Media, Information and Technoculture 3000A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Discourse Analysis, Wage Labour, Noam Chomsky
20 Dec 2016
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Third way of qualitatively analyzing text, following semiotics and rhetoric. Within the context of the non-linguistic world. Drawing connections between language use and the material world. Speaking and writing encode power relations, authority, and status that exist apart from language. Showing how the language has done this work. Critical da serves to expose the hidden power relations that exist in discourses. Connects language use with social structure and social practices. In this sense it connects with critical realism (dealing with structures influencing interpretations, encouraging or inducing preferred readings) Overall purpose: connecting language use with social practices. Any discursive event (ex: a sentence) is a piece of text, an instance of discursive practice, an instance of social practice. It is also simultaneously a part of social life. People are not always aware of assumptions and conventions upon which they draw for their linguistic interactions. Blind to a foundational presumption upon which a discourse is based.
