1st Edition

Posthumanism and Deconstructing Arguments Corpora and Digitally-driven Critical Analysis

By Kieran O'Halloran Copyright 2017
    354 Pages
    by Routledge

    354 Pages
    by Routledge

    Posthumanism and Deconstructing Arguments: Corpora and Digitally-driven Critical Analysis presents a new and practical approach in Critical Discourse Studies. Providing a data-driven and ethically-based method for the examination of arguments in the public sphere, this ground-breaking book:







    • Highlights how the reader can evaluate arguments from points of view other than their own;


    • Demonstrates how digital tools can be used to generate ‘ethical subjectivities’ from large numbers of dissenting voices on the world-wide-web;


    • Draws on ideas from posthumanist philosophy as well as from Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari for theorising these subjectivities;


    • Showcases a critical deconstructive approach, using different corpus linguistic programs such as AntConc, WMatrix and Sketchengine.




    Posthumanism and Deconstructing Arguments is essential reading for lecturers and researchers with an interest in critical discourse studies, critical thinking, corpus linguistics and digital humanities.

    Preface





    Chapter 1 Introduction





    Part A Preparing the Ground
    Chapter 2 Critical thinking and pedagogical critical discourse analysis
    Chapter 3 Deconstruction and Jacques Derrida’s philosophy of language
    Chapter 4 Corpus linguistics and digital text analysis





    Part B Using big ready-made corpora to generate discursive subjectivities
    Chapter 5 Discursive subjectivity
    Chapter 6 Bypassing challenges of reconstruction





    Part C Making corpora to generate ethical subjectivities
    Chapter 7 Ethical subjectivity generated with lemmas
    Chapter 8 Ethical subjectivity generated with keywords
    Chapter 9 Ethical subjectivity generated rhizomatically  



    Part D Reflection: posthuman subjectivities and critical reading
    Chapter10 Methodology
    Chapter 11 Deterritorialisations



    Index

    Biography

    Kieran O'Halloran is Reader in Applied Linguistics in the School of Education, Communication and Society at King's College London, UK.