Situating Discourse Analysis in Ethnographic and Sociopolitical Context
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Participant Roles, Stance, Register, Genre, IntertextualityAbstract
In this article, Jennifer Roth-Gordon proposes an ethnographic approach to discourse analysis that is not only concerned with analyzing one of the linguistic, interactional, cultural, ethnographic, or sociopolitical structural levels of discourse, but rather integrates these levels and analyzes the discourse by taking into account its overall linguistic, interactional, ethnographic, and sociopolitical features. In building this approach, the researcher relied on integrating two cognitive traditions: The ethnography of communication, especially the proposal of the Canadian Erving Goffman, and the theory of literature by the Russian Mikhail Bakhtin. I benefited from their proposed concepts to analyze rhetorical interaction and literary works.
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