Description
This Discourse Studies Reader provides a unique collection of theoretical readings from various strands of discourse research in Europe and North America, from various disciplines in the social sciences and the humanities (linguistics, sociology, philosophy, anthropology, history), and from various schools of structuralist and poststructuralist thought. Under the rubrics: enunciative pragmatics, interactionism, sociopragmatics and critical approaches to the study of discourse, it is the first collection of readings to represent discourse research as a transdisciplinary and transnational field of research, that includes, besides the usual canon of Anglo-Saxon research, such well-known French scholars as Benveniste, Pêcheux, Ducrot, and Maingueneau, and such German and Austrian scholars as Habermas, Ehlich, Luckmann, and Wodak. Discourse analysis cannot be separated from ethical or societal concerns. One of the most valuable characteristics of this Reader is its interest in the discursive dimensions of power and injustice, and in social and cultural change.
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Section I. Theoretical inspirations: Structuralism versus pragmatics
Section I. Theoretical inspirations: Structuralism versus pragmatics
Ferdinand de Saussure: The value of the sign
Ferdinand de Saussure: The value of the sign
Mikhail Bakhtin: Polyphonic discourse in the novel
Mikhail Bakhtin: Polyphonic discourse in the novel
Zellig S. Harris: Towards a distributionalist method
Zellig S. Harris: Towards a distributionalist method
George Herbert Mead: Thought, communication and the significant symbol
George Herbert Mead: Thought, communication and the significant symbol
Ludwig Wittgenstein: Communication as a language game
Ludwig Wittgenstein: Communication as a language game
John L. Austin: Performing speech
John L. Austin: Performing speech
H. Paul Grice: Using language to mean something
H. Paul Grice: Using language to mean something
Section II. From structuralism to poststructuralism
Section II. From structuralism to poststructuralism
Jacques Lacan: The divided subject
Jacques Lacan: The divided subject
Louis Althusser: The subjectivity effect of discourse
Louis Althusser: The subjectivity effect of discourse
Michel Pêcheux: From ideology to discourse
Michel Pêcheux: From ideology to discourse
Michel Foucault: An archaeology of discourse
Michel Foucault: An archaeology of discourse
Stuart Hall: Encoding and decoding the message
Stuart Hall: Encoding and decoding the message
Ernesto Laclau: The impossibility of society
Ernesto Laclau: The impossibility of society
Judith Butler: Speaking to the postcolonial Other
Judith Butler: Speaking to the postcolonial Other
Section III. Enunciative pragmatics
Section III. Enunciative pragmatics
Émile Benveniste: The formal apparatus of enunciation
Émile Benveniste: The formal apparatus of enunciation
Dominique Maingueneau: The scene of enunciation
Dominique Maingueneau: The scene of enunciation
Jacqueline Authier-Revuz: Enunciative heterogeneity
Jacqueline Authier-Revuz: Enunciative heterogeneity
Oswald Ducrot: Enunciative polyphony
Oswald Ducrot: Enunciative polyphony
Johannes Angermuller: Subject positions in polyphonic discourse
Johannes Angermuller: Subject positions in polyphonic discourse
Section IV. Interactionism
Section IV. Interactionism
Harvey Sacks: Turn-taking in conversations
Harvey Sacks: Turn-taking in conversations
Erving Goffman: Tacit knowledge in interaction
Erving Goffman: Tacit knowledge in interaction
John Gumperz: Intercultural encounters
John Gumperz: Intercultural encounters
Aaron V. Cicourel: Maintaining one’s self
Aaron V. Cicourel: Maintaining one’s self
James Paul Gee: Language as saying, doing and being
James Paul Gee: Language as saying, doing and being
Jonathan Potter: Discourse and social psychology
Jonathan Potter: Discourse and social psychology
Section V. Sociopragmatics
Section V. Sociopragmatics
Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday: Language as social semiotic
Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday: Language as social semiotic
Theo van Leeuwen: The representation of actors
Theo van Leeuwen: The representation of actors
Konrad Ehlich: Text and discourse
Konrad Ehlich: Text and discourse
Patrick Charaudeau: Discourse strategies and the constraints of communication
Patrick Charaudeau: Discourse strategies and the constraints of communication
Ruth Amossy: Argumentation and discourse analysis
Ruth Amossy: Argumentation and discourse analysis
John Swales: Genre and discourse community
John Swales: Genre and discourse community
Section VI. Historical knowledge
Section VI. Historical knowledge
Régine Robin: History and linguistics
Régine Robin: History and linguistics
Reinhart Koselleck: Conceptual history
Reinhart Koselleck: Conceptual history
Dietrich Busse and Wolfgang Teubert: Using corpora for historical semantics
Dietrich Busse and Wolfgang Teubert: Using corpora for historical semantics
Thomas Luckmann: Communicative genres
Thomas Luckmann: Communicative genres
Section VII. Critical approaches
Section VII. Critical approaches
Jürgen Habermas: A normative conception of discourse
Jürgen Habermas: A normative conception of discourse
Jan Blommaert and Jef Verschueren: A pragmatics of the cultural other
Jan Blommaert and Jef Verschueren: A pragmatics of the cultural other
Norman Fairclough: A critical agenda for education
Norman Fairclough: A critical agenda for education
Teun A. van Dijk: Discourse, cognition, society
Teun A. van Dijk: Discourse, cognition, society
Ruth Wodak: exclusion: Xenophobia, racism and anti-Semitism
Ruth Wodak: exclusion: Xenophobia, racism and anti-Semitism
The Discourse Studies Reader
：Main currents in theory and analysis
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