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Critical Sociolinguistic Research Methods is a guide to conducting concrete ethnographic and discourse analytic research projects, written by top scholars for students and researchers in social science fields. Adopting a critical perspective focusing on the role of language in the construction of social difference and social inequality, the authors walk the reader through five key moments in the life of a research project: composing research questions, designing the project, doing fieldwork, performing data analysis and writing academic texts or otherwise engaging in conversation with different types of social actors about the project. These moments are illustrated by colour-coded examples from the authors’ experiences that help researchers and students follow the sequential stages of a project.Now in its second edition, this popular and original text has been revised and updated to reflect the latest developments in this field, including expanded sections on the centrality of the ethnographic gaze for the understanding of social processes, and on experiences of diversification in the communication of research results. Through the adoption of multimodal genres, authors share recent experiences of research presentations addressed to non-academic audiences, such as installations and photography, and interactive maps.Clear and highly applicable, with a detailed workbook full of practical tips and examples, this book is a great resource for graduate-level qualitative methods courses in linguistics and anthropology, as well as methods courses in the humanities and social sciences that focus on the role of language in research. It is a timely text for investigating language issues that matter and have consequences for people’s lives.

Critical Sociolinguistic Research Methods is a guide to conducting concrete ethnographic and discourse analytic research projects, written by top scholars for students and researchers in social science fields. Adopting a critical perspective focusing on the role of language in the construction of social difference and social inequality, the authors walk the reader through five key moments in the life of a research project: composing research questions, designing the project, doing fieldwork, performing data analysis and writing academic texts or otherwise engaging in conversation with different types of social actors about the project. These moments are illustrated by colour-coded examples from the authors’ experiences that help researchers and students follow the sequential stages of a project.Now in its second edition, this popular and original text has been revised and updated to reflect the latest developments in this field, including expanded sections on the centrality of the ethnographic gaze for the understanding of social processes, and on experiences of diversification in the communication of research results. Through the adoption of multimodal genres, authors share recent experiences of research presentations addressed to non-academic audiences, such as installations and photography, and interactive maps.Clear and highly applicable, with a detailed workbook full of practical tips and examples, this book is a great resource for graduate-level qualitative methods courses in linguistics and anthropology, as well as methods courses in the humanities and social sciences that focus on the role of language in research. It is a timely text for investigating language issues that matter and have consequences for people’s lives.

Language is more than a tool for communication—it is a powerful force that shapes how knowledge is produced and understood. Studying Language, Producing Knowledge offers a clear and comprehensive introduction to discourse studies, demonstrating how language operates as social action. Anne Mäntynen and Sari Pietikäinen trace the evolution of the field, combining classic theories with contemporary approaches to show how discourse constructs meaning, identities, and social realities. Through an engaging blend of conceptual explanation and practical guidance, this textbook guides readers step by step through the process of analyzing discourse in real-world contexts. Each chapter provides key concepts, discussion points, and examples that help students move confidently from theory to research practice. Throughout the text, the authors highlight how discourse interacts with power, ideology, and change, and how the study of language can reveal the dynamics of knowledge production in today’s complex social world. Studying Language, Producing Knowledge is written for undergraduate and postgraduate students across language, communication, and cultural studies, as well as sociology and anthropology. It is ideal for courses on discourse analysis, language and society, or qualitative research methods, and serves as an essential guide for anyone seeking to understand how language shapes the ways we know and act.

This book is an original study of Cold Rush, an accelerated race for the extraction and protection of Arctic natural resources. The Northernmost reach of the planet is caught up in the double developments of two unfinished forces – rapidly progressing climate change and global economic investment - working simultaneously in tension and synergy. Neither process is linear or complete, but both are contradictory and open-ended. This book traces the multiplicity of Cold Rush in the Finnish Arctic, a high-stakes ecological, economic, and political hotspot. It is a heterogeneous space, understood as indigenous land within local indigenous Sámi people politics, the last frontier from a colonial perspective, and a periphery under the modernist nation-state regime. It is now transforming into an economic hub under global capitalism, intensifying climate change and unforeseen geo-political changes. Based on six years of ethnography, the book shows how people struggle, strategize, and profit from this ongoing, complex, and multidirectional change. The author offers a new theoretical approach called critical assemblage analysis, which provides an alternative way of exploring the dynamics between language and society by examining the interaction between material, discursive, and affective dimensions of Cold Rush. The approach builds on previous work at the intersection of critical discourse analysis, critical sociolinguistics, nexus analysis and ethnography, but expands toward works by philosophers Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, and Felix Guattari. This book will be of interest to researchers on language, discourse, and sociolinguistics interested in engaging with social critique embedded in global capitalism and accelerating climate change; as well as researchers in the social and human sciences and natural sciences, who are increasingly aware of the fact that the theoretical and analytical move beyond the traditional dichotomies like language/society, nature/human and micro/macro is central to understanding today´s complex, intertwined social, political, economic and ecological processes.

