Discourse linguistics and Beyond. Volume 2: Current approaches in Eastern Europe - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3947170114 ISBN 13 : 9783947170111

Editeur : de-iure-pl, 2018

Synopsis

Preface to Volume 2 This volume of the D-ART series is dedicated to Professor Anna Duszak, a prominent scientist and wonderful person, whose thoughts and aspirations in the middle of the 2010s were focused on her idea of bringing together Western and Eastern European discourse studies traditions, enabling discourse researchers to hear each other, sharing their experience with various ways of doing discourse analysis, historically and presently, thereby, creating a unified discourse community. In May, 2015, the Department of Discourse Studies of the Institute of Applied Linguistics at the University of Warsaw, held the international conference “GLOBE 2015: East – West European forum on discourse. Talking ‘discourse’ in European linguistics: past, present and future”. Professor Anna Duszak was its inspiring leader and patron. This volume is considered to be a meeting point and an integrating platform for joint efforts and promotion of academic diversity and merging of perspectives in the field of discourse studies. Volume 2 aims at representing the variety of approaches to discourse studies (discourse linguistics) of the countries of the participants, namely, Belarus, the Czech Republic, Latvia, Poland, Russia and Ukraine. While thinking about the approaches, perspectives and foci to be selected and included into this publication, it was noted that, first of all, it should function holistically. However, specific each approach may seem, they should form complementary theoretical and methodological paradigm. The volume contains four Round Tables, and thus, presents four significant topics depicted within their structural development, listed in the following way: The perspectives within the topic “Discourse as a center of integrative force” (Round Table 1) are represented by: 1. content or meaning construction studies and their foci on macro- and micro- sign studies, involving the perspectives of complex-system-studies (integrating cognitive, pragmatic textual and language systems of knowledge), discourse studies (integrating informative and interactive layers of meaning), and media studies (integrating the visual and the verbal within integrative multi-modal content); 2. discourse linguistics as an applied science and its foci on semiotics for political discourse studies, discourse analysis for translation studies, neo-Socratic dialogue for practical philosophy, and cognitive semantics for cultural group diversity studies. The perspectives developed within the topic “Discourse linguistics as a theoretical and applied field of knowledge” (Round Table 2) are represented by: o conceptual functional categories reconsidered as an interrelation of genre, text, and discourse (discourse practice) as key categories of discourse studies enriched with the categories of a cluster type such as discourse picture of the world ; o interconnection of discourse theory at large and meta-discourse; o acceptance of methodological constraints of discourse within the applied nature of discourse studies as such. The perspectives developed within the topic “Intercrossing of functional linguistics and discourse linguistics” (Round Table 3) are represented by: o perspectives from the functional linguistic theory, and its variability, projected to discourse studies; o particular categories, which interconnect functional and discourse studies, namely: function and discourse picture in processing; transformation, exposure, and comparison within the dynamic triad “language – speech – discourse”; o conceptual systems of functional linguistics in their unity and units of representation. The perspectives developed within the topic “Applied aspects of discourse linguistics: case studies” (Round Table 4) are represented by: o methods of structuring dynamic models and descriptions, reconstructions and functional-semantic analyses to identify a type of discourse (hybrid type of discourse), which can disappear if its time-bias variation is not reproduced and can transform a type of communication from institutional through community-bias to personal and back; o the methods of reconstruction, interpretation and description to collect and study a database of discourses of today and the past, to identify the transformation of social relations within time, space, and scale. o methods of concept analysis, content-analysis, contextual analysis, and interpretative analysis to reveal the communities as they are within their phenomenological, ideational and activity-bias representations. Through the above presented schemata of the Round Tables, we hope to have managed to outline the full palette of materials collected in this volume and prepare our reader for the engaging process of penetrating into the actual professional reality of the Eastern European linguists who dedicate their research activities to testing the various capacities of the linguistic studies, thereby demonstrating the humanitarian value and social meaning of the field. With this in mind, we dare believe the contents of this book will be a solid step towards understanding modern linguistics as a versatile cognitive science and an advancing field where different traditions are being met and melted, which could bring about a better understanding of reality in our changing world.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: de-iure-pl
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3947170114
• ISBN 13: 9783947170111
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• Nombre de pages: 350
• Éditeur: Oukhvanova Irina
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Buchpark GmbH; gpsr@buchpark.de; ; Krügerweg 1; Trebbin; Brandenburg; 14959; Allemagne