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A Cultural Approach to DiscourseDiscourse and Reality

A Cultural Approach to Discourse: Discourse and Reality [Any theory of language, communication or discourse will carry with it some underlying assumption about how it is related to the world. In philosophical terms, it will take a certain epistemological stance. It is hard to imagine a theory of human speech that does not have some assumption about how the world, hence knowledge of it, is accessed and how the access is related to language. So I will begin this book with an epistemologically oriented account of linguistic communication. The specific view that I will develop in this chapter is, put simply, that linguistic communication or discourse is not separable from the world or reality, but can be seen as thoroughly constitutive of it. I shall call this perspective the reality-constitutive view.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Cultural Approach to DiscourseDiscourse and Reality

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Palgrave Macmillan UK
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© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2005
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978-0-230-57762-6
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13 –41
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10.1057/9780230505391_2
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[Any theory of language, communication or discourse will carry with it some underlying assumption about how it is related to the world. In philosophical terms, it will take a certain epistemological stance. It is hard to imagine a theory of human speech that does not have some assumption about how the world, hence knowledge of it, is accessed and how the access is related to language. So I will begin this book with an epistemologically oriented account of linguistic communication. The specific view that I will develop in this chapter is, put simply, that linguistic communication or discourse is not separable from the world or reality, but can be seen as thoroughly constitutive of it. I shall call this perspective the reality-constitutive view.]

Published: Jan 8, 2007

Keywords: Military Action; Discursive Practice; Discursive Construction; Representationalist Model; Linguistic Communication

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