About the Book
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.
Table of Contents:
1. Preface; 2. The Discourse Studies Reader. An Introduction (by Angermuller, Johannes); 3. 1. Theoretical Inspirations: Structuralism versus Pragmatics; 4. Introduction; 5. Ferdinand de Saussure: The value of the sign; 6. 1959[1906-1911]. Course in General Linguistics, translated by Wade Baskin, selected 114-117, 120-122. New York: Philosophical Library (by de Saussure, Ferdinand); 7. Mikhail Bakhtin: Polyphonic discourse in the novel; 8. 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 (by Bakhtin, Mikhail); 9. Zellig S. Harris: Towards a distributionalist method; 10. 1952. Language, 28 (1): 1-30, selected 1-3, 29-30 (by Harris, Zellig S.); 11. George Herbert Mead: Thought, communication, and the significant symbol; 12. 1934. Mind, Self, and Society from the Standpoint of a Social Behaviorist, edited by Charles W. Morris. Chicago: University of Chicago, selected 68-75 (by Mead, George Herbert); 13. Ludwig Wittgenstein: Communication as a language game; 14. 1997[1953]: Philosophische Untersuchungen / Philosophical Investigations, selected remarks (Bemerkungen) 1-6, 10, 11, 23-26, 29, 30, 43. Oxford: Blackwell (by Wittgenstein, Ludwig); 15. John L. Austin: Performing speech; 16. 1979[1961]. 'The Meaning of a Word.' In Philosophical Papers, 3rd edition, 55-75, selected 56-62, 72-75. Oxford: Oxford University Press (by Austin, John L.); 17. H. Paul Grice: Using language to mean something; 18. 1957. 'Meaning.' Philosophical Review 66: 377-388, presently published by Duke University Press (by Grice, H. Paul); 19. 2. From Structuralism to Poststructuralism; 20. Introduction; 21. Jacques Lacan: The divided subject; 22. 1970-1971. Seminar XVIII. On a discourse that might not be a semblance. selected 1-8. Online source, translated by Cormac Gallagher (by Lacan, Jacques); 23. Louis Althusser: The subjectivity effect of discourse; 24. 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. (by Althusser, Louis); 25. Michel Pecheux: From ideology to discourse; 26. 1975. 'Mises au point et perspectives a propos de l'analyse automappptique du discours.' Langages 37: 7-80, selected 7-16, 20-22. Anonymous translator (by Pecheux, Michel); 27. Michel Foucault: An archaeology of discourse; 28. 2001[1968]. 'Reponse a une question.' In Dits et ecrits, I, 701-723, selected 702-715. Paris: Gallimard. Anonymous translator. (by Foucault, Michel); 29. Stuart Hall: Encoding and decoding the message; 30. 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 (by Hall, Stuart); 31. Ernesto Laclau: The impossibility of society; 32. 1990. 'The Impossibility of Society.' In New Reflections on the Revolution of Our Time, 89-92. London, New York: Verso (by Laclau, Ernesto); 33. Judith Butler: Speaking to the postcolonial Other; 34. 2008. 'Violence, Nonviolence. Sartre on Fanon.' In Race after Sartre, ed. by Jonathan Judaken, 211-232, selected 211-215. Albany: SUNY Press (by Butler, Judith); 35. 3. Enunciative Pragmatics; 36. Introduction; 37. Emile Benveniste: The formal apparatus of enunciation; 38. 1970. 'L'appareil formel de l'enonciation.' Langages 17 (5): 12-18, selected 12-18. Anonymous translator. (by Benveniste, Emile); 39. Dominique Maingueneau: The scene of enunciation; 40. 2003. 'La situation d'enonciation entre langue et discours.' In Dix ans de S.D.U., edited by the Association des chercheurs en linguistique francaise, 197-209, selected 198-206. Craiova: Editura Universitaria Craiova (by Maingueneau, Dominique); 41. Jacqueline Authier-Revuz: Enunciative heterogeneity; 42. 1984. 'Heterogeneite(s) enonciative(s).' Langages 73: 98-111, selected 99-107. Anonymous translator (by Authier-Revuz, Jacqueline); 43. Oswald Ducrot: Enunciative polyphony; 44. 1984. Le Dire et le dit. Paris, Minuit, selected 171, 189-192, 203-210. Anonymous translator (by Ducrot, Oswald); 45. Johannes Angermuller: Subject positions in polyphonic discourse; 46. 