Keller Doing Discourse Research

An Introduction for Social Scientists
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4462-7192-6
Verlag: SAGE Publications
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 242 mm

This book provides an introduction to the basic principles of discourse research, offering practical research strategies for doing discourse analyses in the social sciences. The book includes guidance on developing a research question, selecting data and analyzing it, and presenting the results. The author has extensive practical experience in the field of discourse research and shows, throughout, how the methods suggested are compatible with numerous research questions and problems in sociology, cultural, political and social studies and related disciplines.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Keller, Reiner

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Empirische Sozialforschung, Statistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The Current Relevance of Discourse Research Preamble Collective Orders of Knowledge and Discourses Approaches in Discourse Research The History of the Term 'Discourse' Discourse Analysis Discourse Linguistics and (Corpus-based) Critical Discourse Analysis and Kritische Diskursanalyse Culturalist Discourse Research Discourse Theories Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse Further Disciplinary Developments Summary The Research Process Concepts Questions General Foundations Doing Discourse Research Getting Started The Exploration of the Field of Investigation Selection of Data Other Data Formats and Methods The Detailed Analysis of Data The Situational and Material Nature of a Statement Formal and Linguistic-Rhetorical Structure The Interpretative Analytics of Contents From Detailed Analysis to Overall Results From Utterances via Statements to Discourse and Beyond Interpretation and Presentation of Results Concluding Remarks

Über Autor(innen)

Keller, Reiner
Reiner Keller (Dr. Phil) is Professor of Sociology at Augsburg University (Germany) since 2011. He was a member of the executive board of the German sociological association from 2015 to 2019 and chaired its sociology of knowledge section from 2011 to 2016. Currently, he is a codirector of the Jakob Fugger Center for Transnational Studies at Augsburg university and coeditor of the Journal for Discourse Research. His research centres on sociology of knowledge and culture, discourse studies, sociological theory, qualitative methods, risk and environment, and French sociology. He has published extensively in these areas. Keller received the German sociological association's best textbook in sociology award in 2013–2014 for "The Interpretive Paradigm." Further books include monographies on waste policy discourses in France and Germany, the sociology of knowledge approach to discourse, Michel Foucault. See http://www.uni-augsburg.de/keller and http://kellersskad.blogspot.de