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9780335202041: Critical Textwork: An Introduction to Varieties of Discourse and Analysis
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ISBN 10 : 0335202047 ISBN 13 : 9780335202041
Editeur : Open University Press, 1999

Synopsis

* What is a text?
* Can discourse analysis help our understanding even when a text is not spoken or written?
* How can we use discourse analytic approaches for different varieties of text?

This clearly-written and innovative introduction to discourse analysis for the uninitiated takes a broad view, building on a range of studies carried out on different kinds of text. The chapters work through examples of analysis on many texts that are beyond the range of spoken and written material usually tackled by discourse researchers.

Methodological issues of reading and representation are explored in critical descriptions of how we might read such things as advertising, bodies, comics, film, letters, organizations, sign languages and other language systems. The book illustrates ways in which discourse may be studied wherever there is meaning, and it accessibly introduces the principles of discourse research to conversations, interviews, newspaper articles and fiction, providing an overview of existing research on these kinds of texts.

Critical Textwork is a comprehensive introductory text for students of discourse across the social sciences, including psychology, cultural studies, sociology and human geography. It looks at the organization of language and examines ways of reading texts to excavate and illuminate signs in cultural life.

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À propos de l?auteur

Ian Parker is Professor of Psychology at Bolton Institute and he writes on critical approaches in psychology and psychoanalytic social theory. The Bolton Discourse Network is an interdisciplinary forum for research into different forms of text, based at Bolton Institute.

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Éditeur
Open University Press
Date d'édition
1999
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0335202047
ISBN 13 
9780335202041
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
240
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  0335202055 ISBN 13 :  9780335202058
Editeur : Open University Press, 1999
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