The Discourse Studies Reader

Main currents in theory and analysis

Editors

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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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.

[Not in series, 184] 2014. ix, 417 pp.

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https://doi.org/10.1075/z.184

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
The Discourse Studies Reader. An Introduction Johannes Angermuller, Dominique Maingueneau and Ruth Wodak	1–14
1. Theoretical Inspirations: Structuralism versus Pragmatics
Introduction	17–20
Ferdinand de Saussure: The value of the sign	21
1959[1906-1911]. Course in General Linguistics, translated by Wade Baskin, selected 114–117, 120–122. New York: Philosophical Library Ferdinand de Saussure	22–26
Mikhail Bakhtin: Polyphonic discourse in the novel	27
1981[1934-1935]. ‘Discourse in the Novel’. In The Dialogic Imagination. Four Essays, 259–422, selected 261–265, 268–275. Austin: University of Texas Press Mikhail Bakhtin	28–35
Zellig S. Harris: Towards a distributionalist method	36
1952. Language, 28 (1): 1–30, selected 1–3, 29–30 Zellig S. Harris	37–40
George Herbert Mead: Thought, communication, and the significant symbol	41
1934. Mind, Self, and Society from the Standpoint of a Social Behaviorist, edited by Charles W. Morris. Chicago: University of Chicago, selected 68-75 George Herbert Mead	42–47
Ludwig Wittgenstein: Communication as a language game	48
1997[1953]: Philosophische Untersuchungen / Philosophical Investigations, selected remarks (Bemerkungen) 1-6, 10, 11, 23-26, 29, 30, 43. Oxford: Blackwell Ludwig Wittgenstein	49–53
John L. Austin: Performing speech	54
1979[1961]. ‘The Meaning of a Word.’ In Philosophical Papers, 3rd edition, 55-75, selected 56–62, 72–75. Oxford: Oxford University Press John L. Austin	55–59
H. Paul Grice: Using language to mean something	60
1957. ‘Meaning.’ Philosophical Review 66: 377–388, presently published by Duke University Press H. Paul Grice	61–68
2. From Structuralism to Poststructuralism
Introduction	71–76
Jacques Lacan: The divided subject	77
1970–1971. Seminar XVIII. On a discourse that might not be a semblance. selected 1–8. Online source, translated by Cormac Gallagher Jacques Lacan	78–82
Louis Althusser: The subjectivity effect of discourse	83
2003[1966]. ‘Three Notes on the Theory of Discourses.’ In The Humanist Controversy and Other Writings (1966-67), 33-84, selected 47–53. London, New York: Verso. Louis Althusser	84–88
Michel Pêcheux: From ideology to discourse	89
1975. ‘Mises au point et perspectives à propos de l’analyse automappptique du discours.’ Langages 37: 7–80, selected 7–16, 20–22. Anonymous translator Michel Pêcheux and Catherine Fuchs	90–97
Michel Foucault: An archaeology of discourse	98
2001[1968]. ‘Réponse à une question.’ In Dits et écrits, I, 701–723, selected 702–715. Paris: Gallimard. Anonymous translator. Michel Foucault	99–110
Stuart Hall: Encoding and decoding the message	111
1980[1973]. ‘Encoding, decoding.’ In Culture, Media, Language. Working Papers in Cultural Studies, 1972-1979, ed. by Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, 128-138. London: Routledge Stuart Hall	112–121
Ernesto Laclau: The impossibility of society	122
1990. ‘The Impossibility of Society.’ In New Reflections on the Revolution of Our Time, 89–92. London, New York: Verso Ernesto Laclau	123–126
Judith Butler: Speaking to the postcolonial Other	127
2008. ‘Violence, Nonviolence. Sartre on Fanon.’ In Race after Sartre, ed. by Jonathan Judaken, 211–232, selected 211–215. Albany: SUNY Press Judith Butler	128–132
3. Enunciative Pragmatics
Introduction	135–139
Émile Benveniste: The formal apparatus of enunciation	140
1970. ‘L’appareil formel de l’énonciation.’ Langages 17 (5): 12–18, selected 12–18. Anonymous translator. Émile Benveniste	141–145
Dominique Maingueneau: The scene of enunciation	146
2003. ‘La situation d’énonciation entre langue et discours.’ In Dix ans de S.D.U., edited by the Association des chercheurs en linguistique française, 197–209, selected 198–206. Craiova: Editura Universitaria Craiova Dominique Maingueneau	147–154
Jacqueline Authier-Revuz: Enunciative heterogeneity	155
1984. ‘Hétérogénéité(s) énonciative(s).’ Langages 73: 98-111, selected 99–107. Anonymous translator Jacqueline Authier-Revuz	156–165
Oswald Ducrot: Enunciative polyphony	166
1984. Le Dire et le dit. Paris, Minuit, selected 171, 189–192, 203–210. Anonymous translator Oswald Ducrot	167–175
Johannes Angermuller: Subject positions in polyphonic discourse	176
2014. Poststructuralist Discourse Analysis. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave. Johannes Angermuller	177–186
4. Interactionism
Introduction	189–193
Harvey Sacks: Turn-taking in conversations	194
1992[1964]. ‘Lecture 1. Rules of Conversational Sequence.’ In Lectures on Conversation. Vol. I, 3–11. Oxford, Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Harvey Sacks	195–203
Erving Goffman: Tacit knowledge in interaction	204
1983. ‘Felicity’s Condition.’ American Journal of Sociology 89 (1): 1–53, selected 1–9, 48–51. Erving Goffman	205–216
John Gumperz: Intercultural encounters	217
