Description: Discourse and Practice : New Tools for Critical Discourse Analysis, Paperback by Van Leeuwen, Theo, ISBN 0195323319, ISBN-13 9780195323313, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Adding a new introduction and two previously unpublished papers, Discourse and Practice: New Tools for Critical Discourse Analysis brings together van Leeuwens methodological work on discourse analysis of the last 15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 childrens books, newspaper reports, brochures and other texts, as well as photographs and
childrens toys, van Leeuwen investigates what can happen when practices are transformed into discourses and provides analytical tools for reconstructing discourses from texts.
Throughout th, 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 Leeuwens 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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Book Title: Discourse and Practice : New Tools for Critical Discourse Analysi
Number of Pages: 192 Pages
Publication Name: Discourse and Practice : New Tools for Critical Discourse Analysis
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Subject: Linguistics / Semantics, Linguistics / General
Item Height: 0.4 in
Publication Year: 2008
Item Weight: 9.6 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9.2 in
Subject Area: Language Arts & Disciplines
Author: Theo Van Leeuwen
Item Width: 6.2 in
Series: Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
