Postmodernism, Historicism and Anthropology

Postmodernists use the term historicism (coined by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel) which basically means that any questions or queries about something must be considered within the social context within which the question arises. Much like in anthropology, in which a researcher must be conscious of their own ethnocentrism when exploring another culture, a historian must…

Disabled person or person with a disability – Does it matter?

There has and continues to be debate over the use of terminology around disability. Should the term be disabled person or person with a disability? While it might seem pejorative to some, it isn’t when you consider language as a whole. Language isn’t just a tool of communication generally, but to communicate ideas and meaning…

Discourse Analysis

Defining discourse analysis can be complicated, for example, Jaworski and Coupland (1999: 1–3) included ten definitions from a wide range of sources in their collection of papers on discourse analysis. However, all of the definitions fall into the three main categories (Tannen, Hamilton, and Schiffrin, 2015): Anything beyond the sentence Language use A broader range…