Table of contents
Prefaceix
The Discourse Studies Reader. An Introduction
1. Theoretical Inspirations: Structuralism versus Pragmatics
Introduction
Ferdinand de Saussure: The value of the sign21
1959[1906-1911]. Course in General Linguistics, translated by Wade Baskin, selected 114–117, 120–122. New York: Philosophical Library
Mikhail Bakhtin: Polyphonic discourse in the novel27
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
Zellig S. Harris: Towards a distributionalist method36
1952. Language, 28 (1): 1–30, selected 1–3, 29–30
George Herbert Mead: Thought, communication, and the significant symbol41
1934. Mind, Self, and Society from the Standpoint of a Social Behaviorist, edited by Charles W. Morris. Chicago: University of Chicago, selected 68-75
Ludwig Wittgenstein: Communication as a language game48
1997[1953]: Philosophische Untersuchungen / Philosophical Investigations, selected remarks (Bemerkungen) 1-6, 10, 11, 23-26, 29, 30, 43. Oxford: Blackwell
John L. Austin: Performing speech54
1979[1961]. ‘The Meaning of a Word.’ In Philosophical Papers, 3rd edition, 55-75, selected 56–62, 72–75. Oxford: Oxford University Press
H. Paul Grice: Using language to mean something60
1957. ‘Meaning.’ Philosophical Review 66: 377–388, presently published by Duke University Press
2. From Structuralism to Poststructuralism
Introduction
Jacques Lacan: The divided subject77
1970–1971. Seminar XVIII. On a discourse that might not be a semblance. selected 1–8. Online source, translated by Cormac Gallagher
Louis Althusser: The subjectivity effect of discourse83
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.
Michel Pêcheux: From ideology to discourse89
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 Foucault: An archaeology of discourse98
2001[1968]. ‘Réponse à une question.’ In Dits et écrits, I, 701–723, selected 702–715. Paris: Gallimard. Anonymous translator.
Stuart Hall: Encoding and decoding the message111
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
Ernesto Laclau: The impossibility of society122
1990. ‘The Impossibility of Society.’ In New Reflections on the Revolution of Our Time, 89–92. London, New York: Verso
Judith Butler: Speaking to the postcolonial Other127
2008. ‘Violence, Nonviolence. Sartre on Fanon.’ In Race after Sartre, ed. by Jonathan Judaken, 211–232, selected 211–215. Albany: SUNY Press
3. Enunciative Pragmatics
Introduction
Émile Benveniste: The formal apparatus of enunciation140
1970. ‘L’appareil formel de l’énonciation.’ Langages 17 (5): 12–18, selected 12–18. Anonymous translator.
Dominique Maingueneau: The scene of enunciation146
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
Jacqueline Authier-Revuz: Enunciative heterogeneity155
1984. ‘Hétérogénéité(s) énonciative(s).’ Langages 73: 98-111, selected 99–107. Anonymous translator
Oswald Ducrot: Enunciative polyphony166
1984. Le Dire et le dit. Paris, Minuit, selected 171, 189–192, 203–210. Anonymous translator
Johannes Angermuller: Subject positions in polyphonic discourse176
2014. Poststructuralist Discourse Analysis. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave.
4. Interactionism
Introduction
Harvey Sacks: Turn-taking in conversations194
1992[1964]. ‘Lecture 1. Rules of Conversational Sequence.’ In Lectures on Conversation. Vol. I, 3–11. Oxford, Cambridge, MA: Blackwell
Erving Goffman: Tacit knowledge in interaction204
1983. ‘Felicity’s Condition.’ American Journal of Sociology 89 (1): 1–53, selected 1–9, 48–51.
John Gumperz: Intercultural encounters217
1982. Discourse Strategies. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, selected 1-7.
Aaron V. Cicourel: Maintaining one’s self224
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
James Paul Gee: Language as saying, doing and being234
2010. An Introduction to Discourse Analysis. Theory and Method. 3rd edition. New York, London: Routledge, selected 2–10.
Jonathan Potter: Discourse and social psychology244
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.
5. Sociopragmatics
Introduction
Michael A.K. Halliday: Language as social semiotic263
1993[1975]. ‘Language as Social Semiotic.’ In Language and Literacy, ed. by Janet Maybin, 23-43, selected 23–29. Clevedon: Open University
Theo van Leeuwen: The representation of actors272
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
Konrad Ehlich: Text and discourse282
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.
Patrick Charaudeau: Discourse strategies and the constraints of communication286
2002. ‘A communicative conception of discourse.’ Discourse studies 4 (3): 301–318, selected 301-302, 309–316
Ruth Amossy: Argumentation and discourse analysis297
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.
John Swales: Genre and discourse community305
1990. Genre analysis: English in academic and research settings. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, selected 45–47, 52–60
6. Historical Knowledge
Introduction
Régine Robin: History and linguistics324
1973. Histoire et linguistique. Paris: Armand Colin, selected 21–26. Anonymous translator
Reinhart Koselleck: Conceptual history332
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
Dietrich Busse and Wolfgang Teubert: Using corpora for historical semantics340
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.
Thomas Luckmann: Communicative genres350
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
7. Critical approaches
Introduction
Jürgen Habermas: A normative conception of discourse365
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
Jan Blommaert and Jef Verschueren: A pragmatics of the cultural other369
1998. Debating Diversity. Analysing the Discourse of Tolerance. London: Routledge, selected 32-38
Norman Fairclough: A critical agenda for education378
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
Teun A. van Dijk: Discourse, cognition, society388
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.
Ruth Wodak: Discourses of exclusion: Xenophobia, eacism and anti-Semitism400
2007. ‘Pragmatics and Critical Discourse Analysis. A cross-disciplinary Analysis.’ Pragmatics and Cognition, 15 (1): 203–225, selected 203–207, 215–218
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