Discourse and crisis : critical perspectives / edited by Antoon De Rycker and Zuraidah Mohd Don.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rycker, Antoon De.

Zuraidah Mohd. Don.

Series:

Discourse approaches to politics, society, and culture

Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture ; 52

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crises in literature.

Critical discourse analysis.

Discourse analysis--Political aspects.

Discourse analysis.

Discourse analysis--Social aspects.

Sociolinguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (506 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Discourse and Crisis: Critical perspectives brings together an exciting collection of studies into crisis as text and context, as unfolding process and unresolved problem. Crisis is viewed as a complex phenomenon that - in its prevalence, disruptiveness and (appearance of) inevitability - is both socially produced and discursively constituted. The book offers multiple critical perspectives: in-depth linguistically informed analyses of the discourses of power and collaboration implicated in crisis construal and recovery; detailed examination of the critical role that language plays during the crisis life-cycle; and further problematization of the semiotic-material complexity of crisis and its usefulness as an analytical concept. The research focus is on the discursive and interactive mediation of crisis in organizational, political and media texts. The volume contains contributions from across the world, offering a polyphonic overview of 'discourse and crisis' research. This impressive volume will be useful to researchers and academics working on the intersection of crisis, language and communication. It is also of interest to practitioners in organizational management, politics and policy, and media.

Contents:

Discourse and Crisis

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Discourse in crisis, crisis in discourse

1. Introduction

2. Crisis

3. Outline of the volume

4. Relevance

5. Limitations and suggestions for future research

6. Concluding remarks

A note on authorship

References

2. 'Crisis' in Modernity: A sign of the times between decisive change and potential irreversibility

2. The concept of crisis in Western European thought

3. The trouble with 'crisis'

4. The meanders of abstraction

5. What does 'crisis' mean?

PART I. Organizational discourse

3. Serving a high-risk warrant: The role of context in police crisis negotiations

2. Theoretical background

3. Data and methodological approach

4. The crisis negotiation context of situation

5. The crisis negotiation context of creation

6. Conclusions

Appendix 1

Appendix 2

Appendix 3

4. Misalignments in Finnish emergency call openings: Legitimacy, asymmetries and multi-tasking as in

2. Structural organization of emergency phone calls

3. Data and method

4. Sources of misalignment

5. Discussion and conclusion

Appendix

5. Collaboration in crisis: Pursuing perception through multiple descriptions (how friendly vehicles

1. Introduction: Background and methods

2. Data

3. Analyses and findings

4. Discussion and conclusion

PART II. Political discourse

6. The political use of a national crisis: Bush's legitimation of the USA Freedom Corps in the wake

3. Theoretical framework and methodology

4. The call for service.

5. Legitimation discourses

6. Legitimating the USA Freedom Corps

7. Conclusion

7. Reflections in the eyes of a dying tiger: Looking back on Ireland's 1987 economic crisis

2. The context of Ireland's economy: A tale of two crises

3. The context of the Conversations with Eamon Dunphy radio show

4. Interpreting the discourse of the Walsh and McCreevy interviews

5. Conclusions

8. Local community leaders' constructions of women's interests and needs: Impeding resolution of Ken

2. The 2007-2008 Kenyan Crisis

3. Women's interests and political participation

4. Political interviews and community leadership

5. Methodology

6. Results and discussion

7. Conclusions

9. The financial crisis hits hard: The impact of emerging crisis on discursive strategies and lingui

2. FSR as a genre of financial English

3. Constructing and qualifying the financial crisis (2004-2010)

4. Evaluating and mitigating the financial crisis

5. Discussion and conclusions

Source texts

PART III. Media discourse

10. Red or Yellow, Peace or War: Agonism and antagonism in online discussion during the 2010 politic

1. Antagonism and agonism in Thai political discussions

2. The background to the 2010 political unrest

3. Online political discussion forums

4. Research methodology

5. Findings

6. Discussion and concluding remarks

11. The 2008 urban riots in Greece: Differential representations of a police shooting incident

2. Recontextualizing a social practice

3. The police shooting of 6 December 2008

4. The police shooting as a discursive event.

5. Entextualizing the police shooting: Athens Indymedia versus Alter

12. Benefit or burden? Press representation of immigrant workers during the Spanish economic recessi

2. Theoretical moorings

3. Method

4. Findings

5. Discussion

Postscript

Appendix A

Appendix B

13. Mexico City and the H1N1 health crisis: The discursive interconnectedness of viruses, kidnapping

2. Mexico: A country in crisis

3. Editorials and opinion columns

4. Materials and methods of analysis

5. Results and discussion

14. Polarization in the media representation of terrorism crises: Transitivity and lexical choices i

2. News as a site for representing terrorism crisis

3. Methodology

4. Analysis and discussion of findings

EPILOGUE

15. A paradoxical approach to crisis

1. Crisis

2. Paradox and crisis

3. The time paradox

4. Paradox and scholars

5. Revisiting the time paradox

6. New beginnings

Notes on contributors

Name index

Subject index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 11, 2013).

ISBN:

9789027270924

9027270929

OCLC:

863673365