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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.

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Author:   Klaus Krippendorff ,  Nour Halabi
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367404208

ISBN 10:   0367404206
Pages:   196
Publication Date:   22 January 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Why Discourses in Action Klaus Krippendorff PART I Divergent Approaches to Discourse Analyses Rachel Stonecipher Analysing the Politics of Denial: Critical Discourse Studies and the Discourse-Historical Approach Ruth Wodak Discourse as Ventriloquy: A Pragmatic/Relational Analysis of Media as Agents François Cooren Discursive Construction: A Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse Analysis Reiner Keller Discursive Psychology: A Non-Cognitivist Approach to Practices of Knowing Jonathan Potter PART II Three Prototypical Studies of Discourses in Action Nour Halabi Re-Contextualizing Visual Representations: The Videos Of and About Police Accountability in Three Competing Discourses Mary Angela Bock Discourses for Transformation? Activism, Climate Change, Power and Pathways to the Future Anabela Carvalho The Circulation of Constitutional Discourse Greg Urban Cultural Contingencies of Discursive Practices Kate Zambon Competing Discourses of Power and Resistance: The Cultural Contexts of the Shifting Revolutionary Rhetoric in Egypt Sahar Khamis One Case, Two Verdicts: The Vertical Interplay of Authoritative Discourses in China Hailong Tian Discourses of Dissent: The Role of Speech and Action in Israeli Grassroots Activism Tamar Katriel

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Klaus Krippendorff (Ph.D., Ph.D.h.c) is the Gregory Bateson Professor for Language, Cybernetics, and Culture at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. He pioneered work on communication theory, content analysis, and methods of design semantics. As a critical scholar he examines discursive constructions of realities and paths of liberation from oppression. Nour Halabi (Ph.D.) is a Lecturer of Media and Communication at the University of Leeds and the Vice-Chair of the MeCCSA Race Network. Her interdisciplinary research examines the interactions between mobility, social movements and global media. She received her doctorate from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania and her Masters from The London School of Economics.

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