Discourses from Latin America and the Caribbean

Discourses from Latin America and the Caribbean

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  • Author: Eleonora Esposito
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 3319936239
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 302

This edited collection brings together the latest research on discourse and society in Latin America and Caribbean in one volume. Employing cross-cutting approaches to current political, institutional and media discourses, it bridges existing theoretical and analytical gaps between the socio-political macro issues and the micro aspects of linguistic analysis to provide fresh insights that deconstruct the complex socio-political power dynamics in Latin America and the Caribbean. Across eight chapters this volume explores the regions’ thorny relationship with their complex histories of colonialism and slavery as well as the ongoing, multifaceted constructions of hegemonic and counter-hegemonic identities at the individual, regional and national levels. In doing so, it demonstrates the unique and rich particularities of these regions and why it is that they challenge many conventional dogmas and methods across the Social Sciences. This book will be of particular interest to scholars working in Discourse Studies, Sociology, Politics, Anthropology and Latin American and Caribbean Studies.


Psychoanalysis as Social and Political Discourse in Latin America and the Caribbean

Psychoanalysis as Social and Political Discourse in Latin America and the Caribbean

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  • Author: Paola Bohórquez
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1000592014
  • Category : Political Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 209

This book offers a regional, intersectional, and transnational perspective of psychoanalysis in Latin America and the Caribbean that illuminates psychoanalysis's role as social and political discourse through a collection of original interventions in the fields of psychoanalysis, cultural studies, psychology, anthropology, health sciences, history, and philosophy. The authors contribute to discussions about the applicability of psychoanalytic concepts to reading Latin American and Caribbean sociopolitical phenomona as well as how these regionally specific dimensions challenge and transform traditional psychoanalytic notions. Firstly, the book offers a regional overview of psychoanalysis as a discourse that reflects on the imbrication between the psychic and the sociopolitical. Secondly, it showcases intersectional perspectives that illuminate psychoanalysis's potentials and limitations in addressing contemporary problematics around race, gender, sexuality, and class. Finally, the book attests to the area's role in advancing psychoanalysis as a transnational discipline. By providing both a balanced regional overview and an interdisciplinary perspective, the volume will be essential for all psychoanalysts and scholars wanting to undersrand the place of psychoanalysis in Latin American and Caribbean discourse.


A provisional map of competing discourses predicating pannational and transnational identities in "Latin America" in times of globalization

A provisional map of competing discourses predicating pannational and transnational identities in

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  • Author: Daniel Mato
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Group identity
  • Languages : es
  • Pages : 24


Racism and Discourse in Spain and Latin America

Racism and Discourse in Spain and Latin America

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  • Author: Teun A. van Dijk
  • Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
  • ISBN: 9027294364
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 198

This new book extends Teun A. van Dijk’s earlier research on discursive racism to the Latin world. He presents a first inventory of elite discourse and racism in Spain and Latin America by examining discursive reactions in Spain to recent immigration, as well as age-old racism and ethnicism in text and talk in Latin America (especially Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and Chile). Through careful analysis of the media, political discourse, textbooks and other public discourses in these countries he shows that discursive euro-racism is ubiquitous also in countries outside Europe. Spain reproduces, but as yet in a less radical way, the kind of racist discourse we find elsewhere in Western Europe. In Latin America, ethnicism and racism against the indigenous peoples and against Afrolatins has prevailed in elite discourse since colonialism and slavery. This is the first integrated study of discursive racism in the Latin world and provides a useful framework for similar research.


Migration and Public Discourse in World Christianity

Migration and Public Discourse in World Christianity

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  • Author: Afe Adogame
  • Publisher: Fortress Press
  • ISBN: 1506433707
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 322

Although humans have always migrated, the present phenomenon of mass migration is unprecedented in scale and global in reach. Understanding migration and migrants has become increasingly relevant for world Christianity. This volume identifies and addresses several key topics in the discourse of world Christianity and migration. Senior and emerging scholars and researchers of migration from all regions of the world contribute chapters on central issues, including the feminization of international migration, the theology of migration, south-south migration networks, the connection between world Christianity, migration, and civic responsibility, and the complicated relationship between migration, identity and citizenship. It seeks to give voice particularly to migrant narratives as important sources for public reasoning and theology in the 21st century.


