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Discourse and Practice - New Tools for Critical Analysis (Hardcover, New)
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Discourse and Practice - New Tools for Critical Analysis (Hardcover, New)
Series: Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics
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Adding a new introduction and two previously unpublished papers,
Discourse and Practice: New Tools for Critical Discourse Analysis
brings together van Leeuwen's methodological work on discourse
analysis of the last 15 years. Discourse, van Leeuwen argues, is a
resource for representation, a knowledge about some aspect of
reality which can be drawn upon when that aspect of reality has to
be represented, a framework for making sense of things. And they
are plural. There can be different discourses, different ways of
making sense of the same aspect of reality that serve different
interests and will therefore be used in different social
contexts.
However abstract some discourses are, discourses ultimately always
represent doings, van Leeuwen argues. Doing is the foundation of
knowing, and social practices are the foundation of discourses.
Studying children's books, newspaper reports, brochures and other
texts, as well as photographs and children's toys, van Leeuwen
investigates what can happen when practices are transformed into
discourses and provides analytical tools for reconstructing
discourses from texts.
Throughout the book, van Leeuwen makes connections between
sociological and linguistic or semiotic concepts and methods to
ensure the social and critical relevance of his analytical
categories. van Leeuwen's work has already been widely used by
critical discourse analysts across the world. This volume will be a
welcome guide for anyone looking for a form of discourse analysis
that is both explicit and methodical, and critically incisive.
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