Discourse embedded, discourse contextualized. An approach inspired by Pierre Bourdieu’s theory Cover Image

Dyskurs ucieleśniony, dyskurs skontekstualizowany. Podejście inspirowane teorią Pierre’a Bourdieu
Discourse embedded, discourse contextualized. An approach inspired by Pierre Bourdieu’s theory

Author(s): Tomasz Warczok
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Uniwersytet Łódzki - Wydział Ekonomiczno-Socjologiczny
Keywords: discourse; Bourdieu; field; mental categories; intertextuality; symbolic violence

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the possible ways of developing discourse analysis on the grounds of Pierre Bourdieu’s sociological theory. Comparing Bourdieu’s approach with other perspectives, defined here broadly as critical discourse analysis, the author points out these elements which seem useful in studying various types of texts (written and spoken) from sociological perspective. These observations concern both the processes of production and reception of individual discourses. The author considers quest for naturalized categories organizing the frames of discourses and managing subjective schemata of their perception to be a crucial direction of the proposed approach. Given that social fields should be considered as fundamental spaces of symbolic production, their identification and reconstruction is of primary importance. The analysis of fields and their inter-relations enables the development of a novel approach to intertextual analysis, which can be considered one of the fundamental objectives of CDA.

  • Issue Year: IX/2013
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 32-47
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Polish