Angermuller, Johannes
(2011).
| DOI (Digital Object Identifier) Link: | https://doi.org/10.1080/17447143.2011.582117 |
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Abstract
This contribution maps the complex field of discourse analysis in Germany by situating its major currents and putting them in historical perspective. In a first step, it presents the major intellectual sources, such as (post-)structuralism, pragmatism/interactionism as well as hermeneutics, which have served as a backdrop for the establishment of discourse analysis as an interdisciplinary field since the 1980s. In a second step, it takes a closer look at the intellectual conjunctures in the social sciences such as Critical Theory and systems theory before turning to the discourse analytical tendencies that have emerged since the 1980s in the light of Foucault's reception in Germany. Finally, it discusses the features of heterogeneous knowledge discourses. As against top-down studies of political discourse in France and bottom-up investigations of everyday discourse in the US, many discourse analysts in Germany focus on knowledge production as a multi-leveled process involving texts and contexts. Therefore, discourse is seen as a heterogeneous object constructed in the interplay of language, praxis and knowledge.
| Item Type: | Journal Item |
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| Copyright Holders: | 2011 Taylor & Francis |
| Keywords: | discourse analysis in Germany; social sciences; linguistics; discourse as language; praxis; knowledge; hermeneutics; interactionism; (post-)structuralism |
| Academic Unit/School: | Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS) > Languages and Applied Linguistics > Languages Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS) > Languages and Applied Linguistics Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS) |
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| Item ID: | 60863 |
| Depositing User: | Johannes Angermuller |
| Date Deposited: | 02 May 2019 13:03 |
| Last Modified: | 07 May 2019 10:34 |
| URI: | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/60863 |
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