ISBN:
9780415814294
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (163 p)
Series Statement:
Routledge Revivals
Parallel Title:
Print version Official Discourse (Routledge Revivals) : On Discourse Analysis, Government Publications, Ideology and the State
DDC:
302.2/4
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
First published in 1979, Official Discourse is an unofficial report of theoretical investigations into a specific state of practice- the publication of reports of official inquiries into law, order and justice issues. The commissions, tribunals and committees of inquiry scrutinized in this book examine problems arising from wrongful imprisonment, police corruption, industrial picketing, and communal rioting and internment in Northern Ireland. Focusing on the reasons why government reports take the form they do, the authors venture into the areas of linguistics, psychoanalysis
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue; 1.Official publications: their historical and constitutional significance; The contemporary significance of public investigative committees; 2. Discourse analysis; Recognition: royal road to ideology and closure? Yes and no; Contradiction - Why not?; 3. Official Discourse and state apparatuses; Ideological state apparatuses: articulation, positionality and recognition; 4. The judicial stare; Common-law, common-sense and epistemology
Description / Table of Contents:
5. The judicial discourseAdjudicative narrative and the hierarchy of knowing subjects; Technical guarantees of objectivity and the discursive appropriationof a material world; 6. Official Discourse; Discursive problems of official publications on law and order; The paradigms; Syntax; 7. The reading and writing of Official Discourse; The science/ideology dichotomy; Can the (theoretico/political) constitution and effectivity of subjectivities be theorised?; What are the limits of theory?; 8. Official Discourse: report of an unofficial inquiry; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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