1st Edition

Posthumanism and Deconstructing Arguments Corpora and Digitally-driven Critical Analysis

By Kieran O'Halloran Copyright 2017
354 Pages
by Routledge

354 Pages
by Routledge

354 Pages
by Routledge

Posthumanism and Deconstructing Arguments: Corpora and Digitally-driven Critical Analysis presents a new and practical approach in Critical Discourse Studies. Providing a data-driven and ethically-based method for the examination of arguments in the public sphere, this ground-breaking book: Highlights how the reader can evaluate arguments from points of view other than their own;... Read more

Preface





Chapter 1 Introduction





Part A Preparing the Ground
Chapter 2 Critical thinking and pedagogical critical discourse analysis
Chapter 3 Deconstruction and Jacques Derrida’s philosophy of language
Chapter 4 Corpus linguistics and digital text analysis





Part B Using big ready-made corpora to generate discursive subjectivities
Chapter 5 Discursive subjectivity
Chapter 6 Bypassing challenges of reconstruction





Part C Making corpora to generate ethical subjectivities
Chapter 7 Ethical subjectivity generated with lemmas
Chapter 8 Ethical subjectivity generated with keywords
Chapter 9 Ethical subjectivity generated rhizomatically  



Part D Reflection: posthuman subjectivities and critical reading
Chapter10 Methodology
Chapter 11 Deterritorialisations



Index

Biography

Kieran O'Halloran is Reader in Applied Linguistics in the School of Education, Communication and Society at King's College London, UK.