Mediated Discourse - The Nexus of Practice

Informationen zum Autor Ron Scollon is Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University, USA. Klappentext Mediated Discourse: The Nexus of Practice sets out a discursive theory of human action.Language and action are intimately related. The difficult question to answer is how they are related. Mediated Discourse Theory looks into social relationships to see how the use of language is both a form of action in itself and is also indirectly related to all other forms of human action.Through the empirical study of a one year old child learning to exchange objects with caregivers, Scollon challenges the commonly held claim that all practices are represented in discourse and that all discourse has the function of structuring practice.Calling upon work in interactional sociolinguistics, critical discourse analysis, anthropological linguistics, sociocultural psychology, and intercultural communication, the Mediated Discourse Theory set out in this book resolves current problematic issues such as how practices are learned across the boundaries of groups and how individuals come to be socialized as social actors. Zusammenfassung Language and action are intimately related. The difficult question to answer is how. Looks at how use of language is both a form of action in itself and is also indirectly related to all other forms of human action. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface 1 Mediated discourse: a discursive theory of human action 2 On the ontogenesis of a social practice 3 On the ontogenesis of a social actor: from object to agency in baby talk 4 Objects as mediational means: the crayon appropriates a child 5 The nexus of practice 6 Mediated discourse as a nexus of practice

Product details

• Authors: Ron Scollon, Ron (Georgetown University Scollon, Ronald Scollon
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.04.2001
• EAN: 9780415248839
• ISBN: 978-0-415-24883-9
• No. of pages: 196
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Adult education class / course materials (language); Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Discourse Analysis, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Literature: history & criticism, Language teaching theory and methods, Language teaching and learning, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Literature: history and criticism, Language teaching & learning (other than ELT), Applied linguistics for ELT