In this paper we provide an overview of research into organizational discourse, making a tentative distinction between organizational discourse studies (emerging from organization and management theory) and organizational discourse analysis (emerging from more linguistic-oriented research)...
Keywords: organizational theory, discourse analysis, organizational research
01/2005 | Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse, Walter de GruyterThis paper is a response to Richard Andrews' ‘Models of argumentation in educational discourse’, particularly to his suggestion that argument studies should turn to ethnography to understand better how argumentation is taught, learned, and deployed...
Keywords: argumentation, discourse analysis, ethnography of communication, rhetoric, social practice, writing
01/2005 | Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse, Walter de GruyterPrevious research on oppositional discourse has pointed out the need in the turn-by-turn analysis of conflict and disagreements...
Keywords: disagreement strategies, Greek oppositional discourse, intergenerational conflict, conversation analysis, discourse analysis, interview-narratives
03/2005 | Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse, Walter de GruyterThe analyses offered in this paper attempt to elucidate some of the complex strategies that very young children use to assert power in socio-narrative activity...
Keywords: discourse analysis, visual analysis, multimodal communication, early childhood, early literacy development
05/2005 | Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse, Walter de GruyterKenneth Burke sought to understand the motives writers establish in the textual scenes they create with a ‘grammar of motives’, which positions an action in one of five motives: the act, the agent, the scene, the purpose, and the agency (means)...
Keywords: Kenneth Burke, discourse analysis, rhetorical analysis, motive analysis
01/2006 | Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse, Walter de GruyterIn contrast to the numerous corpus-based studies of pronouns in academic writing, this paper uses qualitative interviews in an attempt to account for academic writers' motivations for using the pronouns ‘I’ and ‘we’ and to describe the textual effects that each case of ‘I’ and ‘we’ helps to create...
Keywords: Academic writing, personal pronouns, political science, discourse analysis, interview-based research, persuasion
01/2007 | Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse, Walter de GruyterThis article presents a detailed exposition of Michel Pêcheux's approach to the study of the relations between language and ideology...
Keywords: discourse analysis, language and ideology, Syntactic Analysis, Text Analysis, Michel Pcheux
03/2007 | Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse, Walter de GruyterDinnertime has served as a lucrative site for the study of family discourse (e.g., Blum-Kulka 1997; Ochs and Taylor 1995)...
Keywords: family, framing, footing, discourse analysis, interactional sociolinguistics
09/2006 | Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse, Walter de GruyterThis analysis brings together Goffman's concept of alignment, Bakhtin's notion of dialogicality, and A...
Keywords: discourse analysis, intertextuality, repetition, family discourse, identity construction, mother
09/2006 | Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse, Walter de Gruyter