Book chapter
Negative Discourse Analysis, Narrative, and Post-Literate Culture
Texts and Practices Revisited: Essential Readings in Critical Discourse Analysis, 2nd Edition, pp.152-170
Routledge, 2nd Edition
2023
Abstract
This chapter demonstrates a method for analysing the function of narrative in newly emerging ethical formations. It collectively theorises those formations as post-literate cultures. Post-literate cultures rely on literate and pre-literate practices, but they have dimensions that are entirely new, facilitated by new media technologies and new narrative structures, including those found in games, reality television, and social media platforms. Whether as remnants, effects, or artefacts of emerging forms of popular culture, or as new and incipient political movements, I demonstrate how these discourses operate, what they mean, and how they can be seen to be changing ethics and morals on a mass scale. The corpus I use to demonstrate the argument includes political speeches, design theory texts, and excerpts from social media, all of which can be shown to be interconnected, mutually reliant, and focused on the ‘thou-shalt-nots’ that underpin any ethically charged utterances.
Details
- Title
- Negative Discourse Analysis, Narrative, and Post-Literate Culture
- Authors
- Phil Graham (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Creative Industries - Legacy
- Contributors
- Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard (Editor)Malcolm Coulthard (Editor)
- Publication details
- Texts and Practices Revisited: Essential Readings in Critical Discourse Analysis, 2nd Edition, pp.152-170
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- DOI
- 10.4324/9781003272847-10; 10.4324/9781003272847
- ISBN
- 9781003272847
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic); School of Creative Industries - Legacy
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99639578802621
- Output Type
- Book chapter
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