Selves, Bodies And The Grammar Of Social Worlds: Reimagining Social Change (postdisciplinary Studies In Discourse)
by Jodie Clark /
2016 / English / PDF
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This book is an invitation to researchers who are committed to
social change to look for ideas about transformation in an
unexpected place – that is, in the data generated from empirical
research. Informed by Critical Discourse Analysis and postmodern
theory, it proposes a method of locating, through close grammatical
analysis of everyday descriptions of the social world, the desire
for alternative transformative structures. Drawing upon insightful
analysis of conversational data collected over a period of 12 years
from both ‘marginalised’ and ‘mainstream’ participants, it reveals
innovative ways of imagining social structure. Clark proposes a
view of the social world as in an embodied relationship with
embodied selves.
This book is an invitation to researchers who are committed to
social change to look for ideas about transformation in an
unexpected place – that is, in the data generated from empirical
research. Informed by Critical Discourse Analysis and postmodern
theory, it proposes a method of locating, through close grammatical
analysis of everyday descriptions of the social world, the desire
for alternative transformative structures. Drawing upon insightful
analysis of conversational data collected over a period of 12 years
from both ‘marginalised’ and ‘mainstream’ participants, it reveals
innovative ways of imagining social structure. Clark proposes a
view of the social world as in an embodied relationship with
embodied selves.
