Selves, Bodies and the Grammar of Social Worlds
Jodie Clark
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Description for Selves, Bodies and the Grammar of Social Worlds
Hardback. Series: Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse. Num Pages: 158 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, 20 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: CFGR; CFK; JFFK; JHBA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 339.
This book is an invitation to researchers who are committed to social change to look for ideas about transformation in an unexpected place – that is, in the data generated from empirical research. Informed by Critical Discourse Analysis and postmodern theory, it proposes a method of locating, through close grammatical analysis of everyday descriptions of the social world, the desire for alternative transformative structures. Drawing upon insightful analysis of conversational data collected over a period of 12 years from both ‘marginalised’ and ‘mainstream’ participants, it reveals innovative ways of imagining social ... Read more
This book is an invitation to researchers who are committed to social change to look for ideas about transformation in an unexpected place – that is, in the data generated from empirical research. Informed by Critical Discourse Analysis and postmodern theory, it proposes a method of locating, through close grammatical analysis of everyday descriptions of the social world, the desire for alternative transformative structures. Drawing upon insightful analysis of conversational data collected over a period of 12 years from both ‘marginalised’ and ‘mainstream’ participants, it reveals innovative ways of imagining social ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
158
Condition
New
Series
Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse
Number of Pages
142
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137598424
SKU
V9781137598424
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99-15
About Jodie Clark
Jodie Clark is Senior Lecturer in English Language at Sheffield Hallam University, and Course Leader for the BA (honours) English degree. She is the author of Language, Sex and Social Structure (2012, Palgrave). She hosts an accessible podcast about her research ideas at www.structuredvisions.wordpress.com.
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