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Article published In: Journal of Language and Politics
Vol. 13:3 (2014) ► pp.473–489

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Village as a discursive space

The political study of a non-political community

 | University of Warwick |
Published online: 22 December 2014
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https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.13.3.05gol
Discourse analysis in both its theory and practice is traditionally concerned with politics. The sphere of the non-political rarely attracts attention of the researchers. It appears to be invisible to discourse theorists and unprivileged in empirical studies of discourse. This article aims at filling this gap. With the example of a Russian village it dwells on the discursive organisation of rural communities whose radically “personalised” world resists traditional approaches to political logic and suggests different modes of relations, agency, and power.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Politics and the studies in rural worlds
  • 3.Discourse and organisation of the social
  • 4.Discursive structure in the world of proper nouns
  • 5.Power in the world of proper nouns and “the weapon of the weak”
  • 6.Instead of conclusion: Non-political decision in the undecidable terrain
  • References
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