Discourse in Action: Introducing Mediated Discourse Analysis

by Jones; Rodney H.

• ISBN13: 9780415366175
• ISBN10: 0415366178
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2005-07-13
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

From emails relating to adoption over the Internet to discussions in the airline cockpit, the spoken or written texts we produce can have significant social consequences. The area of mediated discourse analysis considers texts in their social and cultural contexts to explore the actions individuals take with texts - and the consequences of those actions. Discourse in Action: brings together the leading scholars from around the world in the area of mediated discourse analysis reveals ways in which its theory and methodology can be used in research into contemporary social situations explores real situations and draws on real data in each chapter shows how analysis of texts in their social contexts broadens our understanding of the real world Taken together, the chapters provide a comprehensive overview to the field and offer a range of current studies that address some of the most important questions facing students and researchers inlinguistics, education, communication studies and other fields.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	p. x
Preface	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Discourse as action/discourse in action	p. 3
Mediated action	p. 15
Introducing mediated action	p. 17
The rhythmic integration of action and discourse: work, the body and the earth	p. 20
You always have to land: accomplishing the sequential organization of actions to land an airliner	p. 32
Mediational means/cultural tools	p. 47
Introducing mediational means/cultural tools	p. 49
Vygotsky's two approaches to mediation	p. 52
Mediating discourses of transnational adoption on the internet	p. 62
Multimodality, genre and design	p. 73
Practice	p. 95
Introducing practice	p. 97
Mediated actions, social practices, and contextualization: a case study from service encounters	p. 100
Place, pace, and meaning: multimedia chronotopes	p. 110
Using multiple situation definitions to create hybrid activity space	p. 123
Sites of engagement	p. 137
Introducing sites of engagement	p. 139
Sites of engagement as sites of attention: time, space and culture in electronic discourse	p. 141
From anticipation to performance: sites of engagement as process	p. 155
Agency	p. 167
Introducing agency	p. 169
Agency distributed through time, space and tools: Bentham, Babbage and the census	p. 172
Habitus, social identity, the perception of male domination - and agency?	p. 183
Methodology and concluding remarks: mediated discourse analysis	p. 199
Methodological principles and new directions in MDA	p. 201
Postscript	p. 207
References	p. 210
Index	p. 226
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