Systemic Background (1985) First published in Systemic Perspectives on Discourse, Vol. 1: Selected Theoretical Papers from the Ninth International Systemic Workshop, edited by James D. Benson and William S. Greaves (Advances in Discourse Processes 15). Ablex Publishing, 1985, pp. 1–15.

2014 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Processes

Language as social practice

2008 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Amouzadeh
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Social Power ◽  
Analytical Investigation ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
Discourse Processes ◽  
Third Stage ◽  
The Media ◽  
Stage Development ◽  
The One

This paper aims to investigate the language used by newspapers in post-revolutionary Iran. More precisely, the paper sets out to analyze how such a language is deployed to represent relevant hegemonic ideologies. The approach adopted for this purpose draws inspiration mainly from critical linguistics, where it is hypothesized that, as far as the pertinent metadiscourse goes, media genres serve to activate and perpetuate social power relations. In keeping with this theoretical stance, the paper argues that socially constructed texts can be said to perform two complementary functions; on the one hand, they shed light on the realities experienced in social life; on the other, they reveal such aspects of those realities as are constructed through the use of language. It is thus in this context that the media language used in the post-revolutionary Iran lends itself to analytical investigation, where the available data reveal the co-existence of three competing discourse processes of ‘Islamization’, ‘Iranian Nationalism’ and ‘Western liberalism’, relating to the third stage development of post-revolutionary Iran.

scholarly journals Abstracts: Applied linguistics

2007 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 364-366
Keyword(s):  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
English Language ◽  
Electronic Materials ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Word Sense Disambiguation ◽  
Word Sense ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Discourse Processes ◽  
Oxford University Press

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