A couple of weeks ago I requested some help finding digestible and
accessible references to assist in undergard teaching around discourse
analysis. As always, the lists delivered. Appended below, in rather
unordered form, are a variety of resources. I haven't been able to find
them all, but have found the first (stuart hall's chapter) particularly
useful as a starting point. The internet reference by Chandler looks good,
although a little too detailed for my purposes
Thanks to all who replied!
Nick Blomley
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Chap 1: Stuart Hall 'The work of representation' in _Representation:
Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices_ ed. Stuart Hall.
London: Sage [in association with the OU], 1997. [the rest of the book is
also useful] [the book provides a lot of exercises as well as
commentaries on various approaches to representation/discourse/semiotics]
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You might also take a look at Bob Beauregards stuff -- especially the
first two chapters of Voices of Decline
3. For something more contemporary McKenzie Warks Virtual Geography is
good stuff, very lively and immediate writing style -- especially about the
local consumption of global events -- I use it quite extensively in my
Space Power and Geography course and get the students to speculate on a
variety of discourses that have surrounded particular events, such as
Tiannamen Square and the death of Princess Di...
4. Nadia TAdir has a great peice in Tadiar, N., "Manila's New Metropolitan
Form" Differences. A Journal of Feminist Studies Fall 1993, pp. 154-78
(G/U) which desconstructs the meaning of the flyways in Manila...
5. Ernesto Laclau has a piece in Screen called Rupture and Populist
Discourse which came out sometime back in the mid- late 1980s, which is
useful in addressing questions of power and counter discourses...
6. Kinsam, P. "Landscape, race and national identity: the photography of
Ingrid Pollard" Area 1995, 27.4 300-310 (G/U) is also pretty good with
landscape , as is Matless, D., "The Art of Right Living. Landscape and
Citizenship 1918-1939" in Pile and Thrift Mapping the Subject pp. 93-122
(G/U)
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'Formal' da authors who are fabulous (because they are accessible AND
critical)
1.
Fairclough, N. 1989: Language and Power, Longman, London.
Fairclough, N. 1992: Discourse and Social Change, Polity Press, Cambridge.
Fairclough, N. 1995a: Media Discourse, Edward Arnold, London and New York.
Fairclough, N. 1995b: Critical Discourse Analysis: the Critical Study of
Language, Longman, London and New York.
Fairclough, N. L., and R. Wodak 1997: Critical discourse analysis. In T. A.
van Dijk (ed) Discourse Studies. A Multidisciplinary Introduction. Vol. 2.
Discourse as Social Interaction, Sage, London, 258-284.
2.
Van Dijk, T.A. (ed) 1985: Handbook of Discourse Analysis, Volume I:
Discourse as Structure and Process, Academic Press, Orlando and London.
Van Dijk, T.A. (ed) 1985: Handbook of Discourse Analysis. Volume
2:Discourse as Social Interaction, Academic Press, Orlando and London.
Also 3.
Hodge, R.I.V. and G. Kress, 1988: Social Semiotics, Polity Press, Cambridge.
but there is also some good internet stuff available that is even less
complicated
eg
Chandler, D. 1995 (online): Semiotics for Beginners,
http://www.aber.ac.uk/~dgc/sem0a.html, (14 September 1998).
There is also a new text by Dryzek that offers quite a simple model for
'doing da' see:
Dryzek, J.S. 1997: The Politics of the Earth: Environmental Discourses,
Oxford University Press, Oxford.
There are also a number of articles by geographers and others that
demonstrate different styles of DA eg:
Barnes, T.1997: In R. Lee and J. Wills (eds), Geographies of Economies,
Arnold, New York.
Dalby, S. 1992: Ecopolitical discourse: 'environmental security' and
political geography. Progress in Human Geography, 16, 503-522.
Dalby, S. 1993: The 'Kiwi disease': geopolitical discourse in Aotearoa/New
Zealand and the South Pacific, Political Geography, 12(5), 437-456.
Goss, J. 1995: Marketing the New Marketing: The Strategic Discourse of
Geodemographic Information Systems. Ground Truth: The Social Implications
of Geographic Information Systems In J. Pickles (ed) Guilford Press, New
York, 130-170.
