Discourse and silencing : representation and the language of displacement / / edited by Lynn Thiesmeyer |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, c2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (326 p.) |
Disciplina | 401/.41 |
Altri autori (Persone) | ThiesmeyerLynn |
Collana | Discourse approaches to politics, society, and culture |
Soggetto topico |
Discourse analysis
Silence Communication - Political aspects |
ISBN |
1-282-16108-3
9786612161087 90-272-9632-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Discourse and Silencing -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC page -- Dedication page -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Silencing in discourse -- Discourse and silencing across academic disciplines -- A theory of silencing -- Discourse, knowledge, and practice -- Private discourses, institutional discourses, national discourses: Silencing in the essays -- Gender and private discourses -- Law and institutional discourses -- National politics and the discourses of exclusion -- A `performative' coda to silencing: An artist's comment on social silence -- Conclusions and future directions -- Notes -- References* -- Gender and the discourses of privacy -- Introduction -- Notes -- Silencing talk of men's violence towards women -- Introduction -- The study and its context -- Men's maintenance of silence -- The woman partner's silence -- The silence of friends and family -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Conversational styles and ellipsis in Japanese couples' conversations -- Introduction -- Definition of ellipsis -- Data collection and method of analysis -- Conversational styles and ellipsis -- Ellipsis as `incomplete' -- Anticipation and interruption -- Interpretation of metamessages -- Conversational styles and social values in use of ellipsis -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Appendix: Transcription conventions -- Law and institutional discourses -- Introduction -- Notes -- Quiet in the court -- Overt silencing strategies -- The structure of testimonial narrative -- Abstract and coda -- Orientation -- Complicating action -- Evaluation -- The distribution of narrative segments -- Other narrative aspects used in silencing the witness -- Question form usage as a silencing tool -- Summary of results -- Conclusion -- References -- Telling bits -- Silencing and violence in prisons.
Research to speak through the silencing -- United States and world incarceration -- Interviewing and the discourse of crime -- Agency and positioning -- Narratives of prisoners and the possibility of a therapeutic discourse -- Claiming agency: `I shot him' -- Frame breaks -- Shifting to `you': Seeking a self, seeking a community -- Importance of `you' -- Discourse as therapeutic resource -- Notes -- References -- Appendix A: Transcription conventions -- Appendix B: Rates of incarceration for selected nations per 100,000 population -- National politics and the discourses of exclusion -- Introduction -- Notes -- Discourses of silence -- 1. Introduction -- 2. History of anti-Semitism -- 2.1. General perspectives -- 2.2. A new anti-Semitism in Austria? -- 2.3. The Waldheim Affair -- 3. Critical Discourse Analysis and discourse-historical methodology -- 3.1. Critical Discourse Analysis -- 3.2. New methods of analysing political discourse: Discourse-historical methodology -- 3.3. Data and linguistic methodology -- 4. Anti-Semitic stereotypes (prejudice content) -- 5. How are Jews labelled and categorized? -- 5.1. A hierarchy of silence, coded anti-Semitism and explicitness -- 5.2. Selective illustration of some categories of analysis -- 6. The World Jewish Congress as political synecdoche: Anti-Semitism as coded discourse -- 7. Conclusions -- Note -- References -- Silencing by law -- Introduction -- Assumptions and objectives in approaching legal and political discourse -- Situation - freedom of (controlled) speech -- What is freedom? -- The State-benefactor -- `Protection of freedom act' -- Solution - what's not allowed is prohibited -- Political vs. social -- Guaranteeing the freedom (of interpretation) -- Political texts -- Vagueness -- The act of silencing -- Conclusion: The language of distrust -- Note -- References -- Appendix. News discourse of Aboriginal resistance in Canada -- Introduction -- Theories of mainstream media and minorities -- Context of the 1995 Gustafsen Lake standoff -- Analysis of two news stories -- Context of the news story -- 1. Canadian Press -- Relevance structures -- Linguistic structures -- Thematic structures -- 2. Vancouver Sun -- Relevance structures -- Linguistic structures -- Thematic structures -- Summary -- Contextual comparisons of the two news stories -- Media resistance -- Concluding remarks -- Notes -- References -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Coda Performance discourse and meta-commentaries on silencing -- Introduction -- Notes -- Political silencing -- Introduction -- Silence and silencing in Anderson's work -- Silence and silencing in interpersonal politics -- Silence and silencing in political propaganda -- Silence and silencing as censorship -- Silence as a metaphor for loss of identity -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Notes on contributors -- Name index -- Subject index -- The series DISCOURSE APPROACHES TO POLITICS, SOCIETY AND CULTURE (DAPSAC). |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910807976503321 |
Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, c2003 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Human insecurity in East Asia [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Michio Umegaki, Lynn Thiesmeyer and Atsushi Watabe |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Tokyo ; ; New York, : United Nations University Press, c2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (303 p.) |
Disciplina | 363.3095 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
UmegakiMichio
ThiesmeyerLynn WatabeAtsushi |
Soggetto topico |
Basic needs - East Asia
Risk management - East Asia |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 92-808-7133-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction : East Asia in a human security perspective / Michio Umegaki -- pt. 1. Living with human insecurity. Embracing human insecurity : Agent Orange-Dioxin and the legacies of the war in Viet Nam / Michio Umegaki, Vu Le Thao Chi, and Tran Duc Phan -- The ageing community : human insecurity in a "developed" society / Sutoshi Watanabe -- Choice of their own, choice from their need : people on the move in rural northeast Thailand / Atsushi Watabe and Chaicharn Wongsamun -- Rural changes and ageing in human insecurity in northern Thailand / Liwa Pardthaisong-Chaipanich -- pt. 2. Intervening in human insecurity. Landlessness and development : policy purposes and policy outcomes in Southeast Asia / Lynn Thiesmeyer -- Policy coordination beyond borders : Japan-China environmental policy practices in Shenyang and Chengdu, China / Wang Xue-ping and Yoshika Sekine -- ASEAN migrant workers : from poverty to human-security-based competitiveness / Patcharawalai Wongboonsin -- Pesticide dependence in agriculture : policy for productivity and policy for security in Viet Nam / Tran Duc Vien and Pham Van Hoi -- Creating a community : ageing in urban Japan / Daisike Watanabe -- Human security practices in a highland minority project / Lynn Theismeyer and Seewigaa Kittiyoungkun -- Epilogue : research in human insecurity / Michio Umegaki. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910456366103321 |
Tokyo ; ; New York, : United Nations University Press, c2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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