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Record Nr.

UNINA9910148843803321

Autore

Zienkowski Jan

Titolo

Articulations of Self and Politics in Activist Discourse : A Discourse Analysis of Critical Subjectivities in Minority Debates / / by Jan Zienkowski

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017

ISBN

3-319-40703-1

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIX, 451 p. 3 illus.)

Collana

Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse, , 2946-6008

Disciplina

401.41

Soggetti

Linguistics - Methodology

Knowledge, Sociology of

Europe - Politics and government

Germanic languages

Sociolinguistics

Pragmatics

Research Methods in Language and Linguistics

Sociology of Knowledge and Discourse

European Politics

Germanic Languages

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: Problematising Self and Politics in Activist Discourse -- Chapter 2: Discourse Theory on the Logics of Articulation, Politics and Subjectivity -- Chapter 3: The Pragmatic Dimension of Discourse as Articulation -- Chapter 4: Articulating the Problematic Of Integration in a Minority Debate -- Chapter 5: Self and Politics in Activist Discourse -- Chapter 6: Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This book focuses on the discursive processes that allow activists to make sense of themselves and of the modes of politics they engage in. It shows how political and metadiscursive awareness develop in tandem with a reconfiguration of one’s sense of self. The author offers an integrated pragmatic and poststructuralist perspective on self and subjectivity. He draws on Essex style discourse theory, early pragmatist



philosophy, and linguistic pragmatics, arguing for a notion of discourse as a multi-dimensional practice of articulation. Demonstrating the analytical power of this perspective, he puts his approach to work in an analysis of activist discourse on integration and minority issues in Flanders, Belgium. Subjects articulate a whole range of norms, values, identities and narratives to each other when they engage in political discourse. This book offers a way to analyse the logics that structure political awareness and the associated boundaries for discursive self-interpretation.