Terms

Explore how social inequality is reflected and challenged in language through discourse analysis, uncovering the power dynamics that sustain societal hierarchies.

Explore micro-level discourse analysis, focusing on how language constructs meaning, negotiates identities, and exercises power in specific interactions.

Explore meso-level discourse analysis, focusing on how language shapes and is shaped by organizational practices, group identities, and power dynamics.

Explore macro-level discourse analysis, focusing on how language reflects and shapes societal structures, ideologies, and power relations across institutions.

Explore Michel Foucault’s concept of epistemes in discourse analysis, focusing on how they structure knowledge, shape discourse, and define truth in historical periods.

Explore Foucault’s concept of discourses in discourse analysis, focusing on how they shape reality, enforce norms, and sustain power in society.

Explore the concept of discursive formations in discourse analysis, examining how knowledge, power, and meaning are structured through language across various social contexts.

Explore power relations in discourse analysis, examining how language enacts, sustains, and challenges power within social interactions across various contexts.

Explore discursive practices in discourse analysis, focusing on how language is used to construct reality, assert power, and shape social norms in various contexts.

Explore deconstruction in discourse analysis, a method that uncovers hidden assumptions, contradictions, and power dynamics in language, challenging fixed meanings.