Discourse in Late Modernity (Paperback)

~ Lilie Chouliaraki (Author), Norman Fairclough (Author) "Critical discourse analysis (henceforth CDA) has established itself internationally over the past twenty years or so as a field of cross-disciplinary teaching and research which..." (more)
Key Phrases: semiotic hybridity, late modern social life, dissertation defence, Frankfurt School, Telegraph Avenue (more...)

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This is a well-written, accessible, and provocative example of the post-disciplinary analysis so necessary to understanding, explaining, and contesting the key institutional and socio-cultural features of late modern social formations. -- Bob Jessop This book is a timely addition to the ongoing theoretical debate about the nature of the social world today and ought to be of considerable interest to teachers and researchers in linguistics, sociology, psychology, philosophy, education and politics, as well as intercultural communication. On every page there is evidence that the authors have thought long and productively about CDA's connections with and differences from social theories ! In sum, this is a deeply-considered contribution. An eloquent introduction to the basic tenets of a critical approach, in the Fairclough tradition, to discourse as an element of social practice. A significant contribution to the ongoing establishment of an important new tradition in the social sciences. This is a well-written, accessible, and provocative example of the post-disciplinary analysis so necessary to understanding, explaining, and contesting the key institutional and socio-cultural features of late modern social formations. This book is a timely addition to the ongoing theoretical debate about the nature of the social world today and ought to be of considerable interest to teachers and researchers in linguistics, sociology, psychology, philosophy, education and politics, as well as intercultural communication. On every page there is evidence that the authors have thought long and productively about CDA's connections with and differences from social theories ! In sum, this is a deeply-considered contribution. An eloquent introduction to the basic tenets of a critical approach, in the Fairclough tradition, to discourse as an element of social practice. A significant contribution to the ongoing establishment of an important new tradition in the social sciences.

Product Description

This pilot volume launches the Critical Discourse Analysis series by setting out a new and distinctive theoretical grounding for the subject. The authors identify and set out to meet three contemporary challenges corresponding to the problems, issues, and struggles of contemporary life; to ground critical discourse analysis in a coherent social theory and theory of critical social scientific research; and to clarify its relationship to other types of social analysis and to linguistics.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press (March 15, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0748610820
• ISBN-13: 978-0748610822
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #665,428 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Yes, yes, that sounds quite fine, quite fine, May 10, 2002

By	Henri Edward Dongieux (Decatur, GA, USA) - See all my reviews

Chouliaraki and Fairclough survey the landscape of contemporary critical theory as familiars and even masters. The authors' command of the human sciences is beyond impressive, so much so that the book is equally valuable to sociologists and discourse analysts - one need not be familiar with the esoterica of text analysis, for example, to appreciate the dense connections made here between discursive and social realities. Highly theoretical and pragmatic at the same time, the book provides crucial links between the semologic and sociologic dimensions of late modern life. Drawing on CDA, on the one hand, and the social theory of Bourdieu, Giddens, Foucault, and Bernstein, on the other, the book will be valuable reading for anyone concerned that the proliferation of discourses (of all kinds) in late modernity has not yet been accompanied by a critical awareness of the social systems in which these discourses emerge and interact - only to implode back into the social.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very helpful for CDA, May 25, 2008

By	Elizabeth E. Feltner "Elizabeth" - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Though at times the language gets a little dense--for one thing, way too many parenthetical expressions--this is a great text for understanding CDA better. Also touches on social movement rhetoric.