Kiehtova johdatus diskurssintutkimukseen, sen keskeisiin käsitteisiin ja uusimpiin avauksiin. Diskurssintutkimus perustuu ajatukseen, että kieli ja ihmisyhteisön toiminta ovat kietoutuneet yhteen. Se tutkii, mitä asioita ja miten kielellä tehdään. Miten diskurssintutkimuksessa analysoidaan kieltä? Mitä diskurssin käsite tarkoittaa? Entä konteksti tai genre? Diskursseja analysoimalla tutkitaan yhteiskuntaa ja yhteiskunnallisia ilmiöitä. Teos antaa perustiedot diskurssintutkimuksesta ja sen soveltamisesta, tavoitteenaan myös jakaa diskurssintutkijoiden hiljaista tietoa. Diskurssintutkimuksena ajattelutapaa havainnollistetaan runsailla arkiympäristöstä löytyvillä esimerkeillä. Kirjassa analysoidaan kielenkäytön ja sosiaalisen toiminnan suhdetta mm. mediassa ja mainoksissa, kuvissa ja kertomuksissa, kotona ja töissä. Kirja on soveltuu oppikirjaksi yliopistoihin ja ammattikorkeakouluihin erityisesti kielen-, viestinnän- ja kulttuurintutkimuksen sekä yhteiskunta- ja kasvatustieteiden opintoihin.

"Uusi kurssi kohti diskurssia" tarkastelee kielenkäytön ja sosiaalisen toiminnan suhdetta sekä kielen tapaa tuottaa merkitystä. Kirja tarjoaa ajantasaisen ja kiehtovan johdatuksen diskurssintutkimukseen, sen keskeisiin käsitteisiin ja uusimpiin avauksiin. Teos antaa keskeiset tiedot diskurssintutkimuksesta ja sen soveltamisesta. Lisäksi se nostaa esiin tiedon poliittisuuden ja tieteellisen tiedon merkityksen nykymaailmassa. Mukana on runsaasti käytännön esimerkkejä diskurssin voimasta mediassa ja politiikassa, kuvissa ja kertomuksissa, kotona, töissä ja koulussa. Kirja on suunnattu diskurssintutkimuksesta kiinnostuneille opiskelijoille, tutkijoille ja opettajille. Se on tietokirja, joka soveltuu oppikirjaksi yliopistoihin ja ammattikorkeakouluihin erityisesti kielen-, viestinnän- ja kulttuurintutkimuksen sekä yhteiskunta- ja kasvatustieteiden opintoihin. Teos on uusi, kauttaaltaan ajantasaistettu ja täydennetty versio vuonna 2009 ilmestyneestä "Kurssi kohti diskurssia" -teoksesta. Anne Mäntynen on suomen kielen tutkija, joka on toiminut suomen kielen professorina Helsingin ja Jyväskylän yliopistossa. Sari Pietikäinen on kielen ja vallan tutkija, joka työskentelee diskurssintutkimuksen professorina Jyväskylän yliopistossa.

Critical Sociolinguistic Research Methods is a guide to conducting concrete ethnographic and discourse analytic research projects, written by top scholars for students and researchers in social science fields. Adopting a critical perspective focusing on the role of language in the construction of social difference and social inequality, the authors walk the reader through five key moments in the life of a research project: composing research questions, designing the project, doing fieldwork, performing data analysis and writing academic texts or otherwise engaging in conversation with different types of social actors about the project. These moments are illustrated by colour-coded examples from the authors’ experiences that help researchers and students follow the sequential stages of a project. Clear and highly applicable, with a detailed workbook full of practical tips and examples, this book is a great resource for graduate-level qualitative methods courses in linguistics and anthropology, as well as methods courses in the humanities and social sciences that focus on the role of language in research. It is a timely text for investigating language issues that matter and have consequences for people’s lives.