What does discourse analytics study?
How language varies across contexts and can mark social difference
According to Erving Goffman, what is the domain of direct interaction between people
“the interaction order” (1983)
How did Sack refer to audio recordings in 1960s?
Access to social interaction at a level of detail and the capacity for repeated examination
Say some samples to features mobilized within turns at talk
lexical choices, intonation contours, nonvocal behaviors
When children speak to adults, they commonly begin by asking a question such as “You know what, Daddy? Is the response the same with adults?”
Different. Children can tell a story in such a case, adults' speech context may differ
What is normative critique of discourse?
It does not simply describe existing realities but also evaluates them, assesses the extent to which they match up to various values, which are taken (more or l
Give example to explanatory critique
inequalities in wealth, income and access to various social goods might be explained as an effect of mechanisms and forces associated with ‘capitalism’
Who claims that purely normative or moral critique is not enough if the aim is to change social realities for the better; but values, evaluation and moral critique are a necessary part of critical social science
Sayer(2003)
In which senses is discourse used?
(a) meaning-making as an element of the social process; (b) the language associated with a particular social field or practice (e.g. ‘political discourse’); (c)
The social process can be seen as the interplay between three levels of social reality: social structures, practices and events. What are social practises
Social practices ‘mediate’ the relationship between general and abstract social structures and particular and concrete social events
What are genres in discourse?
They are semiotic ways of acting and interacting such as news or job interviews, reports or editorials in newspapers, or advertisements on TV or the internet
Who identified Recontextualization in discourse?
Basil Bernstein, Chouliaraki and Fairclough(1999)
What is r trans-disciplinary research?
it sees ‘dialogue’ between them as a source for the theoretical and methodological development of each of them
What is a defining characteristic of text?
Coherence. The principles of coherence are social in their origins and, being social, they point to meanings about ‘social
What is the point of a multimodal approach?
To get beyond approaches where mode was integrally linked, often in a mutually defining way, with a theory and a disciplin
