Lapping, Claudia (2008) The ethics of interpretation: the signifying chain from field to analysis. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 29 (1). pp. 69-83. ISSN 0159-6306 (print); 1469-3739 (electronic)
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Abstract
This paper attempts to describe the relationship between the embodied practice of fieldwork and the written articulation of this experience. Starting from Valerie Hey's conceptualisation of 'rapport' as form of 'intersubjective synergy', a moment of recognition of similarity within difference – similar in structure to Laclau and Moufffe's conceptualization of hegemony – the paper explores how we can understand these moments of recognition as positioned within a complex web of signifying chains that interlink social, psychic and linguistic means of representation. Laclau and Mouffe's logics of equivalence and difference and Lacan's account of the production of meaning through metaphor and metonymy provide a theoretical language through which to explore chains of meaning in two fragments of data drawn from a study comparing disciplines and institutions in higher education. My argument is that an awareness of these processes of production of meaning is necessary to the development of an ethical mode of interpretation.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | This is an electronic version of an article published in Lapping, Claudia (2008) The ethics of interpretation: the signifying chain from field to analysis. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 29 (1). pp. 69-83. Discourse is available online at: http://www.informaworld.com/10.1080/01596300701801351 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | metaphor, metonymy, chain of signifiers, contingency, hegemony, 'rapport' |
| Subjects: | Departments > Learning, Curriculum and Communication |
| Depositing User: | IOE Repository Editor (1) |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Feb 2010 11:32 |
| Last Modified: | 26 Jun 2012 22:24 |
| URI: | http://eprints.ioe.ac.uk/id/eprint/964 |
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