Agency And Consciousness In Discourse

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Agency And Consciousness In Discourse

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Author : Paul J. Thibault
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004

Agency And Consciousness In Discourse written by Paul J. Thibault and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Consciousness categories.

Agency And Consciousness In Discourse

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Author : Paul Thibault
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2004-12-01

Agency And Consciousness In Discourse written by Paul Thibault and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-12-01 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

In the past two decades there has been considerable interest in the ways in which subjects are positioned in discursive practice. This interest has entailed a focus on the role of language and discourse in the processes in and through which subjects are constituted in discourse. However, questions of agency and how it relates to consciousness have received less attention. This book explores the ways in which agency and consciousness are created through transactions between self and other. The book argues that it is necessary to regard body-brain interactions in the context of the social and discursive practices which act upon human bodies. These issues of agency and individuation are explored in relation to infant semiosis, as well as in relation to children's symbolic play. Thibault looks at the importance of the self-referential moral conscience in relation to the interpersonal dimension of all acts of meaning-making. This conscience is also connected to the development of a self-referential viewpoint which the book argues is connected to the ecosocial semiotic systems of thinking about consciousness as a complex system operating on many different levels. The author discusses and evaluates the work of linguists, psychologists, biologists, semioticians, and sociologists such as Basil Bernstein, Mikhail Bakhtin, J. J. Gibson, M. A. K. Halliday, Walter Kauffman, Lakoff & Johnson, Jay Lemke, Jean Piaget and Stanley Salthe, to develop a new theory of agency and consciousness.

Discourses Agency And Identity In Malaysia

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Author : Zawawi Ibrahim
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-10-23

Discourses Agency And Identity In Malaysia written by Zawawi Ibrahim and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-23 with Social Science categories.

This book seeks to break new ground, both empirically and conceptually, in examining discourses of identity formation and the agency of critical social practices in Malaysia. Taking an inclusive cultural studies perspective, it questions the ideological narrative of ‘race’ and ‘ethnicity’ that dominates explanations of conflicts and cleavages in the Malaysian context. The contributions are organised in three broad themes. ‘Identities in Contestation: Borders, Complexities and Hybridities’ takes a range of empirical studies—literary translation, religion, gender, ethnicity, indigeneity and sexual orientation—to break down preconceived notions of fixed identities. This then opens up an examination of ‘Identities and Movements: Agency and Alternative Discourses’, in which contributors deal with counter-hegemonic social movements—of anti-racism, young people, environmentalism and independent publishing—that explicitly seek to open up greater critical, democratic space within the Malaysian polity. The third section, ‘Identities and Narratives: Culture and the Media’, then provides a close textual reading of some exemplars of new cultural and media practices found in oral testimonies, popular music, film, radio programming and storytelling who have consciously created bodies of work that question the dominant national narrative. This book is a valuable interdisciplinary work for advanced students and researchers interested in representations of identity and nationhood in Malaysia, and for those with wider interests in the fields of critical cultural studies and discourse analysis. “Here is a fresh, startling book to aid the task of unbinding the straitjackets of ‘Malay’, ‘Chinese’ and ‘Indian’, with which colonialism bound Malaysia’s plural inheritance, and on which the postcolonial state continues to rely. In it, a panoply of unlikely identities—Bajau liminality, Kelabit philosophy, Islamic feminism, refugee hybridity and more—finds expression and offers hope for liberation”. Rachel Leow, University of Cambridge “This book shakes the foundations of race thinking in Malaysian studies by expanding the range of cases, perspectives and outcomes of identity. It offers students of Malaysia an examination of identity and agency that is expansive, critical and engaging, and its interdisciplinary depth brings Malaysian studies into conversation with scholarship across the world”. Sumit Mandal, University of Nottingham Malaysia “This is a much-needed work that helps us to take apart the colonial inherited categories of race which informed the notion of the plural society, the idea of plurality without multiculturalism. It complicates the picture of identity by bringing in religion, gender, indigeneity and sexual orientation, and helps us to imagine what a truly multiculturalist Malaysia might look like”. Syed Farid Alatas, National University of Singapore

Systemic Functional Linguistics Exploring Choice

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Author : Lise Fontaine
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2013-12-19

Systemic Functional Linguistics Exploring Choice written by Lise Fontaine and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-19 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

Bringing together a global team, this stimulating volume provides fresh perspectives on choice, a key notion in systemic functional linguistics.

The Sociology Of Knowledge Approach To Discourse

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Author : Reiner Keller
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2024-07-24

The Sociology Of Knowledge Approach To Discourse written by Reiner Keller and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-07-24 with Social Science categories.

