Interdiscourse

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Interdiscourse is a term used in discourse analysis and, in contrast to special discourse , is used to denote all non-scientific discourses that are to be methodically analyzed. However, parts of the scientific discourse flow into the interdiscourse and are taken into account as elements in the analysis. The concept was largely worked out in France by Michel Pêcheux (1938–1983) and further developed in Germany by the literary scholar and discourse theorist Jürgen Link .

Like discourse analysis itself, the term originated in linguistics , but is also used in many other social and human sciences.

General

As an example of an interdiscourse, Jürgen Link , who developed the term interdiscourse, cites the statement made by young people: “When today's young people express themselves metaphorically in such a way that they have already deleted something on their hard drive , then they mention a certain in an extremely reduced-complexity way Knowledge from computer practice, which in turn is based on knowledge from computer science. ”Due to the high division of labor in modern societies, the various discourses rely on simplifying interdiscourses in their communication:“ An interdiscourse must therefore be able to be linked to several special discourses. In order to achieve this, he brings himself to the special discourse in a relationship between image and what is depicted: the interdiscourse provides an image space to which the special discourse can be related by analogy , and it refers not only to a special discourse, but immediately to several. ”The interdiscourse thus symbolically conveys discourses. Collective symbols are their most important components. The special discourses are not only dependent on the interdiscourse in order to be integrated into other discourses. The interdiscourse also serves to “enforce a meaning scheme that projects certain logics into the special discourse.” For example, in the interdiscourse between sports discourse and discourses from politics, the meaning scheme of sporting fairness with regard to a party can be conveyed, for example when it is expressed - the party xy have “one step ahead” in the survey - which (also) should mean that they adhere to certain rules that correspond to those that opponents follow in fair, sporting competitions.

Interdiscourse in the media

The interdiscourse has a particular effect in the media, which operate on the principle of "picking up viewers where they are". Interdiscourses are very simplified "and prepared for subjective identification".

differentiation

Jürgen Link differentiates between the discourse types interdiscourse and special discourse, since both discourses ( Foucault ) relate to a different audience in their sayable fields and knowledge spaces - or image spaces in interdiscourse. Link considers such a fundamental distinction, in contrast to Luhmann's system theories, to be necessary in order to avoid “erroneous homogenizations”.

literature

  • Rainer Diaz-Bone (2006, April). Operative connections: On the emergence of Foucault's discourse analysis in the Federal Republic. Jürgen Link in conversation with Rainer Diaz-Bone [38 paragraphs]. Forum Qualitative Social Research / Forum: Qualitative Social Research [On-line Journal], 7 (3), Art. 20. Available from: [1] [Accessed: January 21, 2007].
  • Siegfried Jäger (2004): Critical Discourse Analysis. An introduction. ISBN 3-89771-732-8
  • Jürgen Link , Basic Concepts in Literary Studies, UTB, Stuttgart 1997 ISBN 3-8252-0305-0

Magazines

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Rainer Diaz-Bone (2006, April)
  2. ↑ a b c University of Essen: Jürgen Link

Web links

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