Terkko Navigator / Power without domination : dialogism and the empowering property of communication

Power Without Domination; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Contents; Foreword; I. Discourse and Power in Dialogical Perspective; 1. Two dogmas of discourse analysis; 2. 'Discussion as a war'?; 3. Euphemism and co-operation in discourse; II. Dialogical Constraints on Verbal Interaction; 4. Pragmatic goals and communicative strategies in journalistic discourse under censorship; 5. Read me that sentence; 6. Power and knowledge; Conclusion; Subject Index; The series Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture. The volume provides a multidisciplinary approach of the discursive dimension of power. It challenges the usual conception of discourse and power that underlies most of the current theories in contemporary discourse analysis, and shows that it is unsatisfying in so far as it reduces power to domination and discourse to power technology. In opposition to such a conception, an alternative model of power-in-discourse is constructed. It is called "Dialogical Model" in accordance with its being grounded in a dialogical conception of discourse that naturally leads to a participative conception of pow.