Beschreibung:
Originally published in 1999, and employing empirical studies of sociopolitical conflict in the west of Scotland, this book develops a distinctive, critical approach to the study of social consciousness, with an analytical priority to language-use.
Introduction. Part I: Developing the Approach. 1. Language, Ideology and Social Consciousness: A Critique of J.C. Scott. 2. L. S. Vygotsky and the Study of Consciousness. 3. 'Tool and Result': Use and Development. Part II: The Pragmatics of Emancipation. 4. The Pragmatics of Emancipation I: A Critical Review of the Work of Michael Huspek. 5 .Extending Vygotsky: Bakhtin, Voloshinov and J. V. Wrtsch. 6. The Pragmatics of Emancipation II: The Upper Clyde Shipbuilders Work-In, 1971-72. Part III: The Ferguslie Park 'Partnership'. 7. Ferguslie Park: From Exclusion to 'Partnership'. 8. The Dialogics of 'Partnership' and 'Community Action'.