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Discourse Studies is the largest, most complete, most diverse and only multidisciplinary introduction to the field. Now combined into a single volume, this essential handbook:
is fully updated from start to finish to cover contemporary debates and research literature; covers everything from grammar, narrative, argumentation, cognition and pragmatics to social, political and critical approaches; adds two new chapters on ideology and identity; puts the student at the center, offering brand new features such as worked examples, sample analyses and recommended further reading
Written and edited by world-class scholars in their fields, it is the essential, one-stop companion for any student of discourse analysis and discourse studies.
Discourse, Ethnicity and Racism
Discourse, Ethnicity and Racism
Introduction
The power of discourse in defining and shaping the realities of minoritized groups in society cannot be underestimated. Racist talk and thought are most evident in the everyday conversations and texts that the dominant society produces about minority groups. Yet in contemporary Western cultures, openly racist talk and similarly explicitly coded racist texts are taboo, often legally outlawed and socially censured. Nevertheless, borrowing a concept from Liz Kelly's (1987) work on sexual violence, it can be argued that racist talk and thought span a continuum of discursive violence, wherein subtle racism occupies one end of the continuum while the overt, far right discourse of racism inhabits the other. In this chapter, we use the tools ...
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