Posthumanism and Deconstructing Arguments

<p><em>Posthumanism and Deconstructing Arguments: Corpora and Digitally-driven Critical Analysis</em> presents a new and practical approach in Critical Discourse Studies. Providing a data-driven and ethically-based method for the examination of arguments in the public sphere this ground-breaking book:</p><p></p><ul> <br><br><li>Highlights how the reader can evaluate arguments from points of view other than their own;</li> <br><br><li>Demonstrates how digital tools can be used to generate ‘ethical subjectivities’ from large numbers of dissenting voices on the world-wide-web;</li> <br><br><li>Draws on ideas from posthumanist philosophy as well as from Jacques Derrida Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari for theorising these subjectivities;</li> <br><br><li>Showcases a critical deconstructive approach using different corpus linguistic programs such as AntConc WMatrix and Sketchengine.</li> </ul><p></p><p>Posthumanism and Deconstructing Arguments is essential reading for lecturers and researchers with an interest in critical discourse studies critical thinking corpus linguistics and digital humanities.</p>