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Textual Politics: Discourse And Social Dynamics

Textual Politics: Discourse And Social Dynamics

Lemke, Jay L.

Hardcover

Series: Critical Perspectives on Literacy and Education

LinguisticsGeneral Education

ISBN10: 0748402152
ISBN13: 9780748402151
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: Jan 18 1995
Pages: 206
Weight: 1.37
Height: 0.77 Width: 7.20 Depth: 10.38
Language: English
Texts record the meanings we make: in words, pictures and deeds, and politics chronicles our uses of power in shaping social relationships large and small. Textual politics is about meaning - the meaning we make with words and with the symbolic values of every object and action.; The book begins with an introduction which discusses the relationship between Discourse And The Notions Of Power And Ideology. These Concepts Are Then applied to major issues: the social construction of class, gender and individuality; the rhetoric of polarizing social controversies religious fundamentalism vs. gay rights; and the abuse of technical language in policy arguments educational research vs. conservative politics. The book ends with chapters which extend the theory to processes of large- scale social change and apply it to the challenges facing education and political action in the new global information century.

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