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Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: This paper developed a discursive model of institutionalization that highlights the relationships among texts, discourse, institutions, and action, and proposed a set of conditions under which institutionalization processes are most likely to occur, and conclude the article with an exploration of the model's implications for other areas of research.
Abstract: We argue that the processes underlying institutionalization have not been investigated adequately and that discourse analysis provides a coherent framework for such investigation. Accordingly, we develop a discursive model of institutionalization that highlights the relationships among texts, discourse, institutions, and action. Based on this discursive model, we propose a set of conditions under which institutionalization processes are most likely to occur, and we conclude the article with an exploration of the model's implications for other areas of research.

1,469 citations


BookDOI
02 Aug 2004
TL;DR: Analysing political discourse as discussed by the authors explores the ways in which we think and behave politically, using case studies of politicians and other speakers, including an examination of the dangerous influence of a politician's words on the defendants in the Stephen Lawrence murder trial.
Abstract: This is an essential read for anyone interested in the way language is used in the world of politics. Based on Aristotle's premise that we are all political animals, able to use language to pursue our own ends, the book uses the theoretical framework of linguistics to explore the ways in which we think and behave politically. Contemporary and high profile case studies of politicians and other speakers are used, including an examination of the dangerous influence of a politician's words on the defendants in the Stephen Lawrence murder trial. International in its perspective, Analysing Political Discourse also considers the changing landscape of political language post-September 11, including the increasing use of religious imagery in the political discourse of, amongst others, George Bush. Written in a lively and engaging style, this book provides an essential introduction to political discourse analysis.

1,203 citations


BookDOI
02 Aug 2004
TL;DR: This paper found that African-Americans are more likely to use abstract nouns than adjectives in academic social language to describe their goals and achievements, as well as use them in their activities.
Abstract: language 124 abstract nouns 30 academic social language 30 achievement statements 124 activities 12, 83 activity building 86, 93, 140 adverbial phrases 150 adverbs 101, 150 affective statements 124, 126 African-Americans: children 91, 106–7, 110–14; Hispanic doctors 131; storytelling 147; teenagers 43; Vernacular English 113 agent-patients 19 agreement 95 ambiguity 31, 32 Americans: Native 14–17, 19 see also African-Americans anthropologists 56 applied issues 8 articles 100 asprin bottle warning 23–5 assemblies 46–8 Athabaskans 16–17 ‘atrophied’ term 55–6 bachelors 58–60 background/foreground context 3 Barsalou, L.W. 49 Bellah, R.N. et al 67; Habits of the Heart 67 Bernstein, B. 132 biologists 27–8 biology 27, 55–6 Bloome, D.: and Green, J. 98n Bourdieu, P. 136 brain development 56–7 Brown, J. 37 butterflies (Heliconius) 27–8 Carroll, L.: Jabberwocky 101, 102 case studies: Jane 25–7, 29; Sandra 136–48, 146 see also interviews catalyst 111, 112 child(ren): African-American 106; rearing model 81–2; views about light 44–5; word acquisition 41–2 see also teenagers class see social class clauses 99–100, 149–53, 157–8 coda 112 code: restricted 132; switching 87 coffee 50, 80, 81 cognitive statements 124, 126–7 cohesive devices 159–61 collocational patterns 29, 30 committee meetings 11, 12 communication: grammar in 9, 149–61 complement 33 compound nouns 30 conflict 113 conjunctions 160 connection building 86, 94, 133–4

