WORKSHOP : Discourse analysis
Reiner Keller (University of Augsburg)
Discourse
Studies today cover a large field across the social sciences, ranging
from work inspired by Foucault, Critical Discourse Analysis through
Hegemonics Analysis, Corpus Lingustics and more interpretive approaches.
The present workshop on 'Doing Discourse Research' will introduce
participants to the main positions in the heterogeneous field of
discourse research (including Foucauldian perspectives, CDA, Hegemonics
and the Sociology of Knowledge approach to discourse SKAD.). As there is
no best way to discourse research, each of the positions mentioned
allows for dealing with particular questions in critical inquiry into
discourses. The first part of the workshop therefore discusses the
relationship between theoretical groundings, analytical potential and
methods of doing discourse research in these diverse approaches. Second,
the workshop will present in more detailed ways the proceedings of the
sociology of knowledge approach to discourse developed by Reiner Keller.
SKAD draws on Berger & Luckmann's sociology of knowledge, but
includes major Foucauldian concepts and research interests. Integrating
both, it re-orientates discourse research towards questions of social
relationships of knowledge and politics of knowledge, referring in its
concrete 'ways of doing' to qualitative research design and
interpretative analytics.
For more information, visit https://kuleuvencongres.be/ECQI2017/Workshops
