Friday, September 23, 2011

Memorable Quotes # 14: The Discourse-Analytic Orientation

(Book: Wood, L.A. & Kroger. R.O. (2000). Doing Discourse Analysis: Methods for Studying Action in Talk and Text. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.) 


“Discourse analysis requires a particular orientation to texts, a particular frame of mind. […] The first task is to recognize that discourse analysis requires the ability to examine discourse creatively in all of its multifarious aspects and an open-mindedness to entertain multiple possibilities.” (p. 91)



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