Discourse

  Dr. Michael Hadzatonis spoke on the subject of Discourse Analysis in Linguistic Anthropology (Part 2) on October 16, 2019, at a seminar organized by the Language Research Center.   Hadzantonis focused on Goffman's Frame theory. He stated, "Erving Goffman stipulated that instances of talk should be complexified, and that talk becomes recontextualized, predicated on its current or situated 'frame, 'following work on Frame theory by anthropologist Gregory Bates. As such, Erving Goffman suggested a methodological framework to separate the speaker into four parts: The producer, the mediator, the author, and the figure. The framework also separated the hearer into multiple parts, including the ratified audience, the unratified audience, eavesdroppers, and bystanders."   Hadzantonis added that in the 1980s, rap music changed significantly from Early New School rap to Golden Age New School rap, where the figure, that is, the person or a subject referred to in the telling, shifted from self (the rapper) to societal issue (for example drugs or violence). This signified a marked shift in rap music and in society at large, grounding Goffman as highly relevant to modern society. The talk emphasized the possibility of employing a simple analytical framework as a Discourse Analytical technique in Linguistic Anthropology, where the framework can contribute to understanding ways in which we see rap music as restylized diachronically.   The seminar was a great success. King Abdullah Road campus also participated in the seminar. Date: 11/5/2019 Source: Mohammad Adil Siddique

  Dr. Michael Hadzatonis spoke on the subject of Discourse Analysis in Linguistic Anthropology (Part 2) on October 16, 2019, at a seminar organized by the Language Research Center.   Hadzantonis focused on Goffman's Frame theory. He stated, "Erving Goffman stipulated that instances of talk should be complexified, and that talk becomes recontextualized, predicated on its current or situated 'frame, 'following work on Frame theory by anthropologist Gregory Bates. As such, Erving Goffman suggested a methodological framework to separate the speaker into four parts: The producer, the mediator, the author, and the figure. The framework also separated the hearer into multiple parts, including the ratified audience, the unratified audience, eavesdroppers, and bystanders."   Hadzantonis added that in the 1980s, rap music changed significantly from Early New School rap to Golden Age New School rap, where the figure, that is, the person or a subject referred to in the telling, shifted from self (the rapper) to societal issue (for example drugs or violence). This signified a marked shift in rap music and in society at large, grounding Goffman as highly relevant to modern society. The talk emphasized the possibility of employing a simple analytical framework as a Discourse Analytical technique in Linguistic Anthropology, where the framework can contribute to understanding ways in which we see rap music as restylized diachronically.   The seminar was a great success. King Abdullah Road campus also participated in the seminar. Date: 11/5/2019 Source: Mohammad Adil Siddique

Associate Professor Michael Hadzantonis conducted a workshop on Frame Theory and Footing in Linguistic Anthropological Analysis, which was organized by the Language Research Center of King Khalid University, on November 14, 2018. He provided an in-depth explanation of ‘Footing and Framing Theory,’ a theory based on the ways in which discourse is contextually deconstructed and anthropologized. AP Hadzantonis, while highlighting the history of this theory, discussed Erving Goffman, who pioneered micro-sociology, who evidenced social constructions of the self, and who subsequently developed concepts of framing and frame analysis. While including mention of Volosinov (1929; 1973), Hadzantonis substantiated the shortcomings of the study of language structures, and hence one that rigidly overlooks context and is therefore isolated from social life. To remedy for this, he added, is to emphasize reported speech, as its structures expose active relations between messages. AP Hadzantonis emphasized the pragmatic applications of Footing and Framing. An effective application of this, he suggested, exposes multi-party sequences of talk of different participants and evidence actions of hearers and multi-party interactive organization of utterances. It also models analyses of types of speakers coexisting within speech. He finally demonstrated a diagrammatic model of a participation framework. The Part 1 session was informative, interactive, and thought-provoking, and leads into the forthcoming Part 2. Date: 11/14/2018 Source: Mohammad Adil Siddique Multimedia Source: Mohammed Jabir

Associate Professor Michael Hadzantonis conducted a workshop on Frame Theory and Footing in Linguistic Anthropological Analysis, which was organized by the Language Research Center of King Khalid University, on November 14, 2018. He provided an in-depth explanation of ‘Footing and Framing Theory,’ a theory based on the ways in which discourse is contextually deconstructed and anthropologized. AP Hadzantonis, while highlighting the history of this theory, discussed Erving Goffman, who pioneered micro-sociology, who evidenced social constructions of the self, and who subsequently developed concepts of framing and frame analysis. While including mention of Volosinov (1929; 1973), Hadzantonis substantiated the shortcomings of the study of language structures, and hence one that rigidly overlooks context and is therefore isolated from social life. To remedy for this, he added, is to emphasize reported speech, as its structures expose active relations between messages. AP Hadzantonis emphasized the pragmatic applications of Footing and Framing. An effective application of this, he suggested, exposes multi-party sequences of talk of different participants and evidence actions of hearers and multi-party interactive organization of utterances. It also models analyses of types of speakers coexisting within speech. He finally demonstrated a diagrammatic model of a participation framework. The Part 1 session was informative, interactive, and thought-provoking, and leads into the forthcoming Part 2. Date: 11/14/2018 Source: Mohammad Adil Siddique Multimedia Source: Mohammed Jabir