Aditi Bhatia

Discursive Illusions in Public Discourse

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book employs a qualitative approach, drawing on both written and spoken discourses, including policy documents, political speeches, press conferences, blog entries, and corporate reports, and puts forward a unique theoretical framework of Discourse of Illusion.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. September 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 263g
• ISBN-13: 9780367133788
• ISBN-10: 0367133784
• Artikelnr.: 57003891

Autorenporträt

Aditi Bhatia is an Assistant Professor with the Department of English at City University of Hong Kong.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Framing Discursive Illusions 1.1. Framing the Discourse of Illusion 1.2.
Metaphor and the Discourse of Illusion 1.3. Recontextualisation 1.4.
Categorisation 1.5. Public Discourse 1.5.1 Discourses of Terrorism 1.5.2
Media Discourse 1.5.3. Business Discourse 1.6. Summary 2. Theoretical and
Methodological Perspectives 2.1. Analytical Framework 2.2. History 2.2.1.
Tools for the Analysis of History: Structured Immediacy 2.3. Linguistic and
Semiotic Action 2.4. Social Impact 2.4.1. Tools for the Analysis of Social
Impact: Membership categorization analysis 2.5. Textual and Contextual
Resources for Employed Analysis 2.6. Data Set 2.7. Summary 3. Political
Voices in Terrorism 3.1. Discourses of Terrorism 3.2. Good vs. Evil 3.3
Attack vs. Defence 3.4. Law vs. Lawless 3.4.1. Appeal to 'Lawful' Authority
3.5. Alliance vs. Opposition 4. Activist Voices in New Media 4.1. The Arab
Spring 4.2. New Media in the Revolution 4.3. The Revolution 4.3.1.
Revolutionary vs. Anti-Revolutionary 5. Corporate Voices in Climate-Change
5.1. The Discourses of the Environment 5.2. Corporate Social Responsibility
5.2.1. International Standards for CSR Reporting 5.2.2. CSR Practices in
China, America and India 5.2.3. China, India, and America: Key Players in
the Environmental Debate 5.3. Self-Promotion 5.4. Goodwill 5.5.
Self-Justification 6. Conclusions and Implications 6.1. The Rise of
Discursive Illusions 6.2. Findings 6.3 Us vs. Them 6.4. Implications