A good starting point to understand the method of "discourse analysis" is :
http://www.gslis.utexas.edu/~palmquis/courses/discourse.htm
There you ll find the following sentences, which characterize the method and show how discourse analysis can help to deconstruct a problem:
"Discourse Analysis will enable to reveal the hidden motivations behind a text or behind the choice of a particular method of research to interpret that text. Expressed in today's more trendy vocabulary, Critical or Discourse Analysis is nothing more than a deconstructive reading and interpretation of a problem or text...
Discourse Analysis will, thus, not provide absolute answers to a specific problem, but enable us to understand the conditions behind a specific "problem" and make us realize that the essence of that "problem", and its resolution, lie in its assumptions; the very assumptions that enable the existence of that "problem". "
http://www.gslis.utexas.edu/~palmquis/courses/discourse.htm
There you ll find the following sentences, which characterize the method and show how discourse analysis can help to deconstruct a problem:
"Discourse Analysis will enable to reveal the hidden motivations behind a text or behind the choice of a particular method of research to interpret that text. Expressed in today's more trendy vocabulary, Critical or Discourse Analysis is nothing more than a deconstructive reading and interpretation of a problem or text...
Discourse Analysis will, thus, not provide absolute answers to a specific problem, but enable us to understand the conditions behind a specific "problem" and make us realize that the essence of that "problem", and its resolution, lie in its assumptions; the very assumptions that enable the existence of that "problem". "
age_man_eight - am Mi, 27. Juli 2005, 16:53
