Selves, bodies and the grammar of social worlds : reimagining social change

CLARK, Jodie (2016). Selves, bodies and the grammar of social worlds : reimagining social change. Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse . London, Palgrave.

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Abstract

This book is an invitation to researchers who are committed to social change to look for ideas about transformation in an unexpected place – that is, in the data generated from empirical research. Informed by Critical Discourse Analysis and postmodern theory, it proposes a method of locating, through close grammatical analysis of everyday descriptions of the social world, the desire for alternative transformative structures. Drawing upon insightful analysis of conversational data collected over a period of 12 years from both ‘marginalised’ and ‘mainstream’ participants, it reveals innovative ways of imagining social structure. Clark proposes a view of the social world as in an embodied relationship with embodied selves.

Item Type: Authored Book
Uncontrolled Keywords: Critical Discourse Analysis, postmodernism, social theory, feminism, Queer theory, Foucault, Butler, Irigaray, Systemic Functional Linguistics, grammar, conversation
Research Institute, Centre or Group - Does NOT include content added after October 2018: Humanities Research Centre
Departments - Does NOT include content added after October 2018: Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities > Department of Humanities
Depositing User: Jodie Clark
Date Deposited: 06 Apr 2018 08:06
Last Modified: 18 Mar 2021 15:19
URI: https://shura.shu.ac.uk/id/eprint/18826

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