Critical textwork : an introduction to varieties of discourse and analysis / [edited by] Ian Parker and the Bolton Discourse Network.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Parker, Ian, 1956-

Bolton Discourse Network.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discourse analysis.

Physical Description:

x, 226 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Buckingham ; Philadedlphia : Open University Press, 1999.

Summary:

This clearly written and innovative introduction to discourse analysis for the uninitiated takes a broad view, building on a range of studies carded 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, organisations, 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.

Contents:

1 Introduction: varieties of discourse and analysis / Ian Parker 1

Part I Spoken and written texts 13

2 Interviews: meaning in groups / Sam Bevan, Kate Bevan 15

3 Letters: embracing letter writing within discourse analysis / Tom Phillips 29

4 Fiction: five run around together - clearing a discursive space for children's literature / David Rudd 40

5 Lessons: philosophy for children / Barbara Delafield 53

Part II Visual texts 65

6 Comics: strip semiotics / Dan Heggs 67

7 Advertising: critical analysis of images / Richard Pearce 78

8 Television: signs on the box / Helen Russell 92

9 Film: a surface for writing social life / Hakan Durmaz 103

Part III Physical texts 115

10 Cities: resident readers and others / Martine C. Middleton 117

11 Organizations: breaking the body of the text / Heather Hopfl 129

12 Gardens: planning and presentation / Susan Ford 141

13 Sign language: space, community and identity / John Allbutt, Sarah Gray, Beverlea Schofield 153

Part IV Subjectivity in research 165

14 Bodies: reading the body / David J. Nightingale 167

15 Ethnography: reading across culture / Mike Humphreys 178

16 Silence: absence and context / Christine Noble 191

17 Action: self-advocacy and change / Dan Goodley 201.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0335202055

0335202047

OCLC:

39714418