Analyzing Everyday Texts: Discourse, Rhetoric, and Social Perspectives: 3 (Rhetoric and Society series) - Softcover

Stillar, Glenn F.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0761900616 ISBN 13: 9780761900610

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 1998

Synopsis

Increasingly, scholars in language studies, sociology, media studies, cultural studies, communication, and other disciplines are turning to the analysis of everyday texts to understand how they shape and are shaped by social relationships, structures, and systems in various communities. Analyzing Everyday Texts provides a comprehensive and well-illustrated framework for the analysis of everyday texts by outlining and integrating three different perspectives: discoursal, rhetorical, and social. First, the tools of each perspective are carefully explicated in chapters on the resources of discoursal, rhetorical, and social theory. These three perspectives are then brought together in extensive analyses of various everyday texts. Finally, the book examines on the principles and consequences of conducting theoretically informed critical textual analysis. This book will be a valuable resource for researchers analyzing everyday texts and for scholars teaching theories and methods of analysis.

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Synopsis

This book describes the resources which can be drawn from discourse analysis, rhetorical theory and soci al theory and also provides a comprehensive and well-illustr ated framework for the analysis of everyday texts. '

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0761900616
• ISBN 13: 9780761900610
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 216