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Selves, Bodies and the Grammar of Social Worlds

Reimagining Social Change

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  1. Jodie Clark

    1. Department of English, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, United Kingdom

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Part of the book series: Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse (PSDS)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Grammar and Social Worlds

    • Jodie Clark
    Pages 1-11

  3. Structures, Centres and Transformation

    • Jodie Clark
    Pages 13-29

  4. The Empirical Project of Imagining Social Change

    • Jodie Clark
    Pages 31-47

  5. Selves, Bodies, Centres

    • Jodie Clark
    Pages 49-68

  6. The Embodying Community

    • Jodie Clark
    Pages 69-78

  7. The Social Body

    • Jodie Clark
    Pages 79-92

  8. Disruptive Bodies

    • Jodie Clark
    Pages 93-121

  9. Openings

    • Jodie Clark
    Pages 123-135

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 137-142
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About this book

This book is an invitation to researchers who are committed to social change to look for ideas about transformation in an unexpected place – that is, in the data generated from empirical research. Informed by Critical Discourse Analysis and postmodern theory, it proposes a method of locating, through close grammatical analysis of everyday descriptions of the social world, the desire for alternative transformative structures. Drawing upon insightful analysis of conversational data collected over a period of 12 years from both ‘marginalised’ and ‘mainstream’ participants, it reveals innovative ways of imagining social structure. Clark proposes a view of the social world as in an embodied relationship with embodied selves.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of English, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, United Kingdom

    Jodie Clark

About the author

Jodie Clark is Senior Lecturer in English Language at Sheffield Hallam University, and Course Leader for the BA (honours) English degree. She is the author of Language, Sex and Social Structure (2012, Palgrave). She hosts an accessible podcast about her research ideas at www.structuredvisions.wordpress.com.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Selves, Bodies and the Grammar of Social Worlds

  • Book Subtitle: Reimagining Social Change

  • Authors: Jodie Clark

  • Series Title: Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59843-1

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-59842-4Published: 26 July 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95586-2Published: 30 May 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-59843-1Published: 13 July 2016

  • Series ISSN: 2946-5990

  • Series E-ISSN: 2946-6008

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 142

  • Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Development and Social Change

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