526 citations


Book
01 Aug 2004
TL;DR: In this paper, a micro-ethnographic approach to discourse analysis of classroom language and literacy events is presented, focusing on how people use language and other systems of communication in constructing classroom events with attention to social, cultural, and political processes.
Abstract: The authors present a social linguistic/social interactional approach to the discourse analysis of classroom language and literacy events. Building on recent theories in interactional sociolinguistics, literary theory, social anthropology, critical discourse analysis, and the New Literacy Studies, they describe a microethnographic approach to discourse analysis that provides a reflexive and recursive research process that continually questions what counts as knowledge in and of the interactions among teachers and students. The approach combines attention to how people use language and other systems of communication in constructing classroom events with attention to social, cultural, and political processes. The focus of attention is on actual people acting and reacting to each other, creating and recreating the worlds in which they live. One contribution of the microethnographic approach is to highlight the conception of people as complex, multi-dimensional actors who together use what is given by culture, language, social, and economic capital to create new meanings, social relationships and possibilities, and to recreate culture and language. The approach presented by the authors does not separate methodological, theoretical, and epistemological issues. Instead, they argue that research always involves a dialectical relationship among the object of the research, the theoretical frameworks and methodologies driving the research, and the situations within which the research is being conducted. Discourse Analysis and the Study of Classroom Language and Literacy Events: A Microethnographic Perspective: *introduces key constructs and the intellectual and disciplinary foundations of the microethnographic approach; *addresses the use of this approach to gain insight into three often discussed issues in research on classroom literacy events--classroom literacy events as cultural action, the social construction of identity, and power relations in and through classroom literacy events; *presents transcripts of classroom literacy events to illustrate how theoretical constructs, the research issue, the research site, methods, research techniques, and previous studies of discourse analysis come together to constitute a discourse analysis; and *discusses the complexity of "locating" microethnographic discourse analysis studies within the field of literacy studies and within broader intellectual movements. This volume is of broad interest and will be widely welcomed by scholars and students in the field language and literacy studies, educational researchers focusing on analysis of classroom discourse, educational sociolinguists, and sociologists and anthropologists focusing on face-to-face interaction and language use.

480 citations


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TL;DR: The author explores one approach to discourse analysis and examines how it offers possibilities for different ways of viewing health and health care practices, and raises questions as to whether discourse analysis is at the margins of qualitative research, whether that matters, and where discourse analysis might take those margins.
Abstract: Discourse analysis is a qualitative research approach that offers the potential to challenge our thinking about aspects of the reality of health and health care practice. In this article, the author explores one approach to discourse analysis and examines how it offers possibilities for different ways of viewing health and health care practices. She concludes by raising questions as to whether discourse analysis is at the margins of qualitative research, whether that matters, and where discourse analysis might take those margins.

418 citations


Book
01 Jan 2004
TL;DR: The authors provide a comprehensive introduction to the main research methods employed in the study of politics, an assessment of their strengths and limitations, and an account of their relationship to the evolution of the discipline of political science.
Abstract: This major new text provides a comprehensive introduction to the main research methods employed in the study of politics, an assessment of their strengths and limitations, and an account of their relationship to the evolution of the discipline of political science. Illustrated throughout with boxed examples of real political research, the book ranges widely from substantial coverage of statistical methods to the use of archives, interviews, discourse analysis and the internet.Two concluding chapters cover ethical issues and the relationship between theories and methods with a special emphasis on combining traditions and approaches.

388 citations


Book
01 Jan 2004
TL;DR: Bhatia as discussed by the authors explores the tension between the real world of written discourse and its representation in applied genre-based literature, using examples from a range of situations including advertising, business, academia, economics, law, book introductions, reports, media and fundraising.
Abstract: Genre theory in the past few years has contributed immensely to our understanding of the way discourse is used in academic, professional and institutional contexts. However, its development has been constrained by the nature and design of its applications, which have invariably focused on language teaching and learning, or communication training and consultation. This has led to the use of simplified and idealised genres. In contrast to this, the real world of discourse is complex, dynamic and unpredictable. This tension between the real world of written discourse and its representation in applied genre-based literature is the main theme of this book. The book addresses this theme from the perspectives of four rather different worlds: the world of reality, the world of private intentions, the world of analysis and the world of applications. Using examples from a range of situations including advertising, business, academia, economics, law, book introductions, reports, media and fundraising, Bhatia uses discourse analysis to move genre theory away from educational contexts and into the real world. Introduction GCo Overview: Perspectives on Discourse GCo The World of Reality GCo The World of Private Intentions GCo The World of Analysis GCo The World of Applications GCo References

347 citations


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TL;DR: The authors explored the possibilities of using Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) in critical policy research in education, drawing on a larger research project which is investigating the equity implications of Education Queensland's reform agenda.
Abstract: A number of writers have drawn attention to the increasing importance of language in social life in ‘new times’ and Fairclough has referred to ‘discourse driven’ social change. These conditions have led to an increase in the use of various forms of discourse analysis in policy analysis. This paper explores the possibilities of using Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) in critical policy research in education, drawing on a larger research project which is investigating the equity implications of Education Queensland’s reform agenda. It is argued that, in the context of new times, CDA is of particular value in documenting multiple and competing discourses in policy texts, in highlighting marginalized and hybrid discourses, and in documenting discursive shifts in policy implementation processes. The last part of the paper discusses how such research might be used by policy activists inside and outside education department bureaucracies to further social democratic goals.