Social Movement Discourse

Social Movement Discourse

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  • Author: Teun A. van Dijk
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • ISBN: 1003820905
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 431

This is both the first systematic introduction to Discourse Studies for students and scholars of social movements and a study of discourses on the European “refugee crisis”, by leading theorist, Teun A. van Dijk. Concrete examples of different kinds of discourse are vital for the study of social movements because their activities are not limited to such well-known forms of contention as marches, occupations or strikes, but also daily discursive activities, such as meetings, assemblies, interviews, press conferences, manifestos, pamphlets, banners, graffiti, websites, blogs, social media posts and everyday talk.This book proposes that empirical analyses of these discourses should go beyond the popular but vague notion of “frame”and engage in more detailed and explicit analyses of the text and talk of social movements. This is a much-needed introduction to the most important structures of discourse and a detailed theoretical account of the notion of “solidarity” defining the Refugees Welcome movement.


Discourse in the Digital Age

Discourse in the Digital Age

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  • Author: Eleonora Esposito
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • ISBN: 1000982254
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 280

This collection makes the case for existing critical discourse analysis theory and methods to meaningfully engage with the communicative parameters, power dynamics, and technological affordances of contemporary digital spaces. This book lends a critical focus on discursive practices operating through the paradigm of social media communication, addressing the crucial interface of discourse and the participatory web with disciplinary rigour and a well-balanced focus. This volume features chapters highlighting a diverse range of methods, including multi-sited ethnography, multimodality, argumentation studies, and topic modelling, as applied to a global range of case studies to present a holistic portrait of the latest methodological and theoretical debates in this space. The collection demonstrates the many and pervasive impacts of digital mediation on established discursive practices that are (re-)shaping existing social values, practices, and demands. In so doing, the collection advocates for a new tradition in critical discourse research, one which is rigorous in accounting for both solid discursive frameworks and the evolving complexity of digital platforms, and which triangulates methodologies in order to fully make sense of contemporary discursive practices and power relations on the online–offline continuum. This collection will be of interest to students and scholars in critical discourse studies, digital communication, media studies, and anthropology.


Native South American Discourse

Native South American Discourse

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  • Author: Joel Sherzer
  • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
  • ISBN: 3110858126
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 357

Introduction / Joel Sherzer and Greg Urban -- Semiotic functions of macro-parallelism in the Shokleng origin myth / Greg Urban -- Oratory is spoken, myth is told, and song is sung, but they are all music to my ears / Anthony Seeger -- Three modes of Shavante vocal expressions : wailing, collective singing, and political oratory / Laura Graham -- Quoted dialogues in Kalapalo narrative discourse / Ellen Basso -- Report of a Kuna curing specialist : the poetics and rhetoric of an oral performance / Joel Sherzer -- Styles of Toba discourse / Harriet Klein -- Topic continutity and OVS order.


Cultures of Anti-racism in Latin America and the Caribbean

Cultures of Anti-racism in Latin America and the Caribbean

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  • ISBN: 9781908857729
  • Category : Anti-racism
  • Languages : en
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Multimodality Studies in International Contexts

Multimodality Studies in International Contexts

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  • Author: Liliana Vásquez Rocca
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • ISBN: 100382532X
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 285

This collection responds to the need for theoretically informed and methodologically grounded empirical research on the global transformations in multimodal human communication and social practices in light of recent widespread change. The volume highlights the need to expand on the established approaches--Social Semiotics, Multimodal Discourse Analysis, and Multimodal (Inter)action Analysis--by complementing them with other analytical frameworks to better understand the impact of unprecedented global challenges, such as Covid-19, on the way humans communicate and make use of meaning-making resources. Bringing together established and emergent scholars from a variety of geographical, cultural, and linguistic contexts, the collection presents studies from both the Global North and Global South, including South Africa, Latin America, Brazil, and the Caribbean, to showcase new perspectives in multimodality research. This innovative book will be of interest to students and scholars in multimodality, social semiotics, and discourse analysis.