2014. Poststructuralist Discourse Analysis. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave. (by Angermuller, Johannes); 47. 4. Interactionism; 48. Introduction; 49. Harvey Sacks: Turn-taking in conversations; 50. 1992[1964]. 'Lecture 1. Rules of Conversational Sequence.' In Lectures on Conversation. Vol. I, 3-11. Oxford, Cambridge, MA: Blackwell (by Sacks, Harvey); 51. Erving Goffman: Tacit knowledge in interaction; 52. 1983. 'Felicity's Condition.' American Journal of Sociology 89 (1): 1-53, selected 1-9, 48-51. (by Goffman, Erving); 53. John Gumperz: Intercultural encounters; 54. 1982. Discourse Strategies. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, selected 1-7. (by Gumperz, John J.); 55. Aaron V. Cicourel: Maintaining one's self; 56. 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 (by Cicourel, Aaron V.); 57. James Paul Gee: Language as saying, doing and being; 58. 2010. An Introduction to Discourse Analysis. Theory and Method. 3rd edition. New York, London: Routledge, selected 2-10. (by Gee, James Paul); 59. Jonathan Potter: Discourse and social psychology; 60. 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. (by Potter, Jonathan); 61. 5. Sociopragmatics; 62. Introduction; 63. Michael A.K. Halliday: Language as social semiotic; 64. 1993[1975]. 'Language as Social Semiotic.' In Language and Literacy, ed. by Janet Maybin, 23-43, selected 23-29. Clevedon: Open University (by Halliday, M.A.K.); 65. Theo van Leeuwen: The representation of actors; 66. 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 (by Van Leeuwen, Theo Jacob); 67. Konrad Ehlich: Text and discourse; 68. 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. (by Ehlich, Konrad); 69. Patrick Charaudeau: Discourse strategies and the constraints of communication; 70. 2002. 'A communicative conception of discourse.' Discourse studies 4 (3): 301-318, selected 301-302, 309-316 (by Charaudeau, Patrick); 71. Ruth Amossy: Argumentation and discourse analysis; 72. 2008. 'Argumentation et Analyse du discours: perspectives theoriques et decoupages disciplinaires.' Argumentation et Analyse du discours [online], 1, selected paragraphs 1-18. Access 6.9.2008, http://aad.revues.org/200. Anonymous translator. (by Amossy, Ruth); 73. John Swales: Genre and discourse community; 74. 1990. Genre analysis: English in academic and research settings. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, selected 45-47, 52-60 (by Swales, John M.); 75. 6. Historical Knowledge; 76. Introduction; 77. Regine Robin: History and linguistics; 78. 1973. Histoire et linguistique. Paris: Armand Colin, selected 21-26. Anonymous translator (by Robin, Regine); 79. Reinhart Koselleck: Conceptual history; 80. 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 (by Koselleck, Reinhart); 81. Dietrich Busse and Wolfgang Teubert: Using corpora for historical semantics; 82. 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. (by Busse, Dietrich); 83. Thomas Luckmann: Communicative genres; 84. 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 (by Luckmann, Thomas); 85. 7. Critical approaches; 86. Introduction; 87. Jurgen Habermas: A normative conception of discourse; 88. 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 (by Habermas, Jurgen); 89. Jan Blommaert and Jef Verschueren: A pragmatics of the cultural other; 90. 1998. Debating Diversity. Analysing the Discourse of Tolerance. London: Routledge, selected 32-38 (by Blommaert, Jan); 91. Norman Fairclough: A critical agenda for education; 92. 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 (by Fairclough, Norman); 93. Teun A. van Dijk: Discourse, cognition, society; 94. 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. (by Dijk, Teun A. van); 95. Ruth Wodak: Discourses of exclusion: Xenophobia, eacism and anti-Semitism; 96. 2007. 'Pragmatics and Critical Discourse Analysis. A cross-disciplinary Analysis.' Pragmatics and Cognition, 15 (1): 203-225, selected 203-207, 215-218 (by Wodak, Ruth); 97. Index