345 citations


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TL;DR: This paper examined how participation in the cultural practices of high school science classrooms created intrapersonal conflict for ethnic minority students, and found that students who exhibited maintenance status exhibited a commitment to maintaining their normative discourse behavior, despite a demonstrated ability to appropriate science discourse.
Abstract: This study examined how, in some instances, participation in the cultural practices of high school science classrooms created intrapersonal conflict for ethnic minority students. Discourse analysis of videotaped science classroom activities, lectures, and laboratories was the primary methodology employed for analyzing students' discursive identity development. This analysis demonstrated differential appropriation of science discourse as four significant domains of discursive identities emerged: Opposition status, Maintenance status, Incorporation status, and Proficiency status. Students characterized as Opposition Status avoided use of science discourse. Students who exhibited Maintenance Status illustrated a commitment to maintaining their normative discourse behavior, despite a demonstrated ability to appropriate science discourse. Students characterized as Incorporation Status made active attempts to incorporate science discourse into their normative speech patterns, while Proficiency Status students demonstrated a fluency in applying scientific discursive. Implications for science education emerging from the study include the illumination of the need to make the use of specific scientific discourse an explicit component of classroom curriculum. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Res Sci Teach 41: 810–834, 2004

338 citations


Journal Article
TL;DR: The case for studying how people navigate across contexts of socialization in the locality of the nation-state and the virtual environments of the Internet to articulate new ways of using English is made.
Abstract: This paper considers how global practices of English on the Internet intersect with local practices of English in the territorial or national sphere in constructing the language experiences of immigrant learners. Using a multi-contextual approach to language socialization, this paper examines the social and discursive practices in a Chinese/English bilingual chat room and how this Internet chat room provides an additional context of language socialization for two teenage Chinese immigrants in the US. Analysis of discourse, interview, and observational data reveals that a mixed-code variety of English is adopted and developed among the focal youth and their peers around the globe to construct their relationships as bilingual speakers of English and Cantonese. This language variety served to create a collective ethnic identity for these young people and allowed the girls to assume a new identity in speaking English that doesn't follow the social categories of English-speaking Americans versus Cantonese-speaking Chinese in their local American context. This paper makes the case for studying how people navigate across contexts of socialization in the locality of the nation-state and the virtual environments of the Internet to articulate new ways of using English.

315 citations


Book
01 Jan 2004
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show how persons categorized as "intellectually disabled" are produced, as such, in and through their moment-by-moment interaction with care staff and other professionals.
Abstract: Intellectual disability is usually thought of as a form of internal, individual affliction, little different from diabetes, paralysis or chronic illness. This study, the first book-length application of discursive psychology to intellectual disability, shows that what we usually understand as being an individual problem is actually an interactional, or social, product. Through a range of case studies, which draw upon ethnomethodological and conversation analytic scholarship, the book shows how persons categorized as 'intellectually disabled' are produced, as such, in and through their moment-by-moment interaction with care staff and other professionals. Mark Rapley extends and reformulates current work in disability studies and offers a reconceptualisation of intellectual disability as both a professionally ascribed diagnostic category and an accomplished - and contested - social identity. Importantly, the book is grounded in data drawn from naturally-occurring, rather than professionally orchestrated, social interaction.