In this updated version of a contemporary classic of discourse research, Reiner Keller develops the theoretical and methodological foundations of the Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse (SKAD). Translated from the original German into English for the first time, this book brings together two previously unconnected domains of knowledge analysis in social science: the rich traditions of sociology of knowledge and symbolic interactionism on one hand and the works of discourse studies, especially in relation to Michel Foucault, on the other. It presents a critical discussion of key developments in sociology of knowledge, symbolic interactionist, and related interpretive approaches, explains the communicational turn of recent work in the field, and examines how traditions within sociology of knowledge shifted focus or converged over time. Following this, the book discusses the development of discourse theory and discourse analysis since the 1960s, including critical discourse analysis, hegemony analysis, or cultural studies approaches. Embarking from a profound reconstruction of Michel Foucault’s work, the book then sets its own distinctive course by integrating major elements of Foucault’s perspective with the sociology of knowledge. Along this path, Reiner Keller establishes the heuristics and methodology for a sociology of knowledge approach to discourse, providing a comprehensive research programme for the study of social relations of knowledge and politics of knowledge. Since its first publication in 2005, SKAD has informed a multitude of studies worldwide and across several academic disciplines. Today it can be considered as one of the major perspectives in discourse research in social science and beyond.

A Theory Of Virtual Agency For Western Art Music

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Author : Robert S. Hatten
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2018-09-06

A Theory Of Virtual Agency For Western Art Music written by Robert S. Hatten and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-06 with Music categories.

In his third volume on musical expressive meaning, Robert S. Hatten examines virtual agency in music from the perspectives of movement, gesture, embodiment, topics, tropes, emotion, narrativity, and performance. Distinguished from the actual agency of composers and performers, whose intentional actions either create music as notated or manifest music as significant sound, virtual agency is inferred from the implied actions of those sounds, as they move and reveal tendencies within music-stylistic contexts. From our most basic attributions of sources for perceived energies in music, to the highest realm of our engagement with musical subjectivity, Hatten explains how virtual agents arose as distinct from actual ones, how unspecified actants can take on characteristics of (virtual) human agents, and how virtual agents assume various actorial roles. Along the way, Hatten demonstrates some of the musical means by which composers and performers from different historical eras have staged and projected various levels of virtual agency, engaging listeners imaginatively and interactively within the expressive realms of their virtual and fictional musical worlds.

Questions Of Consciousness

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Author : Anthony P. Cohen
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2003-12-16

Questions Of Consciousness written by Anthony P. Cohen and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-12-16 with Education categories.

First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Discourses Of Identity

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Author : Martin Mielick
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-02-07

Discourses Of Identity written by Martin Mielick and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-07 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

This edited book draws on research on identity in language education to present a detailed and multi-faceted study of identity in language learning, teaching and revitalization settings in the context of Japan. It employs a diverse range of theoretical approaches, including poststructuralism, critical realism, cognitive behavioral theory, and complexity theory,, as well as methodologies such as linguistic ethnography, narrative enquiry, and critical multimodal discourse analysis. The authors focus on multiple dimensions of identity, illuminating linguistic, cultural and human complexity as manifested in language teaching and learning. This book will be of interest to advanced students and scholars of TESOL, applied linguistics, education, Japanese studies, East Asian studies, linguistic anthropology, indigenous languages and sociolinguistics.

Debating Discourses Practising Feminisms

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Author : The Feminist Review Collective
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2005-07-20

Debating Discourses Practising Feminisms written by The Feminist Review Collective and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-07-20 with Social Science categories.

Brings together international debates on the discourses and practices of contemporary feminisms.

Identity Nation Discourse

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Author : Claire Taylor
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2009-01-14

Identity Nation Discourse written by Claire Taylor and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-14 with Literary Criticism categories.

This volume explores women’s literary and cultural production in Latin America, and suggests how such works engage with discourses of identity, nationhood, and gender. Including contributions by several prominent Latin American scholars themselves, it seeks to provide a vital insight into the analysis and reception of the works in a local context, and foster debate between Latin American and metropolitan academics. The book is divided into two sections: Women and Nationhood, and Models and Genres. The first section comprises six chapters which examines women’s responses to, and attempts to carve out space within, national discourses in a Latin American context. Spanning the nineteenth century to the present day, the chapters offer an insight into the ways in which Latin American women have constructed themselves as modern subjects of the nation, and made use of the ambiguous spaces created by modernization and national discourses. The section starts firstly with a focus on the Southern Cone, covering Chile and Argentina, and then moves geographically northward, to Colombia and Bolivia. The second section, Models and Genres, consists of six chapters that examine how women writers engage with, and critically re-work, existing literary discourses and paradigms. Considering phenomena such as detective fiction, fairy-tales, and classical mythological figures, the chapters illustrate how these genres and models–frequently coded as masculine–are given new inflections, both as a result of their deployment by women, and as a result of their re-working in a Latin American context.