Douglas J Glick
Biographic Data
| ID | 753855 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Douglas J Glick |
| GIVEN NAMES | Douglas J |
| FAMILY NAME | Glick |
| SIGNATURE | GLICK D J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Binghamton University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Late-Night Infomercial as an Electronic Site of Ritual Self-Transformation: The Case of “Personal Power
This article argues that a late-night television infomercial displays the structure of a ritual rite of passage. It tracks how the infomercial creates a state of ideological liminality that is redressed by a series of poetic (linguistic) parallelisms. This culminates in a trope of incorporation that transforms the social identity of the viewer from “unsuccessful” to “successful.” Ritual in form yet electronic in medium, the conclusion relates the…
Language contextualization in a Hebrew language television interview: Lessons from a semiotic return to context
An interview on a Hebrew language television show serves as the stage for a semiotic reading that documents a particular type of language contextualization. Drawing on Peirce and Jakobson, the analysis of the interview reveals that it is characterized by a repeating indexical icon that comes to organize meaning in real-time through a kind of poetic parallelism. This type is then juxtaposed to approaches that presume a pre-existing social or cogni…
Dangerous noncompliance: A narrative analysis of a CNN special investigation of mental illness
Prevention of illness has become a central theme in debates over strategies to reduce healthcare costs. Severe mental illness poses a special challenge to the paradigm of rational prevention, the principal strategy of which is adherence to pharmacological therapies. With the contraction in the US of in-patient psychiatric care from the 1960s onwards, the mentally ill have become more visible among the homeless and among those caught up in the pen…
Some performative techniques of stand-up comedy: An exercise in the textuality of temporalization
Miriam A. Locher , Power and politeness in action: Disagreements in oral communication
Miriam A. Locher , Power and politeness in action: Disagreements in oral communication . Language, Power and Social Process, 12. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2004. Pp. xvi, 365. Pb. This is a study of the interface between power and politeness as manifested in verbal disagreements. It begins with a number of chapters devoted to a discussion of the key concepts that define the author's theoretical conceptualization of social interaction…
Possessing a Concept
Some performative techniques of stand-up comedy: An exercise in the textuality of temporalization
The Late-Night Infomercial as an Electronic Site of Ritual Self-Transformation: The Case of “Personal Power
This article argues that a late-night television infomercial displays the structure of a ritual rite of passage. It tracks how the infomercial creates a state of ideological liminality that is redressed by a series of poetic (linguistic) parallelisms. This culminates in a trope of incorporation that transforms the social identity of the viewer from “unsuccessful” to “successful.” Ritual in form yet electronic in medium, the conclusion relates the…
Possessing a Concept
Miriam A. Locher , Power and politeness in action: Disagreements in oral communication
Miriam A. Locher , Power and politeness in action: Disagreements in oral communication . Language, Power and Social Process, 12. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2004. Pp. xvi, 365. Pb. This is a study of the interface between power and politeness as manifested in verbal disagreements. It begins with a number of chapters devoted to a discussion of the key concepts that define the author's theoretical conceptualization of social interaction…
Some performative techniques of stand-up comedy: An exercise in the textuality of temporalization
Dangerous noncompliance: A narrative analysis of a CNN special investigation of mental illness
Prevention of illness has become a central theme in debates over strategies to reduce healthcare costs. Severe mental illness poses a special challenge to the paradigm of rational prevention, the principal strategy of which is adherence to pharmacological therapies. With the contraction in the US of in-patient psychiatric care from the 1960s onwards, the mentally ill have become more visible among the homeless and among those caught up in the pen…
Language contextualization in a Hebrew language television interview: Lessons from a semiotic return to context
An interview on a Hebrew language television show serves as the stage for a semiotic reading that documents a particular type of language contextualization. Drawing on Peirce and Jakobson, the analysis of the interview reveals that it is characterized by a repeating indexical icon that comes to organize meaning in real-time through a kind of poetic parallelism. This type is then juxtaposed to approaches that presume a pre-existing social or cogni…
The Late-Night Infomercial as an Electronic Site of Ritual Self-Transformation: The Case of “Personal Power
This article argues that a late-night television infomercial displays the structure of a ritual rite of passage. It tracks how the infomercial creates a state of ideological liminality that is redressed by a series of poetic (linguistic) parallelisms. This culminates in a trope of incorporation that transforms the social identity of the viewer from “unsuccessful” to “successful.” Ritual in form yet electronic in medium, the conclusion relates the…
Philosophy (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Conversation (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · History (2 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (2 works)