Textual Politics: Discourse And Social Dynamics
- ISBN-10
- 113574825X
- ISBN-13
- 9781135748258
- Category
- Education
- Pages
- 208
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2005-10-18
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Author
- Jay L. Lemke
Description
Texts record the meanings we make: in words, pictures and deeds, and politics chronicles our uses of power in shaping social relationships large and small. Textual politics is about meaning - the meaning we make with words and with the symbolic values of every object and action.; The book begins with an introduction which discusses the relationship between Discourse And The Notions Of Power And Ideology. These Concepts Are Then applied to major issues: the social construction of class, gender and individuality; the rhetoric of polarizing social controversies religious fundamentalism vs. gay rights; and the abuse of technical language in policy arguments educational research vs. conservative politics. The book ends with chapters which extend the theory to processes of large- scale social change and apply it to the challenges facing education and political action in the new global information century.
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