Critical Discourse Studies And/In Communication Theories Methodologies And Pedagogies At The Intersections | Communication Studies

This book argues for an inherent connection between Critical Discourse Studies and Communication Studies. The volume begins with a comprehensive introduction that documents the shift towards Critical Discourse Studies in the study of socio-discursive phenomena as well as its implications in terms of theories methodologies and objects of study within and beyond Communication. The diverse selection of case studies further demonstrates the possibilities located at the intersection of Communication and Critical Discourse Studies ultimately providing solid ground for a firmer cross-fertilization between the two. The chapters as a whole provide an insightful state of the art of the kinds of research that emerge when we consider the traversing trajectories of Critical Discourse Studies and Communication advancing our understanding of self-reflexivity journalism production and social media discourses of neurodiversity the environment autism advocacy and national memory. They also provide promising emergent venues that speak to the value and the need of interdisciplinary theory building. This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal Review of Communication. |Critical Discourse Studies and/in Communication Theories Methodologies and Pedagogies at the Intersections | Communication Studies