Vol. 6, Issue 2, Part E (2024)

This essay examines relevance of discourse analysis to what is an established scholarly field dedicated towards studies of language, society and identity. In particular, it provides a systematic critique of the primary research that analyses linguistic exchanges and micro-local and meso-level configurations of scenes. Discussed is how restrictions, affordances, practices, rules and regulations are made and managed, as well as socially organised by talk-in-interaction with bay on forming institutions, specifically institutions addressing discrimination, power relations, or justice. Followed by several insights from these studies, the essay reviews critical themes in qualitative social science inquiry and research methodology that motivated these investigations: More specifically, this literature includes themes such as power, ideology, intersectionality and so on.
This abstract introduces a critical review of relevant studies concerned with linguistic interactions and contributes two types of analyses: Firstly, it illustrates (1) how the form of embodiment people offer in feasible social relations and interaction is partly co-fashioned by how their embodiment comes into material existence in space, and secondly, how the mode of motility that defines movement is dynamically accomplished in the course of talk-in-interaction. Possible strategies for making racism, prejudice, and discrimination more prominently featured but subtle in the indexing of the social cancer of racism and hate, in every talk-in-interaction, are discussed. This paper will conclude by showing why intersectionality’s role in discourse analysis is crucial.