity as a Critical Turn; P.Graham Texts and Discourses in the Technologies of Social Organisation; J.Lemke Identities in Flux: Arabs and Jews in Israel; M.Dascal Political and Somatic Alignment: Habitus, Ideology and Social Practice; S.Scollon Voicing the 'Other': Reading and Writing Indigenous Australians; J.R.Martin PART 3: FROM THEORY TO SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PRACTICE Activist Sociolinguistics in a Critical Discourse Analysis Perspective; P.O'Connor Discourse at Work: When Women Take on the Role of Manager; L.Martín-Rojo & C.Gómez Esteban Cross-Cultural Representation of 'Otherness' in Media Discourse; C.R.Caldas-Coulthard Interaction Between Visual and Verbal Communication: Changing Patterns in the Printed Media; C.Anthonissen Index

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"GILBERT WEISS is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Salzburg. Austria. He is the author or editor of several books, including European Union Discourses on Un/employment ( with Peter Muntigl and Ruth Wodak, 2000). RUTH WODAK is Professor of Discourse Studies at Lancaster University, UK and head of the Wittgenstein Research Centre ""Discourse-Politics-Identity"" at the University of Vienna. Among other honours, she was awarded the Wittgenstein Prize for Elite Researchers in 1996. She has published many books; among the most recent are: The Discursiv"

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