Month: May 2017

Discourses and Discourse Analysis

Discourse Analysis II

  Last week’s post was concerned with Discourse Analysis 1, the power that images and text create over the reader. Today, I will talk about the other type of Discourse Analysis (DA2). Discourse analysis 1 and 2 are different in what they stand for, but share Foucault’s notion of operating power and knowledge. However, while …

Discourses and Discourse Analysis

Discourse Analysis I

Semiotics and Ethnographic research are two of the many methods that can be used in order to gather knowledge. In the next two posts I will write about Discourse Analysis, which is split into two parts. Discourse Analysis deals, according to Rose (2001), with the socially constructed concepts and objects that are created and maintained …