Discourse analysis and its possibilities

Authors
Citation
M. Akagawa, Discourse analysis and its possibilities, SOCIOL TH M, 16(1), 2001, pp. 89-102
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Sociology & Antropology
Journal title
SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY AND METHODS
ISSN journal
09131442 → ACNP
Volume
16
Issue
1
Year of publication
2001
Pages
89 - 102
Database
ISI
SICI code
0913-1442(2001)16:1<89:DAAIP>2.0.ZU;2-5
Abstract
We propose basic thesis on discourse analysis in order to establish it as o ne methods of empirical sociology. First, discourse analysts can't go outsi de of discursive space they belong to. But it doesn't make discourse analys is impossible. Second, discourse analysis suppose the totality of discursiv e space virtually. Thirdly, discourse analysts suppose the objectivity of e xistence of discourses, and they analyse the process of formations and tran sformations of discursive space as social fact. The main question is "Why i s this particular discourse, not anything else, presented?". Fourthly, disc ourse analysts problematize "Why anybody told similar discourses at one tim e-space?" rather than "Who told?".