Knowledge and Discourse (Language in Social Life)

Book 5 of 18: Language In Social Life

Barron, Colin: Nigel Bruce and David Nunan (eds.)

ISBN 10: 0582328802 ISBN 13: 9780582328808

Published by Longman, 2002

Language: English

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Knowledge and Discourse (Language in Social Life)

Publisher

Longman

Publication Date

2002

Language

English

ISBN 10

0582328802

ISBN 13

9780582328808

Binding

Soft cover

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Knowledge and Discourse presents an ecological approach to the study of discourse in social, academic and professional practices. It brings together distinguished scholars from diverse cultures - India, China, Australia, Canada among others - and disciplines - linguistics, anthropology, sociology, philosophy. The chapters collectively illustrate the ecological approach by exploring how language makes connections between subjective experiences as people construct meaning and action.

This book offers the reader a holistic, interdisciplinary approach to the study of language as discourse, questioning traditional views of disciplinary knowledge and the role of discourse in the pursuit, construction and compartmentalisation of such knowledge. Through the variety of disciplines, experiences and approaches, the contributors show how the world and word are contingent on each other. The notions of connectivity, contingency and change are themes that run through the book, and in the interweaving of these themes readers will find persuasive illustrations of an ecological approach to applied linguistics.

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Colin Barron, Nigel Bruce and David Nunan are all based at the English Centre, Hong Kong University.

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