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Discourse Studies is an interdisciplinary field studying the social production of meaning across the entire spectrum of the social sciences and humanities. The Discourse Studies Reader brings together 40 key readings from discourse researchers in Europe and North America, some of which are now translated into English for the first time. Divided into seven sections – ‘Theoretical Inspirations: Structuralism versus Pragmatics’, ‘From Structuralism to Poststructuralism’, ‘Enunciative Pragmatics’, ‘Interactionism’, ‘Sociopragmatics’, ‘Historical Knowledge’ and ‘Critical Approaches’ – The Discourse Studies Reader offers a comprehensive overview of the main currents in discourse studies, both discourse theory and discourse analysis. With short introductions elaborating the broader context, the sections present key selections from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds by placing them into their respective epistemological traditions. The Discourse Studies Reader is an indispensable textbook for students and scholars alike who are interested in discourse theoretical questions and working with discourse analytical methods.
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The Discourse Studies Reader
The Discourse Studies Reader Main currents in theory and analysis edited by Johannes Angermuller University of Warwick / École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris
Dominique Maingueneau University of Paris-Sorbonne
Ruth Wodak Lancaster University
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The Discourse Studies Reader : Main currents in theory and analysis / Edited by Johannes Angermuller, Dominique Maingueneau and Ruth Wodak. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Discourse analysis. 2. Discourse analysis--Methodology. I. Angermuller, Johannes, 1973- editor of compilation. II. Maingueneau, Dominique, editor of compilation. III. Wodak, Ruth, 1950- editor of compilation. P302.D565 2014 401’.41--dc23 isbn 978 90 272 1210 8 (Hb ; alk. paper) isbn 978 90 272 1211 5 (Pb ; alk. paper) isbn 978 90 272 7018 4 (Eb)
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Table of contents Preface The Discourse Studies Reader: An introduction I. Theoretical inspirations: Structuralism versus pragmatics
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Introduction 17 Ferdinand de Saussure: The value of the sign 21 Mikhail Bakhtin: Polyphonic discourse in the novel 27 Zellig S. Harris: Towards a distributionalist method 36 George Herbert Mead: Thought, communication and the significant symbol 41 Ludwig Wittgenstein: Communication as a language game 48 John L. Austin: Performing speech 54 H. Paul Grice: Using language to mean something 60
II. From structuralism to poststructuralism Introduction 71 Jacques Lacan: The divided subject 77 Louis Althusser: The subjectivity effect of discourse 83 Michel Pêcheux: From ideology to discourse 89 Michel Foucault: An archaeology of discourse 98 Stuart Hall: Encoding and decoding the message 111 Ernesto Laclau: The impossibility of society 122 Judith Butler: Speaking to the postcolonial Other 127
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