This week, we started talking about a direction that some discourse analysis has taken into critically looking at how language use (discourse) intersects with issues of power, ideology and social institutions. It's not a particular 'method' like Ethnography is, but is rather an approach, or a purpose for the analysis.
We discussed issues of how language use organizes concepts of reality, how different discourses compete with each other to determine reality, how institutions maintain control through discourse and how ideologies are 'naturalized' through discourse.
In this blog, I want you to explore any of these concepts that you find interesting, confusing, irritating, etc. These can be big ideas, so I just want to provide some space for general exploration of them. Have at it!
Thanks,
Tiffany
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I must admit that I had not anticipating the correlation of the uses of a non-dominant discourse as a means of a community's defense.
Our required reading on Gaybonics indicates that oppressed peoples use multiple vehicles of resistance - this is an important point; while we indicate through both discussion and in writing the vectors of power stemming from the dominant class, resistance is also structured in ways that are often times obscure.
It also indicates that I need to read more Bell Hooks. =)
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