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Discourse and silencing : representation and the language of displacement /
Silencing is not only a physically coercive act. It is also an act of language involving forms of selection, representation and compliance. Discourse and Silencing weaves together theories and examples of discourse from different disciplines in order to put forward a theory of silencing in language:...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
J. Benjamins,
©2003.
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| Collection: | Discourse approaches to politics, society, and culture ;
v. 5. |
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | Silencing is not only a physically coercive act. It is also an act of language involving forms of selection, representation and compliance. Discourse and Silencing weaves together theories and examples of discourse from different disciplines in order to put forward a theory of silencing in language: that discursive systems filter, represent and displace types of knowledge into other forms of expression. Each chapter of the book analyses examples of silencing through discourse in various social and political fields. The examples cover courtroom trials, government censorship, domestic violence, m. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (viii, 315 pages) |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789027296320 9027296324 9027226954 9789027226952 158811385X 9781588113856 1282161083 9781282161085 |
| ISSN: | 1569-9463 ; |