Discourse and Practice: New Tools for Critical Discourse Analysis (Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics)
By Theo van Leeuwen.
Description
Adding a new introduction and two previously unpublished papers, Discourse and Practice: New Tools for Critical Discourse Analysis brings together van Leeuwen's methodological work on discourse analysis of the last 15 years. Discourse, van Leeuwen argues, is a resource for representation, a knowledge about some aspect of reality which can be drawn upon when that aspect of reality has to be represented, a framework for making sense of things. And they are plural. There can be different discourses, different ways of making sense of the same aspect of reality that serve different interest...
ISBN(s)
0195323319, 9780195323313