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TL;DR: This article reviewed contributions from the 1970s to the present in citation classification, content analysis of citation contexts, and studies of citer motivations, and paid particular attention to ideas that bear on teaching the art of citing and controversies in citation research of interest to discourse analysts.
Abstract: John Swales's 1986 article 'Citation analysis and discourse analysis' was written by a discourse analyst to introduce citation research from other fields, mainly sociology of science, to his own discipline. Here, I introduce applied linguists and discourse analysts to citation studies from information science, a complementary tradition not emphasized by Swales. Using replicable bibliometric techniques, I show that interdisciplinary ties have grown among citation researchers from discourse analysis, sociology of science, and information science in the years since Swales wrote. Key authors, journals, articles, and books are presented in tables based on cocitation data from the Institute for Scientific Information. While theoretical integration of the different strands of research is far from complete, this article carries the effort forward by reviewing contributions from the 1970s to the present in three major lines of research: citation classification, content analysis of citation contexts, and studies of citer motivations. I pay particular attention to ideas that bear on teaching the art of citing-for example, in courses in English for research purposes-and to controversies in citation research of interest to discourse analysts.


Book
01 Mar 2004
TL;DR: The scientific reproduction of gender inequality: A discourse analysis of research texts on women's entrepreneurship is presented in this paper, where the authors focus on the reproduction of women's inequality in the context of entrepreneurship.
Abstract: The scientific reproduction of gender inequality : A discourse analysis of research texts on women's entrepreneurship


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors compare the contribution of CDA with other approaches, including economics, labour market research, gerontology and cultural studies, and show the kinds of research questions that CDA can address, which other theories grappling with identity cannot.
Abstract: Critical discourse analysis (CDA) and other forms of discourse analysis are regularly used to study identity, but rarely do researchers systematically compare and contrast them with other theories to identify exactly what a discursive approach contributes. In this paper, we take the example of a particular identity – the older worker – and systematically compare the contribution of CDA with other approaches, including economics, labour market research, gerontology and cultural studies. In so doing, we show the kinds of research questions that CDA can address, which other theories grappling with identity cannot. In this way, we hope to delineate more clearly what CDA is, to identify specifically how it contributes to the study of identity, and to show what it can do, compared to other theories. Cynthia Hardy has been Professor of Management at the University of Melbourne since 1998. Previously, she was a professor in the Faculty of Management at McGill University in Canada. Her main research interests revo...

BookDOI
13 Dec 2004
TL;DR: The authors, The Two Solitudes: Reconciling Social Psychology and Language and Social Interaction (LSI) as Subject Matter and as Multidisciplinary Confederation, introduces LSI as subject matter and as multidisciplinary confederation.
Abstract: Contents: Preface. R.E. Sanders, Introduction: LSI as Subject Matter and as Multidisciplinary Confederation. Part I: Language Pragmatics. Preface to Part I: Language Pragmatics. F. Cooren, The Contribution of Speech Act Theory to the Analysis of Conversation: How Pre-Sequences Work. R.B. Arundale, Pragmatics, Conversational Implicature, and Conversation. Part II: Conversation Analysis. Preface to Part II: Conversation Analysis. P. Drew, Conversation Analysis. J. Heritage, Conversation Analysis and Institutional Talk. A. Pomerantz, J. Mandelbaum, Conversation Analytic Approaches to the Relevance and Uses of Relationship Categories in Interaction. Part III: Language and Social Psychology. Preface to Part III: Language and Social Psychology. J.B. Bavelas, The Two Solitudes: Reconciling Social Psychology and Language and Social Interaction. J.J. Bradac, H. Giles, Language and Social Psychology: Conceptual Niceties, Complexities, Curiosities, Monstrosities, and How It All Works. C. Gallois, S. McKay, J. Pittam, Intergroup Communication and Identity: Intercultural, Organizational, and Health Communication. Part IV: Discourse Analysis. Preface to Part IV: Discourse Analysis. D. Edwards, Discursive Psychology. S. Blum-Kulka, Rethinking Genre: Discursive Events as a Social Interactional Phenomenon. K. Tracy, Reconstructing Communicative Practices: Action-Implicative Discourse Analysis. Part V: Ethnography of Communication. Preface to Part V: Ethnography of Communication. W. Leeds-Hurwitz, Ethnography. G. Philipsen, L. Coutu, The Ethnography of Speaking. J. Streeck, S. Mehus, Microethnography: The Study of Practices. Part VI: Extensions of Technology. Preface to Part VI: Extensions of Technology. M. Aakhus, S. Jackson, Technology, Interaction, and Design. I. Hutchby, Conversation Analysis and the Study of Broadcast Talk. K.L. Fitch, Conclusion: Behind the Scenes of Language and Scholarly Interaction.