1982. Discourse Strategies. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, selected 1-7. John J. Gumperz	218–223
Aaron V. Cicourel: Maintaining one’s self	224
2011. ‘The effect of neurodegenerative disease on representations of self in discourse.’ Neurocase: The Neural Basis of Cognition 17 (3): 251–259, selected 251-253, 254, 255-256, 257-259 Aaron V. Cicourel	225–233
James Paul Gee: Language as saying, doing and being	234
2010. An Introduction to Discourse Analysis. Theory and Method. 3rd edition. New York, London: Routledge, selected 2–10. James Paul Gee	235–243
Jonathan Potter: Discourse and social psychology	244
2012. ‘Re-reading Discourse and Social Psychology: Transforming social psychology’ British Journal of Social Psychology 51(3): 436-455, selected 436-438, 442, 443-444, 446-447, 448-450. Jonathan Potter	245–256
5. Sociopragmatics
Introduction	259–262
Michael A.K. Halliday: Language as social semiotic	263
1993[1975]. ‘Language as Social Semiotic.’ In Language and Literacy, ed. by Janet Maybin, 23-43, selected 23–29. Clevedon: Open University M.A.K. Halliday †	264–271
Theo van Leeuwen: The representation of actors	272
1996. ‘The Representation of Social Actors.’ In Texts and Practices: Readings in Critical Discourse Analysis, ed. by Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard & Malcolm Coulthard, 32–70, selected 32-36, 36-42. London: Routledge Theo van Leeuwen	273–281
Konrad Ehlich: Text and discourse	282
1987. ‘Text and Discourse: A plea for clarity in analysis and terminology.’ In Proceedings of the 14th International Congress of Linguistics, ed. by Bahner, Schildt, and Viehweger, 2050–2052. Berlin: Akademie Verlag. Konrad Ehlich	283–285
Patrick Charaudeau: Discourse strategies and the constraints of communication	286
2002. ‘A communicative conception of discourse.’ Discourse studies 4 (3): 301–318, selected 301-302, 309–316 Patrick Charaudeau	287–296
Ruth Amossy: Argumentation and discourse analysis	297
2008. ‘Argumentation et Analyse du discours: perspectives théoriques et découpages disciplinaires.’ Argumentation et Analyse du discours [online], 1, selected paragraphs 1-18. Access 6.9.2008, http://aad.revues.org/200. Anonymous translator. Ruth Amossy	298–304
John Swales: Genre and discourse community	305
1990. Genre analysis: English in academic and research settings. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, selected 45–47, 52–60 John M. Swales	306–316
6. Historical Knowledge
Introduction	319–323
Régine Robin: History and linguistics	324
1973. Histoire et linguistique. Paris: Armand Colin, selected 21–26. Anonymous translator Régine Robin	325–331
Reinhart Koselleck: Conceptual history	332
1994. ‘Some Reflections on the Temporal Structure of Conceptual Change.’ In Main Trends in Cultural History. Ten Essays, ed. by Willem Melching & Wyger Velema, 7-16, selected 7-8, 10-16. Amsterdam: Rodopi Reinhart Koselleck	333–339
Dietrich Busse and Wolfgang Teubert: Using corpora for historical semantics	340
1994. ‘Ist Diskurs ein sprachwissenschaftliches Objekt? Zur Methodenfrage der historischen Semantik.’ In Begriffsgeschichte und Diskursgeschichte, ed. by Dietrich Busse, Fritz Hermanns, and Wolfgang Teubert, 10–28, selected 10–19. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag. Translated by Chris Newton and Johannes Angermuller. Dietrich Busse and Wolfgang Teubert	341–349
Thomas Luckmann: Communicative genres	350
1985. ‘Grundformen der gesellschaftlichen Vermittlung des Wissens: Kommunikative Gattungen.’ In Kultur und Gesellschaft, ed. by Friedhelm Neidhardt, M. Rainer Lepsius, and Johannes Weiss, 191–211, selected 200–211. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag. Translated and adapted by Chris Newton and Johannes Angermuller Thomas Luckmann	351–356
7. Critical approaches
Introduction	359–364
Jürgen Habermas: A normative conception of discourse	365
2001. ‘Reflections on the Linguistic Foundation of Sociology: The Christian Gauss Lecture, Princeton University, February-March 1971.’ In On the Pragmatics of Social Interaction. Preliminary Studies in the Theory of Communicative Action, 1-105, selected 100-105. Cambridge: Polity/Oxford: Blackwell Jürgen Habermas	366–368
Jan Blommaert and Jef Verschueren: A pragmatics of the cultural other	369
1998. Debating Diversity. Analysing the Discourse of Tolerance. London: Routledge, selected 32-38 Jan Blommaert † and Jef Verschueren	370–377
Norman Fairclough: A critical agenda for education	378
2004. ‘Semiotic aspects of social transformation and learning.’ In An Introduction to Critical Discourse Analysis in Education, ed. by R. Rogers, 225–235. Lawrence Erlbaum Norman Fairclough	379–387
Teun A. van Dijk: Discourse, cognition, society	388
2009. ‘Critical Discourse Studies: A Sociocognitive Approach.’ In Methods for Critical Discourse Analysis, ed. by Ruth Wodak & Michael Meyer, 62-86, selected 62-67, 75-80. London: Sage. Teun A. van Dijk	389–399
Ruth Wodak: Discourses of exclusion: Xenophobia, eacism and anti-Semitism	400
2007. ‘Pragmatics and Critical Discourse Analysis. A cross-disciplinary Analysis.’ Pragmatics and Cognition, 15 (1): 203–225, selected 203–207, 215–218 Ruth Wodak	401–410
Index	411–417

