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Article: "Criers and shouters". The discourse on radical urban rebels in late medieval Flanders.(SECTION II PROTEST AND DEVIANCE)(Essay)
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- Journal of Social History
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- September 22, 2008
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In this contribution I want to consider elite discourses on late medieval Flemish urban rebels who tried to speak out politically. Following theoretical perspectives like John L. Austin's 'speech act theory', Pierre Bourdieu's insights in language and symbolic power and Norman Fairclough's 'critical discourse analysis', I consider discourse a form of social practice. (1) The social cannot be reduced to the discursive, as radical postmodernist historians would claim, but discourse is fundamental in constituting social relations. It has by now become a cliche that since the so-called linguistic turn in historical practice, the dividing lines between social history and ...