196 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
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Mediated Discourse: The Nexus of Practice sets out a discursive theory of human action. Language and action are intimately related. The difficult question to answer is how they are related. Mediated Discourse Theory looks into social relationships to see how the use of language is both a form of action in itself and is also indirectly related to all other forms of human action. Through the... Read more
Preface 1 Mediated discourse: a discursive theory of human action 2 On the ontogenesis of a social practice 3 On the ontogenesis of a social actor: from object to agency in baby talk 4 Objects as mediational means: the crayon appropriates a child 5 The nexus of practice 6 Mediated discourse as a nexus of practice
Biography
Ron Scollon is Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University, USA.
