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It is commonplace to say that we are living in troubled times.
Liberal democracy is in crisis. Academic freedom is seriously
constrained. The media offers less insight and analysis than could
be expected given the proliferation of communication tools. Based
on decades of research into the social and ideological functioning
of discourse and with a focus on politics, universities, and the
media, Jef Verschueren offers an analysis of current practices,
asks whether we are all complicit, and makes suggestions for what
we can do. Central to this book is the notion of derailed
reflexivity, referring to the observation that politics,
institutions, and news reporting tend to be excessively aimed at
public opinion, impression management, and clicks, to the detriment
of policies addressing social justice issues, high-quality service,
and media content. Highlighting that education is the cornerstone
for democratic choices and ensures that we can critically assess
media content, this book shows that shared responsibility can be a
source of hope and that everyone has the power to intervene.
Complicity in Discourse and Practice is a call to action for
readers and a plea for actively minding the ecology of the public
sphere.
It is commonplace to say that we are living in troubled times.
Liberal democracy is in crisis. Academic freedom is seriously
constrained. The media offers less insight and analysis than could
be expected given the proliferation of communication tools. Based
on decades of research into the social and ideological functioning
of discourse and with a focus on politics, universities, and the
media, Jef Verschueren offers an analysis of current practices,
asks whether we are all complicit, and makes suggestions for what
we can do. Central to this book is the notion of derailed
reflexivity, referring to the observation that politics,
institutions, and news reporting tend to be excessively aimed at
public opinion, impression management, and clicks, to the detriment
of policies addressing social justice issues, high-quality service,
and media content. Highlighting that education is the cornerstone
for democratic choices and ensures that we can critically assess
media content, this book shows that shared responsibility can be a
source of hope and that everyone has the power to intervene.
Complicity in Discourse and Practice is a call to action for
readers and a plea for actively minding the ecology of the public
sphere.
In this work, the authors focus primarily on the rhetoric of the
"tolerant majority" - those who view themselves as being open to a
diverse society. An analysis is presented of this "rhetoric of
tolerance" which is prevalent in news media, influential
social-scientific research reports, the policy statements of major
political parties, and in government-sponsored expressions of
anti-racism.T he authors use empirical data taken from the context
of "migrant policies" in Belguim, and connect this with wider
European nationalist ideologies, and conclusions of research on
racism and nationalism throughout the world, particularly the US
and the former Yugoslavia.
Immigration, racism and nationalism have become hotly debated issues in the Western world. This highly original and controversial work focuses on the language used by the vast majority who regard themselves as being open to a multi-cultural society. Using Belgium as a case study and drawing parallels with the UK, US, Europe and the former Yugoslavia, the authors analyse this language and reveal a remarkable consistency between these liberal voices, such as in news-reporting, and the language used by radical racist and nationalist groups.
The relationship between language and ideology has long been
central to research in discourse analysis, pragmatics,
sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology, and has also informed
other fields such as sociology and literary criticism. This book,
by one of the world's leading pragmatists, introduces a new
framework for the study of ideology in written language, using the
tools, methods and theories of pragmatics and discourse analysis.
Illustrations are drawn systematically from a coherent corpus of
excerpts from late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century history
textbooks dealing with episodes of colonial history and in
particular the 1857 'Indian Mutiny'. It includes the complete
corpus of excerpts, allowing researchers and students to evaluate
all illustrations; at the same time, it provides useful practice
and training materials. The book is intended as a teaching tool in
language-, discourse- and communication-oriented programs, but also
for historians and social and political scientists.
This volume continues the collection of work by Charles J.
Fillmore, which he started in 2003. Taken together, the work
gathered in these volumes reflects Fillmore's desire to make sense
of the workings of language in a way that keeps in mind questions
of language form, language use, and the conventions linking form,
meaning, and practice. Divided into four parts, the papers
collected in Volume II explore language in use; semantics and
pragmatics; text and discourse; and language in society.
This volume continues the collection of work by Charles J.
Fillmore, which he started in 2003. Taken together, the work
gathered in these volumes reflects Fillmore's desire to make sense
of the workings of language in a way that keeps in mind questions
of language form, language use, and the conventions linking form,
meaning, and practice. Divided into four parts, the papers
collected in Volume III explore the organization of linguistic
knowledge; the foundations of constructing grammar; construction
grammar analyses; and constructions and language in use.
This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies
is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information
for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of
Pragmatics provides easy access - for scholars with widely
divergent backgrounds but with convergent interests in the use and
functioning of language - to the different topics, traditions and
methods which together make up the field of Pragmatics, broadly
conceived as the cognitive, social and cultural study of language
and communication, i.e. the science of language use. The Handbook
of Pragmatics is a unique reference work for researchers, which has
been expanded and updated continuously with annual installments
since 1995. It is also available online.
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