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Posthumanism and Deconstructing Arguments: Corpora and Digitally-driven Critical Analysis presents a new and practical approach in Critical Discourse Studies. Providing a data-driven and ethically-based method for the examination of arguments in the public sphere, this ground-breaking book:
- Highlights how the reader can evaluate arguments from points of view other than their own;
- Demonstrates how digital tools can be used to generate 'ethical subjectivities' from large numbers of dissenting voices on the world-wide-web;
- Draws on ideas from posthumanist philosophy as well as from Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari for theorising these subjectivities;
- Showcases a critical deconstructive approach, using different corpus linguistic programs such as AntConc, WMatrix and Sketchengine.
Posthumanism and Deconstructing Arguments is essential reading for lecturers and researchers with an interest in critical discourse studies, critical thinking, corpus linguistics and digital humanities.
List of contents
Preface
Chapter 1 Introduction
Part A Preparing the Ground
Chapter 2 Critical thinking and pedagogical critical discourse analysis
Chapter 3 Deconstruction and Jacques Derrida's philosophy of language
Chapter 4 Corpus linguistics and digital text analysis
Part B Using big ready-made corpora to generate discursive subjectivities
Chapter 5 Discursive subjectivity
Chapter 6 Bypassing challenges of reconstruction
Part C Making corpora to generate ethical subjectivities
Chapter 7 Ethical subjectivity generated with lemmas
Chapter 8 Ethical subjectivity generated with keywords
Chapter 9 Ethical subjectivity generated rhizomatically
Part D Reflection: posthuman subjectivities and critical reading
Chapter10 Methodology
Chapter 11 Deterritorialisations
Index
About the author
Kieran O'Halloran is Reader in Applied Linguistics in the School of Education, Communication and Society at King's College London, UK.
Summary
Posthumanism and Deconstructing Arguments presents a new and practical approach in Critical Discourse Studies, providing a data-driven method for the examination of arguments in the public sphere. This ground-breaking book shows how the reader can evaluate arguments from points of view other than their own, using digital
