Jay L. Lemke

Textual Politics

Discourse And Social Dynamics

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Texts record the meanings we make: in words, pictures and deeds, and politics chronicles our uses of power in shaping social relationships large and small. Textual politics is about meaning - the meaning we make with words and with the symbolic values of every object and action.; The book begins with an introduction which discusses the relationship between Discourse And The Notions Of Power And Ideology. These Concepts Are Then applied to major issues: the social construction of class, gender and individuality; the rhetoric of polarizing social controversies religious fundamentalism vs. gay rights; and the abuse of technical language in policy arguments educational research vs. conservative politics. The book ends with chapters which extend the theory to processes of large- scale social change and apply it to the challenges facing education and political action in the new global information century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Januar 1995
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 324g
• ISBN-13: 9780748402168
• ISBN-10: 0748402160
• Artikelnr.: 21761059

Autorenporträt

Jay L. Lemke

Inhaltsangabe

Textual Politics: An Introduction
Discourse and Social Theory
Discourses in Conflict: Heteroglossia and Text Semantics
Technical Discourse and Technocratic Ideology
The Social Construction of the Material Subject
Discourse, Dynamics, and Social Change
Critical Praxis: Education, Literacy, Politics
Retrospective Postscript: Making Meaning, Making Trouble.