01 Jan 2004
TL;DR: For instance, the authors argue that the way in which power relations structure, constrain, and produce systems of meaning is a fundamental concern of DA and Laffey and Weldes' concept of interpellation.
Abstract: Power The last issue to consider in the difference between DA and CA is the way that each addresses issues of power and hierarchy. The way in which power relations structure, constrain, and produce systems of meaning is a fundamental concern of DA. Laffey and Weldes’ concept of interpellation specificallyaddresses this through the investigation of subject positions, i.e. identities and power hierarchies. Similarly, in outlining DA methodology, Crawford argues that researchers must identify specific beliefs of dominant actors for a particular context. All other contributors to the DA discussion similarly note the importance of power considerations in DA. This concern should be acknowledged as a core contribution of DA, but we may still question whether power is exclusively the concern of DA, or whether power considerations could be integrated into CA and other types of qualitative or quantitative methodologies.

Book
01 Feb 2004
TL;DR: In this paper, Van Leeuwen et al. present a series of reasons why linguists should pay attention to visual communication, including the influence of space and layout in making meaning.
Abstract: 1. Multimodal Discourse Analysis as the Confluence of Discourse and TechnologyRon Scollon and Philip LeVine 2. Ten Reasons Why Linguists Should Pay Attention to Visual CommunicationTheo Van Leeuwen 3. The Problem of Context in Computer Mediated CommunicationRodney H. Jones 4. "The Way to Write a Phone Call": Multimodality in Novices' Use and Perceptions of Interactive Written Discourse (IWD)Angela Goddard 5. Trying on Voices: Using Questions to Establish Authority, Identity, and Recipient Design in Electronic DiscourseBoyd Davis and Peyton Mason 6. Mock Taiwanese-Accented Mandarin in the Internet Community in Taiwan: The Interaction between Technology, Linguistic Practice, and Language IdeologiesHsi-Yao Su 7. Materiality in Discourse: The Influence of Space and Layout in Making MeaningIngrid de Saint-Georges 8. The Multimodal Negotiation of Service EncountersLaurent Filliettaz 9. Multimodal Discourse Analysis: A Conceptual FrameworkSigrid Norris 10. Files, Forms, and Fonts: Mediational Means and Identity Negotiation in Immigration InterviewsAlexandra Johnston 11. Modalities of Turn-Taking in Blind/Sighted Interaction: Better to Be Seen and Not Heard?Elisa Everts 12. "Informed Consent" and Other Ethical Conundrums in Videotaping InteractionsElaine K. Yakura 13. The Moral Spectator: Distant Suffering in September 11th Live FootageLilie Chouliaraki 14. Ethnography of Language in the Age of Video: "Voices" as Multimodal Constructions in Some Contexts of Religious and Clinical AuthorityJoel Kuipers 15. Multimodality and New Communication TechnologiesCarey Jewitt 16. Origins: A Brief Intellectual and Technological History of the Emergence of Multimodal Discourse AnalysisFrederick Erickson 17. Studying WorkscapesMarilyn Whalen and Jack Whalen with Robert Moore, Geoff Raymond, Margaret Szymanski, and Erik Vinkhuyzen

