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What’s not to like about Discourse?

What’s not to like about Discourse?. Mark Amsler (English) m.amsler@auckland.ac.nz 24 March 2011. Discourse as a Super-Category.

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What’s not to like about Discourse?

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  1. What’s not to like about Discourse? Mark Amsler (English) m.amsler@auckland.ac.nz 24 March 2011

  2. Discourse as a Super-Category • Discourse (capital D) names ways of behaving, interacting, valuing, thinking, believing, speaking, and often reading, writing, activities, and cognitive and affective states which are interpreted as instantiations of particular identities (or “types of people”) by one or more specific groups.

  3. Discourses as descriptive and analytic frames • discourses (little d) are “ways of recognizing and getting recognized as certain sorts of whosdoing certain sorts of whats.” (James Paul Gee) • Manifest > Latent content (unsaid & meaningful, powerful) • Denotation > Connotation > Ideology • Rhetoric of Hope vs rhetoric of Power

  4. Expression as Discourse: two examples • “Academic English,” “Academic literacy” problem of language as a neutral conduit • Who is “the University”? UoA VC’s contract offer to academic staff nouns/pronouns of power and interpellation from I to we/us to the University proposes

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