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Western-liberal discourses of power & the social practices associated with them are proving inadequate to the task of creating a peaceful, just, & sustainable social order. Having recognized this, progressive scholars & social reformers have begun articulating alternative discourses of power, along with alternative models of social practice. Together, these efforts can be interpreted as a project of discourse intervention -- an effort to change our social reality by altering the discourses that help constitute it. In order to advance this project, this paper deconstructs the dominant Western-liberal discourse of power, clarifies elements of an alternative discourse of power, & presents a case study of an alternative discourse community & the alternative models of social practice that it is constructing. 2 Figures, 83 References. Adapted from the source document.

Constructing vulnerability: the experience of children and other groups within legal discourse / Michelle Aldridge, June Luchjenbroers -- Learning and unlearning being guilty: on the contingent ascription of a deficit category / Thomas Scheffer -- Categorisations of child 'in need' and child 'in need of protection' and implications for the formulation of 'deficit' parenting / Christopher Hall, Stef Slembrouck -- 'She is not coping': risk assessment and claims of deficit in social work / Arthur S. Firkins, Christopher N. Candlin -- Narrative, identity and care: joint problematisation in a study of people living with dementia / Jonathan Crichton, Tina Koch -- 'We're just going to be talking about you...': identifying deficits and achieving quality in nurse-patient discourse / Sally Candlin -- 'You don't want to look like that for the rest of your life': contested discourses of loss in a normative societal context / Lesley Stirling, Lenore Manderson, Jennifer MacFarlane -- Identity work in consultancy projects: ambiguity and distribution of credit and blame / Mats Alvesson, Stefan Sveningsson -- On the discursive construction of knowledge deficits in the 'alter' / Peter Kastberg, Marianne Grove Ditlevsen -- The discursive construction of language disorders / Dana Kovarsky, Irene Walsh -- Public and private identity: the co-construction of aphasia through discourse / Elizabeth Armstrong, Alison Ferguson, Lynne Mortensen -- Epistemic injustice and the power to define: interviewing Cameroonian primary school teachers about language education / Edith Esch -- Absence as deficit in assessing intercultural capability / Angela Scarino -- Discourses of deficit and deficits of discourse: computers, disability and mediated action / Rodney Jones -- Young peoples' binge drinking constituted as a deficit of individual self-control in UK government alcohol policy / Chris Hackley ... [et al.] -- Measuring deficit / Tim McNamara -- A neo-colonial farce? Discourses of deficit in Australian Aboriginal land claim and Native title cases / Michael Walsh

This book explores the discourse in and of translation within and across cultures and languages. From the macro aspects of translation as an inter- cultural project to actual analysis of textual ingredients that contribute to translation and interpreting as discourse, the ten chapters represent different explorations of 'global' theories of discourse and translation. Offering interrogations of theories and practices within different sociocultural environments and traditions (Eastern and Western), Discourse in Translation considers a plethora of domains, including historiography, ethics, technical and legal discourse, subtitling, and the politics of media translation as representation. This is key reading for all those working on translation and discourse within translation studies and linguistics.

"Conspiracy Theory Discourses addresses a crucial phenomenon in the current political and communicative context: conspiracy theories. The social impact of conspiracy theories is wide-ranging and their influence on the political life of many nations is increasing. Conspiracy Theory Discourses bridges an important gap by bringing discourse-based insights to existing knowledge about conspiracy theories, which has so far developed in research areas other than Linguistics and Discourse Studies. The chapters in this volume call attention to conspiracist discourses as deeply ingrained ways to interpret reality and construct social identities. They are based on multiple, partly overlapping analytical frameworks, including Critical Discourse Analysis, rhetoric, metaphor studies, multimodality, and corpus-based, quali-quantitative approaches. These approaches are an entry point to further explore the environments which enable the proliferation of conspiracy theory, and the paramount role of discourse in furthering conspiracist interpretations of reality"--

Il est nécessaire de prévenir tout malentendu vis-à-vis de la propagande coloniale ; d'autant que les malentendus semblent assez largement partagés. En premier lieu ; il faut souligner que le terme de propagande ; aujourd'hui considéré comme largement péjoratif (.) n'a pas la même valeur au XIXème siècle et dans les premières décennies du XXème. En second lieu ; les procès d'intention des anticoloniaux et des anticolonialistes à l'égard de cette propagande ; et les analyses qui en sont faites dans les écrits postcoloniaux devraient être ramenés à une plus juste proportion. (Extrait de l'introduction du chapitre par l'auteur)

Discourse plays an important role in medicine, and medical discourse in the broadest sense (discourse in and about healing, curing, or therapy; expressions of suffering; and relevant language ideologies) has profound anthropological significance. As modes of social action, writing and speaking help constitute medical institutions, curative practices, and relations of authority in and beyond particular healing encounters. This review describes cultural variation in medical discourse and variation across genres and registers. It then surveys two approaches to analyzing medical discourse: conversation analysis (CA) and discourse studies echoing Foucault's work, attempting to spur dialogue between them. Such dialogue could be fruitful because, despite hesitancy to invoke macrosocial variables, conversation analysts as well as Foucaultian discourse analysts have reflected on medical authority. Finally, the article reviews recent attempts to contextualize closely analyzed interactions—written exchanges as well as face-to-face clinical encounters—vis-à-vis the global circulation of linguistic forms and ideologies.

Discourses concerned with the perceived global environmental crisis have increased dramatically over the past couple of decades. This review consists of an ethnographic analysis of the principal components of environmental discourses as well as a discussion of the approaches employed to analyze them. These include linguistic discourses (ecolinguistics, ecocritical linguistics, discourse analysis) as well as approaches developed within other disciplines (anthropology, literary studies, philosophy, and psychology).Over the years, the structural properties of environmental discourses have developed into a distinct discourse category. It remains unclear to what extent the numerous environmental discourses and metadiscourses significantly contribute to improving the health of the natural environment.

Discourse since September 11, 2001 has constrained and shaped public discussion and debate surrounding terrorism worldwide. Social actors in the Americas, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and elsewhere employ the language of the "war on terror" to explain, react to, justify and understand a broad range of political, economic and social phenomena. Discourse, War and Terrorism explores the discursive production of identities, the shaping of ideologies, and the formation of collective understandings in response to 9/11 in the United States and around the world. At issue are how enemies are defined a

"Table of contents" -- "A foreword on humorous discourse" -- "I Approaches at the essence of humorous discourse" -- "Humor theory: What is and what is not" -- "Metonymy in humour" -- "Conceptual integration and humor" -- "The dynamics of humour" -- "II Humor as a function of discourse" -- "The GTVH and humorous discourse" -- "Metapragmatic markers of the bona fide and non-bona fide modes of communication" -- "Wordplay and football: Humour in the discourse of written sports reporting" -- "Audience affiliation, membership categories, and the construction of humor in stand-up comedy" -- "Humor research and humor reception: Far away, so close" -- "III Computer modeling of humorous discourse" -- "Ontological Semantic Theory of Humor in a context of humorous discourse" -- "Notes on the contributors

The book approaches law from the legal-linguistic perspective. Its aim is to clarify the processes in which the meaning of law emerges in legal discourses. In order to enable the understanding of law as a discursive practice, professional and non-professional discourses are analyzed. With this aim in mind, the author focuses on the epistemological consequences of the discursiveness of law. Other relevant legal-linguistic operations such as legal interpretation or legal translation are scrutinized in terms of their theoretical prerequisites and their practical consequences. Their analysis also