Discursive Technologies and the Social Organization of Meaning

That texts play a constitutive role in social structuration is one of the fundamental claims of critical discourse analysis. A theoretical perspective to understand this claim in both a material & a semiotic sense is presented. Recent research on complex systems shows that they are typically org...

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Published in:Folia linguistica 2001, Vol.35 (1-2), p.79-96
Main Author: LEMKE, Jay L
Format: Article
Language:English
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Discourse semiotics
Discourse studies
Linguistics
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Summary:That texts play a constitutive role in social structuration is one of the fundamental claims of critical discourse analysis. A theoretical perspective to understand this claim in both a material & a semiotic sense is presented. Recent research on complex systems shows that they are typically organized on & across multiple timescales. Texts, as material-semiotic artifacts, play a key role in the organization of social systems across timescales & in the widest extension of social networks. It is proposed that contemporary changes in the organization of society, such as globalization, are associated with significant shifts in the dominance of particular discursive technologies, & that hypertext & other forms of meaning making organized around traversals across traditional institutional & genre boundaries index emergent new forms of social organization & control. 31 References. Adapted from the source document
ISSN:0165-4004
1614-7308
DOI:10.1515/flin.2001.35.1-2.79