Kenny, J.T. 1992: Portland's comprehensive plan as text: the Fred Meyer
case and the politics of reading. In T. Barnes and J. Duncan (eds) Writing
Worlds: Metaphors, Texts, and Discourses in the Interpretation of
Landscapes, Routledge, London, 176-192.
Ó Tuathail, G. 1992a: Foreign policy and the hyperreal: the Reagan
administration and the scripting of 'South Africa'. In T. Barnes and J.
Duncan (eds) Writing Worlds: Discourse, Text and Metaphor in The
Representation of Landscape, Routledge, London and New York, 155-175.
Ó Tuathail, G. 1992b: Geopolitics and discourse: practical geopolitical
reasoning in American foreign policy, Political Geography, 11(2), 190-204.
Ó Tuathail, G. 1993: The effacement of place? US foreign policy and the
spatiality of the gulf crisis, Antipode, 25(1), 1-31.
Ó Tuathail, G. 1996: Critical Geopolitics: the Politics of Writing Global
Space, Routledge, London.
and by non-geographers
Chilton, P. and M. Ilyin 1993: Metaphor in political discourse: the case of
the 'common European house', Discourse and Society: an International
Journal for the Study of Discourse and Communication in their Social,
Political, and Cultural Contexts, 4(1), 7-31.
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EMERY ROE NARRATIVE POLICY ANALYSIS (or Applied Narrative
Analysis, I keep mising up an article title and book title) the
book is out in PAPER from Duke U. Press!!! Try it. You'll like it, or if
you don't, you'll at least understand why.....Also see his latest from
Kluwer press Taking Complexity Seriously/ Sustainable Developmen
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For images/pictures/representation see The Open University's course D 318
on "Culture, Media and Identities" (PO Box 724, The Open University, Milton
Keynes MK 7 6 ZS). Some of it has been published by Sage in 19997/98
(editor Stuart Hall), very accessible and well presented.
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I have found David Wilson's work on discourses of urban growth and
the naturalisation of ideologies of uneven development in US cities helpful.
While not going into loads of detail on methods it might provide a good
example to highlight the effects of media and political discourses on
development. Try:
'Metaphors, growth coalition discourses and black poverty neighbourhoods in
a US city' _Antipode_ (1996) 28: 72-96
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We have found with grad students a book E Burman and I
Parker (eds)
Discourse Analytic Research Routledge 1993 quite good There is a chapter on
discourses of nature which looks at a planning enquiry which appeals to more
practical students
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in the first year Writing &
Publishing Studies course, we teach a module called 'Media Discourses'.
The couple of things that may be useful I list below. They are
DEFINITELY introductory (the first two are appropriate for first year
undergrads, though some of our students struggle with them in their first
year, and the Stuart Hall is appropriate for all undergrads):
John A Walker 'Context as a determinant of photographic meaning' in _The
Camerawork Essays: Context and Meaning in Photography_ ed. Jessica Evans.
London: Rivers Oram Press, 1977 [v. clear elaboration of the context and
circulation of images]
_Ways of Reading: Advanced Reading Skills for Students of English
Literature_ ed. Martin Montgomery, Alan Durant, Nigel Fabb, Tom Furniss
and Sara Mills. London: Routledge, 1992. [it has useful chaps on
'Metaphor' 'Intertextuality and allusion' etc. The chap 'Positioning the
Reader or Spectator' is very good] Some chaps are directed towards
English Lit students, but most of them are accessible to a wide
interdisciplinary audience.
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Branston, J. & Stafford, R. (1996) The Media Student Book. Routledge.
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Stuart Aitken "Analysis of texts: Armchair theory and couch-potato
geography" Methods in Human Geography (Flowerdew and Martin, Longman, 1997)
- written for senior undergrads and beginning MA students. It doesn't
focus specifically on discourse but rather on texts and narrative.
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N i c k B l o m l e y
Associate Professor
Department of Geography
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, B.C. V5A 1S6,
CANADA
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