CMST 2B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: National Technical Research Organisation

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: CMST 2B03
• Professor: Philip Savage

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Interviewing a body of conversations the power of discourse. De nition: discourse analysis- an approach of talk and other forms of discourse (on-going conversations/ body of texts) that emphasizes the way language creates versions of reality. Language patterns actions: discourse is patterned around rhetorical strategies, and therefore asks, what is this discourse doing, how is this discourse constructed to make them happen, what resources are available to perform this activity. Foucault on mental illness a discourse of mental illness was created. Implications for: who constitute the mentally ill. Monday, november 30, 2015: nature of the illness type of treatment, who is entitles to treat them. The discourse has power by justifying: power of practitioners treatment regimens, discourse is more than language the major factor. Micro approach to da: non-foucaultian da, less broadly historical. Ne grained analysis of talk and texts (ca) Four themes: discourse is a topic, discourse is a form of action, discourse is rhetorically organized.