Social Movement Discourse

An Introduction

Teun A. van Dijk

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9781032596242
• eBook ISBN: 9781003820901
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Linguistic Semantics
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

This is both the first systematic introduction to Discourse Studies for students and scholars of social movements and a study of discourses on the European "refugee crisis", by leading theorist, Teun A. van Dijk.

Concrete examples of different kinds of discourse are vital for the study of social movements because their activities are not limited to such well-known forms of contention as marches, occupations or strikes, but also daily discursive activities, such as meetings, assemblies, interviews, press conferences, manifestos, pamphlets, banners, graffiti, websites, blogs, social media posts and everyday talk.This book proposes that empirical analyses of these discourses should go beyond the popular but vague notion of "frame"and engage in more detailed and explicit analyses of the text and talk of social movements.

This is a much-needed introduction to the most important structures of discourse and a detailed theoretical account of the notion of "solidarity" defining the Refugees Welcome movement.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Endorsement
• Half-Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Social Movements and Refugees
• 3 Social Movements and the Communicative Context
• 4 A Repertoire of Social Movement Discourse Genres
• 5 The Words of Social Movements
• 6 Social Movements and Grammar
• 7 Social Movements and Semantics
• 8 Social Movements and Style
• 9 Social Movements and Rhetoric
• 10 Social Movements and Argumentation
• 11 Social Movements and Storytelling
• 12 Social Movements and Multimodality
• 13 Social Movements and Pragmatics
• 14 Social Movements and Talk-in-Interaction
• References
• Index