Quotidian Rhetoric Creates Meaning through Collage

Language is fluid. It both shapes and reflects changes in society and local communities. Discourse is made up of ideologies and ethical systems held by the users of that language and their communities that create and continue to cultivate the language. As Norman Fairclough argues in Discourse and So...

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Published inStreet Sex Workers' Discourse pp. 1 - 13
Main Author McCracken, Jill
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published United Kingdom Routledge 2013
Taylor & Francis Group
Edition1
Subjects
Gender studies, gender groups
Sociology: sexual relations
Sex Work
Exchange Sex
Contingent Boundaries
Street Sex Workers
LGB
Normative Regime
LGBTQ Youth
Gem
Street Economies
Crack Cocaine
LGBTQ Teen
White Heterosexual
Street Based Sex Work
Language Awareness
Young Men
Crack Pipe
Bug's Life
Influential Material
Fixed Material
Agential Choice
Momentary Permanence
Priestess
Term Prostitute
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Summary:Language is fluid. It both shapes and reflects changes in society and local communities. Discourse is made up of ideologies and ethical systems held by the users of that language and their communities that create and continue to cultivate the language. As Norman Fairclough argues in Discourse and Social Change: Discourses do not just reflect or represent social entities and relations, they construct or "constitute" them; different discourses constitute key entities [...] in different ways, and position people in different ways as social subjects [...] and it is these social effects of discourse that are focused upon in discourse analysis. (p. 3-4)
ISBN:9780415887076
1138952516
9781138952515
0415887070
DOI:10.4324/9780203384992-1