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Doing discourse research : an introduction for social scientists / Reiner Keller ; translated by Bryan Jenner.

By: Language: English Original language: German Publication details: London : SAGE Publications, 2013.Description: vi, 162 pages ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9781446249703 (hbk.)
  • 1446249700 (hbk.)
  • 9781446249710 (pbk.)
  • 1446249719 (pbk.)
Uniform titles:
  • Diskursforschung. English.
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Contents:
1. The Current Relevance of Discourse Research -- Preamble -- Collective Orders of Knowledge and Discourses -- 2. Approaches in Discourse Research -- 2.1. The History of the Term D\0300iscourse' -- Interlude: The Discourse Ethics of Jurgen Habermas and Discourse Research -- 2.2. Discourse Analysis -- 2.3. Discourse Linguistics and (Corpus-based) Linguistic-Historical Analyses of Discourse -- 2.4. Critical Discourse Analysis and Kritische Diskursanalyse -- 2.5. Culturalist Discourse Research -- 2.6. Discourse Theories -- 2.7. Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse -- 2.8. Further Disciplinary Developments -- 2.9. Summary -- 3. The Research Process -- 3.1. Concepts -- 3.2. Questions -- 3.3. General Foundations -- 4. Doing Discourse Research -- 4.1. Getting started -- 4.2. The Exploration of the Field of Investigation -- 4.3. Selection of Data -- 4.4. Other Data Formats and Methods -- 5. The Detailed Analysis of Data -- 5.1. The Situational and Material Nature of a Statement -- 5.2. Formal and Linguistic-Rhetorical Structure -- 5.3. The Interpretative Analytics of Contents -- 6. From Detailed Analysis to Overall Results -- 6.1. From Utterances via Statements to Discourse and Beyond -- 6.2. Interpretation and Presentation of Results -- 7. Concluding Remarks.
Summary: 'This book provides an introduction to the basic principles of discourse research and provides practical research strategies for doing discourse analyses in the social sciences. The book includes guidance on developing a research question, selecting data and analysing it, and presenting your results. The author has extensive practical experience in the field of discourse research and shows throughout how the methods suggested are compatible with numerous research questions and problems in sociology, cultural, political and social studies and related disciplines'--Back cover.
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Originally published in German, Wiesbaden : VS Verlag f✹ Sozialwissenschaften, 2007.

Formerly CIP. Uk

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. The Current Relevance of Discourse Research -- Preamble -- Collective Orders of Knowledge and Discourses -- 2. Approaches in Discourse Research -- 2.1. The History of the Term D\0300iscourse' -- Interlude: The Discourse Ethics of Jurgen Habermas and Discourse Research -- 2.2. Discourse Analysis -- 2.3. Discourse Linguistics and (Corpus-based) Linguistic-Historical Analyses of Discourse -- 2.4. Critical Discourse Analysis and Kritische Diskursanalyse -- 2.5. Culturalist Discourse Research -- 2.6. Discourse Theories -- 2.7. Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse -- 2.8. Further Disciplinary Developments -- 2.9. Summary -- 3. The Research Process -- 3.1. Concepts -- 3.2. Questions -- 3.3. General Foundations -- 4. Doing Discourse Research -- 4.1. Getting started -- 4.2. The Exploration of the Field of Investigation -- 4.3. Selection of Data -- 4.4. Other Data Formats and Methods -- 5. The Detailed Analysis of Data -- 5.1. The Situational and Material Nature of a Statement -- 5.2. Formal and Linguistic-Rhetorical Structure -- 5.3. The Interpretative Analytics of Contents -- 6. From Detailed Analysis to Overall Results -- 6.1. From Utterances via Statements to Discourse and Beyond -- 6.2. Interpretation and Presentation of Results -- 7. Concluding Remarks.

'This book provides an introduction to the basic principles of discourse research and provides practical research strategies for doing discourse analyses in the social sciences. The book includes guidance on developing a research question, selecting data and analysing it, and presenting your results. The author has extensive practical experience in the field of discourse research and shows throughout how the methods suggested are compatible with numerous research questions and problems in sociology, cultural, political and social studies and related disciplines'--Back cover.

Translated from the German.

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