Discourse studies and the articulation of reflexivity and critique
(2016) 17th DiscourseNet Conference: Reflexivity and Critique in Discourse — Location: Universidad de Navarra (16.March.2016)
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- This opening lecture to for the 17th DiscourseNet conference on Reflexivity and Critique in Discourse asks what place(s) discourse scholars should accord to the study of reflexivity and critique in the transdisciplinary field of discourse studies. It argues that the theories of reflexivity and reflexive phenomena come in many guises. In linguistics, socio-linguistics, the ethnography of communication and linguistic pragmatics, reflexivity is more commonly treated under the headers of poetics, metalinguistics, metapragmatics, or metadiscourse. The idea is not so much that interlocutors can occupy a meta-position outside of language, communication or discourse, but rather that the resources that allow us to communicate, also allow for communication about communication itself (Hyland 2005, Meinhof 2004, Bublitz and Hübler 2007, Caffi 1998, Hübler 2011, Verschueren 2004, Coupland and Jaworski 2004, Nazaruk 2011). Without this principle, no analysis – and certainly no critical discourse theory or analysis – would be possible. One might even argue that the social – and therefore the political – would cease to exist without it (Zienkowski 2014, 2015). This opening lecture makes a sketch of existing approaches and suggests some pathways for future investigation.
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Zienkowski, J. (2016). Discourse studies and the articulation of reflexivity and critique. 17th DiscourseNet Conference: Reflexivity and Critique in Discourse, Universidad de Navarra. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/93482