Tracking Discourses: Politics, Identity and Social Change - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9185509396 ISBN 13: 9789185509393

Publisher: Nordic Academic Press, 2011

Synopsis

Written by researchers from a wide variety of disciplines, this report explores the two most influential theoretical discourse traditions, namely Discourse Theory and Critical Discourse Analysis. Based on numerous Swedish and Scandinavian case studies, this account reveals the usefulness of the study of discourse and exemplifies how the two discourse analytical perspectives can be combined to offer diverse and problem-oriented strategies in the study of politics, identity, and social change.

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About the Author:

Annika Egan Sjölander is a senior lecturer in media and communication studies at Umea University in Sweden and a former visiting research fellow at the University of Lancaster in the United Kingdom. Jenny Gunnarsson Payne is a lecturer in sociology at the University of Essex in the United Kingdom and is a postdoctoral fellow in the department of ethnology, gender studies, and history of religions at Stockholm University in Sweden.

About this edition

• Publisher: Nordic Academic Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 9185509396
• ISBN 13: 9789185509393
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 368
• Editor: Sjölander Annika Egan, Payne Jenny Gunnarsson