Discourse Theory and Practice : A Reader

by Margaret Wetherell

• ISBN13: 9780761971566
• ISBN10: 0761971564
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-05-25
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd

Summary

Discourse Theory and Practice is much more than a collection of key classic articles and papers in the field of discourse analysis. The aim of the book is to introduce students to the major figures in the field, and to some of their writings which, combined with the interspersed editorial commentaries, should allow students to understand the key epistemological and methodological issues of discourse theory and practice.The Reader is organized into four coherent Parts, namely: Foundations and Building Blocks; Social Interaction; Minds, Selves and Sense-Making; and Culture and Social Relations. Key readings include works by Stuart Hall, Jonathan Potter, David Silverman, Erving Goffman, Teun van Dijk, Derek Edwards and Michael Billig. Chapters introduce the student to each individual and their reading, contextualizing each in terms of their contribution to the field, theoretical standpoint and individual method of doing discourse analysis. The many didactic elements of the book make it ideal as an introduction to the study of discourse for all students of psychology, sociology, linguistics or cultural studies.

Author Biography

Margaret Wetherell is Professor of Social Psychology and Stephanie Taylor is Lecturer in Social Sciences at The Open University Simeon J. Yates teaches Communication Studies at Sheffield Hallam University

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	viii
Introduction	1	(8)
PART ONE: FOUNDATIONS AND BUILDING BLOCKS	9	(73)
Margaret Wetherell
Themes in Discourse Research: The Case of Diana	14	(15)
Margaret Wetherell
From Saussure to Critical Sociolinguistics: The Turn Towards a Social View of Language	29	(10)
Gunther Kress
Wittgenstein and Austin	39	(8)
Jonathan Potter
Goffman, Garfinkel and Conversation Analysis	47	(10)
John Heritage
The Ethnography of Speaking: Sapir/Whorf, Hymes and Moerman	57	(7)
Kristine Fitch
Language, Struggle and Voice: The Bakhtin/Volosinov Writings	64	(8)
Janet Maybin
Foucault: Power, Knowledge and Discourse	72	(10)
Stuart Hall
PART TWO: SOCIAL INTERACTION	82	(104)
Simeon J. Yates
Footing	93	(18)
Erving Goffman
Lecture 1: Rules of Conversational Sequence	111	(8)
Harvey Sacks
The Construction of `Delicate' Objects in Counselling	119	(19)
David Silverman
Interethnic Communication	138	(12)
John Gumperz
The Relativity of Linguistic Strategies: Rethinking Power and Solidarity in Gender and Dominance	150	(17)
Deborah Tannen
Just Say No? The Use of Conversation Analysis in Developing a Feminist Perspective on Sexual Refusal	167	(19)
Celia Kitzinger
Hannab Frith
PART THREE: MINDS, SELVES AND SENSE MAKING	186	(98)
Margaret Wetherell
Unfolding Discourse Analysis	198	(12)
Jonathan Potter
Margaret Wetherell
Discursive, Rhetorical and Ideological Messages	210	(12)
Michael Billing
The Multivoicedness of Meaning	222	(14)
James Wertsch
Emotion	236	(11)
Derek Edwards
Self-Narration in Social Life	247	(14)
Kenneth Gergen
Positioning: The Discursive Production of Selves	261	(11)
Bronwyn Davies
Rom Harre
Gender Difference and the Production of Subjectivity	272	(12)
Wendy Hollway
PART FOUR: CULTURE AND SOCIAL RELATIONS	284	(116)
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Social Semiotics	294	(6)
Robert Hodge
Gunther Kress
Principles of Critical Discourse Analysis	300	(18)
Teun Van Dijk
Textualizing Global Politics	318	(6)
Michael Shapiro
The Spectacle of the Other	324	(21)
Stuart Hall
The Construction of an LD Student: A Case Study in the Politics of Representation	345	(19)
Hugh Mehan
The Tavistock Programme: The Government of Subjectivity and Social Life	364	(16)
Peter Miller
Nikolas Rose
CONCLUSION
Debates in Discourse Research	380	(20)
Margaret Wetherell
Index	400