Overview
- Offers a systematic theoretical foundation for what critique means for the practice of discourse analysis
- Explores the relationship between empirical research, poststructuralist discourse analysis and critical theory
- Demonstrates how empirical discourse research can be used to develop normative critique of societies
Part of the book series: Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse (PSDS)
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“The author acknowledges the ambition of the task as ‘there is no easy way to perform social critique’ (p. 195). The book does not shy from difficulty … . The tone islively, personal (with the regular use of first and second personal pronouns) and the reader is regularly challenged … . The reader thus feels involved in the questioning and probing of key texts and methodologies in the search for better and more time-relevant ways to be critical.” (Christine Penman, Language and Intercultural Communication, Vol. 18 (06), 2018)
“In this excellent book Benno Herzog fully engages with issues of critique in discourse research, bringing into dialogue critical recognition theory and sociological discourse analysis. The author shows precisely and with great argumentative care, that contemporary recognition theory has to gain much by using tools of discourse analysis, and that discourse analysis profits from recognition theory in order to pursue issues of critique far beyond narrow traditions of critique in the field of discourse studies.” (Reiner Keller, Professor, University of Augsburg, Germany)
“What does it mean to be critical today? By drawing on European social theorists such as Karl Marx, Theodor W. Adorno and Michel Foucault, Benno Herzog invites us to address the social and political problems of our times and to think society against itself. This book makes a vigorous case for using discourse analysis in Critical Theory. Intellectually brilliant and highly readable!” (Johannes Angermuller, Professor, University Warwick, UK)
“This is an interesting and relevant study which showcases importance of systematic critique in contemporary discourse analysis as a method of critical social research. A good addition to the growing body of work in interdisciplinary discourse analysis where questions of critique and critical analysis have often been mentioned yet rarely attended to in great detail This book adds new perspectives and avenues of thinking. It broadens the existent literature in, inter alia, Critical Discourse Studies.” (Michal Krzyzanowski, Professor, Örebro University, Sweden)
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Book Title: Discourse Analysis as Social Critique
Book Subtitle: Discursive and Non-Discursive Realities in Critical Social Research
Authors: Benno Herzog
Series Title: Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56908-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-84930-7Published: 19 November 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-56908-0Published: 21 October 2016
Series ISSN: 2946-5990
Series E-ISSN: 2946-6008
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 203
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Discourse Analysis, Sociolinguistics, Cultural and Media Studies, general, Social Theory, Literary Theory, Semantics