Dec 12
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Title: Society and Discourse
Subtitle: How Social Contexts Influence Text and Talk
Publication Year: 2012
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
http://us.cambridge.org
Book URL: http://www.cambridge.org/us/knowledge/isbn/item6893168/Society%20and%20Discourse/?site_locale=en_US
Author: Teun A. van Dijk
Paperback: ISBN: 9781107407107 Pages: 298 Price: U.S. $ 46.00
Abstract:
Please note: This is a new paperback edition of a previously announced book.
After his earlier book Discourse and Context, also published by Cambridge
University Press, Teun A. van Dijk in this 2009 study presents the second part
of his new multidisciplinary theory of context. The main thesis of this theory
is that the influence of society on discourse is not direct, as is postulated
for instance in sociolinguistics, but cognitively mediated by subjective
mental models of the communicative situation: context models. These dynamic
models control discourse production and comprehension and define the pragmatic
appropriateness of text and talk. Whereas in Discourse and Context the
psychological and linguistic aspects of context were analyzed, this book
focuses on the social psychological, sociological, anthropological and
political aspects of context. Tony Blair’s 2003 speech defending his motion to
go to war against Saddam Hussein and the following debate in parliament is
used as an example illustrating the new theory.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Context and social cognition
3. Context and society
4. Context and culture
5. Context and politics: the Iraq debate in British parliament
6. Conclusions
Dec 12
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Title: (Re)presentations and Dialogue
Series Title: Dialogue Studies 16
Publication Year: 2012
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/
Book URL: http://benjamins.com/catalog/ds.16
Editor: François Cooren
Editor: Alain Létourneau
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027273161 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027273161 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 99.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027273161 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027210333 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 104.94
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027210333 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 99.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027210333 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Abstract:
This edited volume proposes key contributions addressing the connections
between two important themes: dialogue and representation. These connections
were approached or interpreted in three possible ways: 1. Dialogue as
representation, 2. Normative perspectives on dialogue/representation issues,
and 3. Representations of dialogue. The first interpretation — Dialogue as
representation — consists of exploring dialogue as an activity where many
things, beings or voices can be made present, whether we think in terms of
ideologies, cultures, situations, collectives, roles, etc. The second
interpretation – Normative perspectives on dialogue/representation issues –
leads scholars to explore questions of normativity, which are often associated with the notion of
dialogue, when conceived as a morally stronger form of conversation. Finally,
the third interpretation – Representations of dialogue – invites us to address
methodological questions related to the representation of this type of
conversation. Echoing Bakhtin, contributors were invited to explore the
polyphonic, heteroglot, or dialogic character of any text, discourse or
interaction.
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