When Fiction Invades Prose: Non-Canonical Discursive Practices in Academic Discourse

This article focuses on two non-canonical Master's dissertations with a view to exploring the conditions of possibility for their emergence. The argument in the article is twofold: 1) the dissertations challenge the controlling principle of "commentary" (FOUCAULT, 1996), but do not em...

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Published inLinguagem em (dis)curso Vol. 5; no. 2; pp. 249 - 266
Main Author Balocco, Anna Elizabeth
Format Journal Article
LanguagePortuguese
Published 01.01.2005
Subjects
Academic Language
Critical Discourse Analysis
Discourse/Text Genres
Literary Criticism
Portuguese
Prose
Social Functions of Language
Subjectivity
Symbolism
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ISSN1518-7632
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Summary:This article focuses on two non-canonical Master's dissertations with a view to exploring the conditions of possibility for their emergence. The argument in the article is twofold: 1) the dissertations challenge the controlling principle of "commentary" (FOUCAULT, 1996), but do not emerge exclusively as social practices that reject it, & are thus partially governed by that principle; 2) three symbolic dimensions have been identified, which might account for the plurality of discursive positions that govern the emergence of these non-canonical practices: a local dimension, that of a particular institution; a disciplinary dimension, that of studies in the area of literature; a broader dimension, related to the epistemological paradigms operating in the discipline. Towards the end of the article, a few comments are made about the relationship between the symbolic, as the locus of discursive mediation, & social practices, the locus for the emergence of the subject (LACLAU, 2000). 24 References. Adapted from the source document
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ISSN:1518-7632
1518-7632