Overview
- Provides definitions and conceptualisations of fuzziness and boundary work at the level of theoretical frameworks, methodologies and lexical categories
- Examines methods including intuition-based, corpus-based and corpus-driven approaches, sociolinguistic interviews, matched-guised techniques and discourse completion tasks
- Includes case study analysis of key examples of fuzzy boundaries in discourse, including the socio-political implications of vague language and the role of discourse markers
Part of the book series: Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse (PSDS)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Fuzzy Boundaries in Discourse Studies: Broader Theoretical Issues
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Front Matter
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Fuzzy Boundaries in Research Methodology and Processes
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Fuzzy Boundaries Between Lexico-Grammatical Categories
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Back Matter
Keywords
- discourse theory
- Critical Discourse Studies
- epistemic authority
- international relations
- heterogeneity
- poststructuralist discourse theory
- conversation analysis
- literary criticism
- intuition
- entextualization
- victimization
- graffiti
- Gricean maxims
- irony
- metaphor
- humour
- neurolinguistics
- Discourse Markers
- fuzzy boundaries
- fuzziness
- translation studies
About this book
This book focuses on the multifarious aspects of ‘fuzzy boundaries’ in the field of discourse studies, a field that is marked by complex boundary work and a great degree of fuzziness regarding theoretical frameworks, methodologies, and the use of linguistic categories. Discourse studies is characterised by a variety of theoretical frameworks and disciplinary fields, research methodologies, and lexico-grammatical categories. The contributions in this book explore some of the nuances and implications of the fuzzy boundaries in these areas, resulting in a wide-reaching volume which will be of interest to students and scholars of discourse studies in fields including sociology, linguistics, international relations, philosophy, literary criticism and anthropology.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Péter B. Furkó is Associate Professor in English Applied Linguistics and Vice Dean for Science and Research at the Department of English Linguistics at Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church, Hungary.
Ildikó Vaskó is Associate Professor at the Department of Scandinavian Studies at Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest, Hungary.
Csilla Ilona Dér is Associate Professor at the Department of Hungarian Linguistics, Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church, Hungary.
Dorte Madsen is Associate Professor at the Department of Management, Society and Communication at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Fuzzy Boundaries in Discourse Studies
Book Subtitle: Theoretical, Methodological, and Lexico-Grammatical Fuzziness
Editors: Péter B. Furkó, Ildikó Vaskó, Csilla Ilona Dér, Dorte Madsen
Series Title: Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27573-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-27572-3Published: 02 January 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-27575-4Published: 19 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-27573-0Published: 16 December 2019
Series ISSN: 2946-5990
Series E-ISSN: 2946-6008
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 318
Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations, 30 illustrations in colour
Topics: Translation Studies, Discourse Analysis, Corpus Linguistics, Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics