Doing Discourse Research: An Introduction for Social Scientists - Softcover

Keller, Reiner

 
9781446249710: Doing Discourse Research: An Introduction for Social Scientists

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This book provides an introduction to the basic principles of discourse research, offering practical research strategies for doing discourse analyses in the social sciences. The book includes guidance on developing a research question, selecting data and analyzing it, and presenting the results. The author has extensive practical experience in the field of discourse research and shows, throughout, how the methods suggested are compatible with numerous research questions and problems in sociology, cultural, political and social studies and related disciplines.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Reiner Keller (Dr. Phil) is Professor of Sociology at Augsburg University (Germany) since 2011. He was a member of the executive board of the German sociological association from 2015 to 2019 and chaired its sociology of knowledge section from 2011 to 2016. Currently, he is a codirector of the Jakob Fugger Center for Transnational Studies at Augsburg university and coeditor of the Journal for Discourse Research. His research centres on sociology of knowledge and culture, discourse studies, sociological theory, qualitative methods, risk and environment, and French sociology. He has published extensively in these areas. Keller received the German sociological association′s best textbook in sociology award in 2013–2014 for "The Interpretive Paradigm." Further books include monographies on waste policy discourses in France and Germany, the sociology of knowledge approach to discourse, Michel Foucault. See http://www.uni-augsburg.de/keller and http://kellersskad.blogspot.de

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This new translation of a popular German text gives a clear and accessible introduction and overview of the most important approaches to discourse across disciplines and from mainly English, French and German contexts.

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