Textual moments in biotechnology discourse

نویسنده

  • Inger Lassen
چکیده

In an article published in the Journal of Sociolinguistics (2000: 164), Fairclough stresses the importance of working ‘in a transdisciplinary way’ by combining language and social theory. He also makes the claim that social theorists fail to show how language operates in social life within social research – possibly because social theorists tend to pay too little attention to the role played by language. To overcome this problem the suggestion is made that social theory can benefit from linguistics provided such transdisciplinarity is open to a number of different theories and does not rely on a single integrated sociolinguistic theory, which according to Fairclough would be both ‘implausible and undesirable’. What the social theorist needs, he suggests, is a ‘theoretical specification of the social power of language’ while the linguist would benefit from investigations into how language, discourse and text perform as elements of social practice. In other words the dialectic relationship between social theory and language theory should be addressed in a more balanced way without reducing the number of possible theories to a single approach within sociolinguistics. With the article referred to, Fairclough counters criticism raised by some linguists for focusing too much on description, while failing to pay sufficient attention to discourse and social practice (see e.g. Widdowson 2000: 9) and for failing to give clear recommendations as to how the dialectic relationship between discourse practice and social practice should be approached (Jørgensen and Phillips (1999: 101)). The point I wish to make here is that if such clear recommendations were given, the CDA framework might become a strait-jacket on interpretation, thereby narrowing the scope of meanings that the analyst might be able to uncover.

برای دانلود متن کامل این مقاله و بیش از 32 میلیون مقاله دیگر ابتدا ثبت نام کنید

ثبت نام

اگر عضو سایت هستید لطفا وارد حساب کاربری خود شوید

منابع مشابه

Conceptual Metaphoric Language Use in Structuring Political Discourse in Iran-West Relations: A CDA Perspective

The present study was carried out with the purpose of examining the role of metaphorical language in the critical discourse analysis (CDA) of political texts based on a modern framework postulated by Kövecses (2015). The corpus of the study consisted of thirty-thousand words chosen as a textual sample to see which source conceptual domains are used and what generic/discursive attributes emerge ...

متن کامل

The Study of Ideological Manipulation in Persian Translations of Noam Chomsky’s Media Control Based on Farahzad’s Translation Criticism Model

  Abstract Critical Discourse Analysis as an interdisciplinary approach aims at making transparent the connections between discourse practices and social practices and provides ways of looking into translations from a critical standpoint.Farahzad is among the scholars who presented her specific CDA model inspired by Fairclough’s approach. The present Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA)-based s...

متن کامل

The Effect of Visual Representation, Textual Representation, and Glossing on Second Language Vocabulary Learning

In this study, the researcher chose three different vocabulary techniques (Visual Representation, Textual Enhancement, and Glossing) and compared them with traditional method of teaching vocabulary. 80 advanced EFL Learners were assigned as four intact groups (three experimental and one control group) through using a proficiency test and a vocabulary test as a pre-test. In the visual group, stu...

متن کامل

Youth and Regime Breakdown Discourse Networks and Political Mobilisation during Perestroika and the Weimar Republic In March 1987, the 24-year old Aleksei Kovalyev along with hundreds of young people took

This paper offers a comparison of the public significance of youth during two episodes of regime breakdown. It draws on my thesis which explores the meaning of youth in key crisis moments in Europe and the political mobilisation of young people. I selected cases of hybrid regimes with significant mobilisation of young people and an intense struggle about the meaning of youth as part of regime c...

متن کامل

Investigating Discourse Socialisation Progress of an English as a Second Language Learner Using Systematic Functional Linguistic Approach

This study was framed on the theory of Language Socialisation and a Systematic Functional Linguistic (SFL) approach. The aim of the study was to analyse the oral presentation discourse produced by an elemen- tary Iranian English as Second Language (ESL) postgraduate student in an American university four times (September/December, 2015 and March/September, 2016) over one year. The data were col...

متن کامل

ذخیره در منابع من


  با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید

برای دانلود متن کامل این مقاله و بیش از 32 میلیون مقاله دیگر ابتدا ثبت نام کنید

ثبت نام

اگر عضو سایت هستید لطفا وارد حساب کاربری خود شوید

عنوان ژورنال:

دوره   شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2003