Book
15 Oct 2004
TL;DR: You Know My Steez is the culmination of nearly four years of direct study and hands-on experience by a teacher-researcher and active community member in the working-class suburb of Sunnyside, California.
Abstract: You Know My Steez is the culmination of nearly four years of direct study and hands-on experience by a teacher-researcher and active community member in the working-class suburb of Sunnyside, California. Focusing on the language and linguistic practices of students at Haven High School, an ethnically and linguistically diverse school, the author examines both the internal linguistic constraints and the external social constraints (race, gender, and cultural literacy, among others) that shape speech styles, particularly amongst Black male and female hip hoppers. Contributing to the development of a more refined methodological approach to the study of linguistic styleshifting, the author integrates the study of sociolinguistic variation, interactional analysis (the use of discourse analysis to examine the implicit rules and roles that govern social interaction), and ethnographic fieldwork to develop a deeper understanding of how, when, and why speakers shift their styles.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that there is a need to develop theoretically informed research approaches to study how this type of assessment is accomplished through teacher-student discourse in the classroom, using data collected in two multiethnic and multilingual elementary classrooms.
Abstract: There is now widely recognized support for classroom-based formative teacher assessment of student performance as a pedagogically desirable approach to assessment which is capable of promoting learning. However, the highly localized and socially co-constructed nature of this type of assessment has raised conceptual and research issues that transcend the theoretical and epistemological concerns of the more established standardized language assessment. One such issue concerns the part played by classroom spoken discourse in the teaching-assessment interaction between teachers and students. This article argues that there is a need to develop theoretically informed research approaches to study how this type of assessment is accomplished through teacher-student discourse in the classroom. Using data collected in two multiethnic and multilingual elementary classrooms we present an analysis, drawing on systemic functional linguistics, to suggest an approach to empirical research and to discuss a number of teachi...

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the disciplines of Translation Studies and Political Discourse Analysis (PDA) can benefit from closer cooperation and present examples of authentic translations of political texts from the point of view of translation.
Abstract: Political discourse very often relies on translation. Political Discourse Analysis (PDA), however, has not yet taken full account of the phenomenon of translation. This paper argues that the disciplines of Translation Studies (TS) and PDA can benefit from closer cooperation. It starts by presenting examples of authentic translations of political texts, commenting on them from the point of view of TS. These examples concern political effects caused by specific translation solutions; the processes by which information is transferred via translation to another culture; and the structure and function of equally valid texts in their respective cultures. After a brief survey of the discipline of Translation Studies, the paper concludes with outlining scope for interdisciplinary cooperation between PDA and TS. This is illustrated with reference to an awareness of product features, multilingual texts, process analysis, and the politics of translation.

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TL;DR: The authors assesses the contributions that discourse analysis and organizational discourse theory can make to our understanding of organization and organizing, by clarifying the theoretical assumptions that underpin this work, especially its social constructivist credentials, and showing the potential of this methodology.
Abstract: This paper assesses the contributions that discourse analysis and organizational discourse theory can make to our understanding of organization and organizing. By clarifying the theoretical assumptions that underpin this work, especially its social constructivist credentials, it is possible to show the potential of this methodology. A discursive approach can help answer a series of questions that interest organizational theorists: the constitution question of how local interactions develop organizing properties; the scaling-up question concerning the identification of characteristics that imbue certain texts and their authors with agency; as well as how grand discourses bear down on organizational life and how practices of consumption relate to acts of resistance.

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TL;DR: This paper surveys work on applying the insights of lexicalized grammars to low-level discourse, to show the value of positing an autonomous grammar for low- level discourse in which words are associated with discourse-level predicate–argument structures or modification structures that convey their syntactic-semantic meaning and scope.

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TL;DR: This article examined the role of discourse and nonverbal elements related to the use of language in the process of group knowledge construction of mechanical engineering students and identified themes related to an engineering Discourse, which included participants' assumptions about the purpose of group work, the views about effective groups, and their epistemologies.
Abstract: This qualitative study examined the role of discourse (verbal elements of language) and Discourse (nonverbal elements related to the use of language, such as ways of thinking, valuing, and using tools and technologies) in the process of group knowledge construction of mechanical engineering students. Data included interviews, participant observations, and transcripts from lab sessions of a group of students working on their senior design project. These data were analyzed using discourse analysis focusing on instances of concept negotiation, interaction in which multiple people contribute to the evolving conceptual conversation. In this context, despite instructors' attempts to enhance the collaboration of group members, concept negotiation was rare. In an effort to understand this rarity, we identified themes related to an engineering Discourse, which included participants' assumptions about the purpose of group work, the views about effective groups, and their epistemologies and ontologies. We explore how the themes associated with the engineering Discourse played a role in how and when the group engaged in concept negotiation. We found that underlying ideologies and assumptions related to the engineering Discourse played both facilitating and inhibitory roles related to the group's conceptually based interactions. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Res Sci Teach 41: 267–293, 2004

