Ethnography and discourse analysis

[Phil Graham]

The point should also probably be made that the underpinning linguistic 
approaches in much of CDA (namely functionalist linguistc approaches) have 
their roots in linguistic anthropology and so have been developed 
ethnographically (firstly by way of what is now called "grounded theory") 
--- as far as epistemology goes, it could be said that the phenomenological 
epistemology of ethnographic research is complemented by the "scientific" 
(or "critical realist") epistemology of systematic discourse analysis (this 
last insight I owe to Jay Lemke).

The illusion that ethnography and discourse analysis have disparate roots 
and epistemologies is a function of historical disciplinarity in respect of 
method. They were both of a piece for most of the 20th century.

Best regards,
Phil

At 04:17 PM 3/07/2003 +0200, Teun A. van Dijk wrote:

>While I was at it (looking for "critical" studies in ethnography) I did
>some searches, and composed a partial bibliography of recent studies in
>ethnography that shows that many of these studies also deal with
>critical, political, etc. issues. Although not complete, and although
>limited to newer studies (after 1995) so as to limit its length, the
>bibliography may be useful for critical discourse analysts. I am sure
>that ethnographers could add many missing titles.
>
>Also due to the bias of Social Science Citation Index, most journal
>articles are in English.
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>Additions are welcome. I shall post the updated bibliography on my
>website (under Resources for Discourse Studies / Bibliographies).
>
>Teun
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>Teun A. van Dijk
>Universitat Pompeu Fabra
>Departament de Traducció i Filologia
>La Rambla 32
>08002 Barcelona, Spain
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>E-mail: teun at discourse-in-society.org
>Internet: www.discourse-in-society.org
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Phil Graham
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UQ Business School www.business.uq.edu.au
Editor, Critical Discourse Studies www.cds-web.net
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