“Year after year, I had huge difficulties in guiding students through the diversity of theories and traditions in discourse studies. Now I have found the book we all need, and not only our students. For the first time in my life I read a book with such an inspiring selection of classic articles. I am really impressed. And thanks to the editors, all ‘text’ is presented in ‘co-text’, with seven insightful overviews of the sections and forty introductory notes to the articles. If I could start my study again…”

Jan Renkema, Tilburg University

“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.”

Claire Kramsch, UC Berkeley

“The editors of this reader are to be congratulated for assembling in one place the most comprehensive and influential collection of papers in the field of discourse studies. Linked together by a compelling transdisciplinary view of discourse, the volume traces the main theoretical and methodological currents in the field since the 1960s, including an impressive array of authors and a fascinating range of viewpoints. This is a rich contribution to the intellectual history of discourse studies and an invaluable sourcebook for anyone interested in the study of language.”

Ken Hyland, The University of Hong Kong

“The volume is an ideal reading for graduate students and early career researchers who are looking forward to broadening their theoretical understandings of DS.”

Sibo Chen, Simon Fraser University, on Linguist List 26.2000 (April 2015)

“Der vorliegende Reader stellt eine gewichtige und in vielerlei Hinsicht sehr instruktive Sammlung von Texten aus dem heterogenen Forschungsfeld der Diskursforschung dar. Für Leserinnen und Leser, die das Feld noch nicht kennen, bietet er gebündelt eine ganze Reihe grundlegender Texte, die durch die narrative Struktur des Buchs und die begleitenden Texte der HerausgeberInnen auch gleich entsprechend vorsortiert und interpretativ gerahmt sind.”

Jürgen Spitzmüller, University of Vienna, in Zeitschrift für Diskursforschung Heft 1/2015

“The reader is a key contribution to the field of Discourse Studies. Not only does The Discourse Studies Reader include key readings, it also frames them and the areas they belong to. By thus facilitating the construction of a story about this field, and by stressing the interdisciplinary nature of Discourse Studies, presenting writings from a variety of disciplines side by side, the reader is an excellent source for all those interested in discourse.”

Bernhard Forchtner, University of Leicester, in Journal of Language and Politics, Vol. 15:6 (2016)

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