1st Edition

Critical Discourse Studies and/in Communication Theories, Methodologies, and Pedagogies at the Intersections

Edited By Susana Martínez Guillem, Christopher Toula Copyright 2020
122 Pages
by Routledge

122 Pages
by Routledge

122 Pages
by Routledge

This book argues for an inherent connection between Critical Discourse Studies and Communication Studies. The volume begins with a comprehensive introduction that documents the shift towards Critical Discourse Studies in the study of socio-discursive phenomena, as well as its implications in terms of theories, methodologies, and objects of study within and beyond Communication. The diverse... Read more
Introduction: Critical Discourse Studies and/in communication: theories, methodologies, and pedagogies at the intersections, Susana Martínez Guillem & Christopher M. Toula
1. Why critique should not run out of steam: a proposal for the critical study of discourse, Mariaelena Bartesaghi & Kate Pantelides
2. Critical Discourse Analysis and the challenges and opportunities of social media, Gwen Bouvier & David Machin
3. Progressing Positive Discourse Analysis and/in Critical Discourse Studies: reconstructing resistance through progressive discourse analysis, Jessica M. F. Hughes
4. Critical Discourse Analysis and the ecological turn in intercultural communication, Etsuko Kinefuchi
5. Discourses of the wound and desire for the Other: remembrances of the Katyń massacre and the Smoleńsk crash, Jolanta A. Drzewiecka & Marouf Hasian

Biography

Susana Martínez Guillem is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism at the University of New Mexico, USA. She draws on discourse studies and cultural studies to study the ideological dimensions of institutional, mediated, and everyday practices in relation to immigration, place, space, social movements, (anti)racism, multilingualism, and their connection to material conditions.

Christopher M. Toula is Assistant Professor in the Department of Mass Communication at Sam Houston State University, USA. He uses rhetorical and discourse analytic methods to study international communication, especially state-based public diplomacy and strategic narratives concerning economics. He also studies and teaches communication law and intellectual property.