Tag: Discourse

Free Download Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Audiobook)
English | January 16, 2007 | ASIN: B000MQ54BC | MP3@98 kbps | 4h 49m | 203.44 MB
Author: Neil Postman
Narrator: Jeff Riggenbach
In this eloquent and persuasive book, Neil Postman examines the deep and broad effects of television culture on the manner in which we conduct our public affairs, and how "entertainment values" have corrupted the very way we think.

Free Download James Paul Gee, "Unified Discourse Analysis: Language, Reality, Virtual Worlds and Video Games"
English | 2014 | pages: 145 | ISBN: 1138774529, 1138774510 | PDF | 1,8 mb
Discourse Analysis is becoming increasingly "multimodal", concerned primarily with the interplay of language, image and sound. Video Games allow humans to create, live in and have conversations with new multimodal worlds.

Free Download Määttä, "Ideology and Discourse: Mapping Ideology in Discourse Studies "
English | ISBN: 1501519956 | 2022 | 350 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 11 MB
Discourse and ideology are quintessential, albeit contested concepts in many functionally oriented branches of linguistics, such as linguistic anthropology, critical discourse studies, sociolinguistics, and sociology of language. With many ways of understanding and utilizing the concepts, the line between discourse and ideology can become blurry. This volume explores divergent ways in which the concept of ideology may be applied in different branches of sociolinguistics and the sociology of language, critical discourse studies, and applied linguistics. The goal is to provide an overview of the ways in which these two concepts can be used separately or together, emphasizing one or the other depending on the ways in which the concepts and their relationship are defined. The volume is targeted at scholars working in various fields of linguistics in which discourse and ideology are used as theoretical and analytical tools. While the target audience includes both senior and junior scholars, a particular goal is to reach junior scholars, who often struggle with the distinction between discourse and ideology and their theoretical and methodological potential. The volume is suitable for classroom use at the graduate level.

Free Download Bernd Steinbock, "Social Memory in Athenian Public Discourse: Uses and Meanings of the Past"
English | 2012 | pages: 424 | ISBN: 0472118323, 0472037781 | PDF | 3,2 mb
Prompted by the abundant historical allusions in Athenian political and diplomatic discourse, Bernd Steinbock analyzes the uses and meanings of the past in fourth-century Athens, using Thebes’ role in Athenian memory as a case study. This examination is based upon the premise that Athenian social memory, that is, the shared and often idealized and distorted image of the past, should not be viewed as an unreliable counterpart of history but as an invaluable key to the Athenians’ mentality. Against the tendency to view the orators’ references to the past as empty rhetorical phrases or propagandistic cover-ups for Realpolitik, it argues that the past constituted important political capital in its own right. Drawing upon theories of social memory, it contextualizes the orators’ historical allusions within the complex net of remembrances and beliefs held by the audience and thus tries to gauge their ideological and emotive power.

Free Download Analysing Chinese Language and Discourse Across Layers and Genres By Wei Wang (editor)
2020 | 245 Pages | ISBN: 902720764X | PDF | 9 MB
Aspirational and expanding, this book examines contemporary Chinese language and discourse across a spectrum of linguistic layers and genres in diverse social contexts. Addressing issues ranging from the usual focus on language per se, or language use in reaction to the immediate settings, to the connections between properties of texts and social practices (ideologies, stancetaking, power relations, etc.), the updated and exemplary research projects presented in the volume demonstrates a developing trajectory of research in Chinese language and discourse. With its empirical focus and stress on the role of language and discourse in social practice, this important new book discusses various language features as well as gender, stancetaking, and identity in Chinese discourse. This is a vital discussion for anyone interested in contemporary Chinese language and discourse studies. In examination of different layers of language (i.e. from lexical items and sentence structures to discourse features and discursive practices) across different genres of texts, the research projects have drawn on a variety of linguistic approaches and methodologies, including functional linguistics, applied linguistics, sociolinguistics and various approaches to discourse analysis. Researchers and students of Chinese linguistics, sociolinguistics, discourse studies, translation studies, and China studies in general will find this volume an indispensable reference and an enjoyable read.

Free Download Ken Hyland, "Discourse Studies Reader: Essential Excerpts "
English | ISBN: 1441179828 | 2013 | 360 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Since 2005, the Continuum Discourse series, under the

Free Download Henning Borm, "Antimonarchic Discourse in Antiquity "
English | ISBN: 351511095X | 2015 | 352 pages | PDF | 2 MB
When analyzing the character of monarchic regimes and their strategies for creating obedience and acceptance, the focus usually lies on the ruler ideology and the self-representation of the individual monarch. However, the contributions to the present volume try to approach the matter from the angle of the – real or merely anticipated – criticism against the background of which monarchic legitimization was expressed: what conditions, what elements, and what strategies were characteristic of a critical discussion of monocracy in antiquity, and to what extent was the relationship between ruler ideology and antimonarchic sentiment marked by mutual dependence? What significance did the eternal background noise possess which as a "contre-discourse" compelled rulers in Egypt, Persia, Judea, Greece and Rome to justify themselves again and again?

Free Download The Discourse on the Inexhaustible Lamp of the Zen School By Torei Enji, Daibi of Unkan, Yoko Okuda
1996 | 564 Pages | ISBN: 0804830878 | PDF | 42 MB
Based on the teachings of the great Zen Master Hakuin Zenji, The Discourse on the Inexhaustible Lamp of the Zen School is an essential guide to Rinzai Zen training. It was written by Torei Enji Zenji (1720-1792), Hakuin’s dharma successor. In this book, Master Torei begins by providing a concise history of the Rinzai school and lineage. He then details all the important aspects of Zen practice, most notably great faith, great doubt, and great determination. He also provides explanations of koan study and zazen (meditation) as a means of attaining true satori (enlightenment). This edition includes extensive commentary by Master Daibi, providing both essential background information and clarification of several Buddhist concepts unfamiliar to the general reader. The result is an invaluable record of traditional Zen training.

Free Download Elin McCready, "Discourse Particles in Asian Languages Volume I: East Asia "
English | ISBN: 1138482439 | 2023 | 196 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This is the first of two volumes of research on discourse particles focusing exclusively on the languages of Asia from the perspective of formal as well as non-formal semantics and pragmatics.

Free Download Boris Kagarlitsky, "Between Class and Discourse: Left Intellectuals in Defence of Capitalism "
English | ISBN: 0367478080 | 2020 | 204 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This provocative book addresses the ideological and political crisis of the Western left, comparing it with the problems facing leftist politics in Russia and other countries.