Developing New Identities in Social Conflicts

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Dedication page

Table of contents

Preface

1. Introduction

2. About the specific contents of chapters

Chapter 1. Constructionism in historical writing

1. Introduction: Theoretical background

2. How does symbolization work in historical discourse?

References

Chapter 2. White, Burke and the “literary” nature of historical controversies

1. Introduction

2. Metahistorical controversies about the past

3. A tropological turn in response to some specific but irreconcilable disagreement

4. On the limits of a transcendental reading of tropology

5. Figural causality of tropological drift

6. Controversies as a conversation (in a pragmatistic sense) through tropological drift

7. Conclusion

References

Chapter 3. The discursive construction of reality in the context of rhetoric: Constructivist rhetoric

1. Introduction

2. The epistemological basis of ancient sophistry (constructivism Avant la Lettre) and its historical disrepute

2. The epistemological basis of ancient sophistry (constructivism Avant la Lettre) and its historical disrepute

3. The beginnings of the recovery of rhetoric in the twentieth century

4. The revival of rhetoric and constructivism: The return to elocutio and the third level of revival of rhetorical thinking

5. The connection between rhetoric and discourse analysis

6. A final word

References

Chapter 4. Understanding social conflict: Reason or emotion?

1. Introduction

2. The social nature of human beings

3. Emotions

4. Explanations: Searching for Truths?

5. Conversations

6. Conflicts

7. Final remarks: Reflection

Acknowledgements

References

Chapter 5. I am and I am not Charlie: The discursive conflict surrounding the attack on Charlie Hebdo

1. Propaedeutics: Toward a constructivist rhetoric

2. The events

3. The meaning of the events: A theory

3.1 The theory

3.2 Practice

4. Conclusions

References

Chapter 6. Media representations of recent human migrations to the United Kingdom and other Western countries

1. Introduction: Media discourse as construction

2. The Master Narrative of Western media as applied to human migrations

3. Human migration: Realities and media discourse

4. An analysis of linguistic devices used to describe human migration

4.1 Methodology

4.2 Linguistic devices and human migration: Labelling, metaphors, transitivity

5. Interpretation and conclusions

References

Chapter 7. Rhetorical analysis of health risk discourse: The 2009 influenza pandemic crisis

1. Introduction

2. The social study of risk within a constructivist frame

3. Current rhetorical theory as a toolkit for the social study of health risk

4. The European Council hearing on June 26 2006: Analysis of the speeches of Wolfgang Wodarg and Keiji Fukuda

4. The European Council hearing on June 26 2006: Analysis of the speeches of Wolfgang Wodarg and Keiji Fukuda

4.1 The speech by Wolfgang Wodarg

4.2 Construction of the international health authority and community in the narrative of Wodarg’s discourse

4.3 Construction of the political authorities and other national social institutions in the narrative of Wodarg’s discourse

4.4 The speech by Keiji Fukuda

4.5 Construction of the international health authorities and the scientific community in the narrative of Fukuda’s discourse

4.6 Construction of the political authorities and other social institutions in Fukuda’s discourse

5. Final conclusions and interpretations

References

Chapter 8. Critical analysis of an educational discourse practice: The literary text commentary

1. Introduction

2. Theoretical and methodological framework

3. Discourse analysis

3.1 Reading deficiency and the critical understanding of texts: A social problem

3.2 The contexts of text commentary

3.3 Case study: The handbook “How to comment on a literary text,” by Lázaro Carreter and Correa Calderón (1975)

4. Interpretation and results

References

Chapter 9. The (re)construction of gender roles in the genre of song: In search of female empowerment

1. Introduction

2. Domestic violence and gender identities

3. Methodological approach

4. Analysis

5. Conclusion

References

Chapter 10. Posthumanism and the city: The construction of identity and ideological conflict in discourses regarding the new technological self

1. Introduction

2. Theoretical background: Constructivist rhetoric

3. Transhumanism and posthumanism: Definitions and ideological conflict

3.1 Human identity: Man’s doing against Mother Nature

3.2 The abyss between mind and body

3.3 Power and technological inequality

4. Posthumanism and the concept of “Smart City”

5. Barcelona, a Smart City?

6. Conclusions

References

Chapter 11. Discourses of social movements in Southern Europe: The slogans of 15M

1. Introduction

2. Theoretical framework

2.1 The socio-cognitive perspective

2.2 The pragmatic and rhetorical-constructivist approach

3. Data analysis

3.1 The slogans of 15M

3.2 Methodology

3.3 Analysis of three slogans

4. Discussion and conclusions

References

Chapter 12. Cognitive frames, imaginaries and discursive constructions: Post-15M discourses with reference to eco-social alternatives

1. Introduction

2. Critical discourse analysis from a constructivist position

2.1 Theoretical and methodological framework

2.2 The relationship between the constructivist approach and other current research on discourse

2.3 Texts, discourses and discursive practices

3. Discourse analysis

3.1 The context of the CIC

3.2 Data analysis

4. Interpretation and results

References

Epilogue

1. Final thoughts on constructivism

2. Relativism, again?

3. Constructivism and post-capitalist alternatives

4. Final remarks

References

Author index

Subject index