Family as Enterprising Subject – Critical Analysis of the Infant Prodigy Discourse in Internet Portals for Parents Cover Image

Rodzina jako podmiot przedsiębiorczy – krytyczna analiza dyskursu wychowania małego geniusza w portalach internetowych dla rodziców
Family as Enterprising Subject – Critical Analysis of the Infant Prodigy Discourse in Internet Portals for Parents

Author(s): Monika Popow
Subject(s): Social development, Family and social welfare, Social Informatics, Sociology of Culture
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: infant prodigy; parents internet portals; professionalization of parenting; entrepreneurship discourse; critical discourse analysis;

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to analyse the infant prodigy discourse in popular Polish internet portals for parents. As a result of Critical Discourse Analysis, key rhetoric strategies, constructing the representation of a child and its family, have been identified. Subsequently, the analysis of particular discursive strategies, including professionalization of parenthood and discursive construction of a family as an entrepreneur of the self, have been conducted.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 95-118
  • Page Count: 24
  • Language: Polish