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TL;DR: For instance, the authors argues that discourse is more than an artifact or a reflection of an organization; rather it forms the foundation for organizing and for developing the notion oforganization as an entity.
Abstract: Organizational discourse analysis, as an area of research, has grown in the past decade. Most scholars posit that language, regardless of the discursive form, is critical to the very nature of an organization. This article contends that discourse is more than an artifact or a reflection of an organization; rather it forms the foundation for organizing and for developing the notion oforganization as an entity. The articles in this volume present different perspectives on the role of text and agency in contributing to the constitution of organizations. Although the concept of text has different meanings in these articles, it refers, in general, to the medium of communication, collection of interactions, and assemblages of oral and written forms. Whether influenced by interaction analysis, structuration theory, text/conversation analysis or textual agency, these essays demonstrate how textuality in all its various forms participates in the production and reproduction of organizational life.

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TL;DR: It is argued that social psychological work on national identification and mobilization would benefit from closer attention to the relationship of national categories with social constructions of place, and some wider implications are traced.
Abstract: This paper explores an accepted but under researched feature of national categories: their complex relationship with social constructions of place. We argue that social psychological work on national identification and mobilization would benefit from closer attention to this relationship. In order to develop this argument, we analyse a series of newspaper accounts published on behalf of the Countryside Alliance, a coalition formed to preserve rural 'ways of life' in the UK and, more specifically, to defend extant practices of hunting. Applying a discourse analytic method, we show how the Alliance has exploited the rhetoric of place in order to portray the preservation of hunting as an issue of national significance. By associating British identity with the 'rural idyll' of the English countryside, the organization has appealed to a place construction in which hunting and its associated activities become cast as essential expressions of the national character. Building on relevant work in geography and discursive psychology, we trace some wider implications of this process for social psychological research on category construction, reification and collective mobilization.

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TL;DR: The authors surveys critical discourse studies to the present and claims that, to avoid lapsing into comfortable orthodoxy in its mature phase, CDS needs to reassert its transformative radical teleology.
Abstract: This paper surveys critical discourse studies to the present and claims that, to avoid lapsing into comfortable orthodoxy in its mature phase, CDS needs to reassert its transformative radical teleology. The initial part of the paper reasserts the need for a strong social theory given the materialist and context-bound nature of discourse in daily activity. From this basis, the paper then characterizes the “new times” in which contemporary discourse occurs, and briefly surveys those issues typically analyzed, namely political economy, race and gender, and critical literacy. By considering people's ordinary lives, the paper then suggests that subject and agency, and calculative technologies of management deserve, and new modalities need, more research. Transdisciplinarity is encouraged, particularly with social psychology and critical management studies.

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TL;DR: This article used critical discourse analysis to demonstrate how information and communications technology (ICT) has become deeply involved in the conception and practice of socio-economic development within so-called less-developed countries (LDCs).
Abstract: This paper uses critical discourse analysis to demonstrate how information and communications technology (ICT) has become deeply involved in the conception and practice of socio-economic development within so-called less-developed countries (LDCs). A recent speech on ICT by the president of the World Bank Group is examined, which shows the role of the discourse surrounding such technologies in replicating and extending a markedly North American worldview into the developmental sphere. The ability of critical discourse analysis to expose the involvement of ICT in normalising a dominant set of political and economic assumptions confirms its usefulness as a tool within which to approach the critical study of information systems.

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TL;DR: The authors explored how literature circles work in the context of L2 instruction through a close scrutiny of classroom interactions in an adult ESL class where nine ESL learners read fictional works and discussed the readings.
Abstract: This paper explores how literature circles work in the context of L2 instruction through a close scrutiny of classroom interactions in an adult ESL class where nine ESL learners read fictional works and discussed the readings. The paper examines the characteristics of student interactions with the literary text and with other group members, focusing on how the interactions relate to the learners' L2 reading experiences and language development. Analysis of discourse of the literature discussions shows that the students developed diverse, insightful responses concerning literal comprehension, personal connections, cross-cultural themes, interpretation, and evaluation of the text. It also reveals that the students were engaged in highly dialogic social interactions in the target language. The findings suggest that the literature discussions helped the students emotionally and intellectually to participate in the literary text, generating an opportunity for enjoyable L2 reading experiences. In addition, the ...