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JournalISSN: 1750-4813

Discourse & Communication 

SAGE Publishing
About: Discourse & Communication is an academic journal published by SAGE Publishing. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Discourse analysis & Critical discourse analysis. It has an ISSN identifier of 1750-4813. Over the lifetime, 604 publications have been published receiving 8879 citations. The journal is also known as: speech.


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TL;DR: In this article, a framework for analysing the way discourses construct legitimation for social practices in public communication as well as in everyday interaction is presented, and four key categories of legitimation are distinguished: 1) "authorization", legitimation by reference to the authority of tradition, custom and law, and of persons in whom institutional authority is vested; 2) moral evaluation, legitimation with reference to discourses of value; 3) rationalization and 4) mythopoesis, legitimacy conveyed through narratives whose outcomes reward legitimate actions and punish non-legitimate actions.
Abstract: The article sets out a framework for analysing the way discourses construct legitimation for social practices in public communication as well as in everyday interaction. Four key categories of legitimation are distinguished: 1) ‘authorization’, legitimation by reference to the authority of tradition, custom and law, and of persons in whom institutional authority is vested; 2) ‘moral evaluation’, legitimation by reference to discourses of value; 3) rationalization, legitimation by reference to the goals and uses of institutionalized social action, and to the social knowledges that endow them with cognitive validity; and 4) mythopoesis, legitimation conveyed through narratives whose outcomes reward legitimate actions and punish non-legitimate actions. Examples are drawn from texts legitimating or de-legitimating compulsory education, including children’s books, brochures for parents, teacher training texts, and media texts.

658 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, a linguistic marketplace in which the processes of self-branding and micro-celebrity depend on visibility as a means of increasing social and economic growth is described.
Abstract: Twitter is a linguistic marketplace (Bourdieu, 1977) in which the processes of self-branding and micro-celebrity (Marwick, 2010) depend on visibility as a means of increasing social and economic ga...

356 citations

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TL;DR: The authors explored the nature, function, and use of interdiscursivity in genre theory, defining interdiscurcivity as a function of appropriation of generic resources across discursive, professional and cultural practices, which is central to our understanding of the complexities of genres that are typically employed in professional, disciplinary, and institutional communication.
Abstract: In recent versions of professional genre analysis, context has assumed increasingly critical importance, thus redefining genre as a configuration of text-internal and text-external factors. The emphasis on text-external properties of genre has brought into focus the notion of interdiscursivity as distinct from intertextuality, which is primarily viewed as appropriation of text-internal resources. Drawing evidence from a number of professional contexts, this article explores the nature, function, and use of interdiscursivity in genre theory, defining interdiscursivity as a function of appropriation of generic resources across discursive, professional and cultural practices, which, it is claimed, is central to our understanding of the complexities of genres that are typically employed in professional, disciplinary, and institutional communication.

265 citations

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TL;DR: This article used a discourse analytic perspective to analyse sex and relationship advice in a best-selling women's magazine and identified three interpretative repertoires which together structure constructions of sexual relationships: the intimate entrepreneurship repertoire, organized around plans, goals and the scientific management of relationships; men-ology, in which women are instructed in how to learn to please men; and transforming the self, which calls on women to remodel their interior lives in order to construct a desirable subjectivity.
Abstract: This paper uses a discourse analytic perspective to analyse sex and relationship advice in a best-selling women's magazine. It identifies three different interpretative repertoires which together structure constructions of sexual relationships: the intimate entrepreneurship repertoire, organised around plans, goals and the scientific management of relationships; men-ology, in which women are instructed in how to learn to please men; and transforming the self, which calls on women to remodel their interior lives in order to construct a desirable subjectivity. The paper considers each repertoire in turn, and also looks at how they work together in order to privilege men and heterosexuality. Discussion focuses in particular on the postfeminist nature of the advice, in which pre-feminist, feminist and anti-feminist ideas are entangled in such a way as to make gender ideologies more pernicious and difficult to contest.

180 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the sustained study of occupational identity as a pivotal mechanism for organizing work and thus as a productive means of integratio with work is pursued, and two central goals are pursued.
Abstract: This article pursues two central goals. First, I seek to advance the sustained study of occupational identity as a pivotal mechanism for organizing work and, thus, as a productive means of integrat...

174 citations

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No. of papers from the Journal in previous years
YearPapers
202334
202229
202140
202042
201941
201844