Cultural Studies and Discourse Analysis : A Dialogue on Language and Identity

by Chris Barker

• ISBN13: 9780761963844
• ISBN10: 0761963847
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-08-09
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd

Summary

This novel and important book brings together insights from cultural studies and critical discourse analysis to examine the fruitful links between the two. Cultural Studies and Discourse Analysis shows that critical discourse analysis is able to provide the analytic context, skills and tools by which we can study how language constructs, constitutes and shapes the social world and demonstrates in detail how the methodological approach of critical discourse analysis can enhance cultural studies. In a richly argued discussion, the authors show how marrying the methodology of critical discourse analysis with cultural studies enlarges our understanding of gender and ethnicity.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	ix
Language, Culture, Discourse	1	(27)
About this book	2	(1)
Culture and language	3	(1)
Signs, texts and codes: structuralism in cultural studies	4	(2)
Reading signs	6	(1)
Talking to people	7	(2)
Poststructuralism and the crisis of representation	9	(1)
Derrida and cultural studies	10	(2)
The regulation of language	12	(2)
Wittgenstein and the uses of language	14	(2)
Rorty and the revival of pragmatism	16	(2)
Ethnographic and qualitative empirical work	18	(4)
Critical discourse analysis (CDA)	22	(5)
Conclusions	27	(1)
Language, Identity and Cultural Politics	28	(34)
Language and the cultured self	29	(2)
The metaphorical interior	31	(6)
Self-identity as a reflexive project	37	(3)
The fracturing of identity	40	(2)
Language, identities and social practice	42	(3)
Accounting for agency	45	(2)
Cultural discourse and biochemical bodies	47	(5)
Evolution and the limits of language	52	(4)
The cultural politics of language and identity	56	(4)
Summary and conclusions	60	(2)
Tools for Discourse Analysis	62	(24)
Textually oriented discourse analysis	62	(2)
Critical discourse analysis	64	(5)
The linguistic tools of discourse analysis	69	(1)
The ideational function	70	(5)
The interpersonal function	75	(8)
Qualifications and conclusions	83	(3)
The Name of the Father: Performing Masculine Identities	86	(36)
The performativity of identity	87	(1)
Man trouble	88	(7)
Talking of my father	95	(1)
Case Study: Daniel	96	(13)
Case Study: Maurice	109	(8)
Conclusions: Our Fathers	117	(5)
The Language of Ethnicity: The Unbearable Lightness of Being Polish?	122	(34)
The concept of ethnicity	122	(1)
National identities	123	(3)
Polish identity: an achievement of everyday language	126	(6)
Language and religion	132	(1)
Language and religion revisited	133	(2)
Ethnicity and working practices	135	(3)
Ethnicities to choose from	138	(3)
The unbearable dilemma of ethnicity	141	(2)
Agents and patients: the unbearable lightness of seeing	143	(1)
The analysis of agency	144	(1)
Agents and patients	145	(3)
Conclusions	148	(2)
Appendix	150	(6)
Intersections	156	(22)
The articulation of identities	156	(3)
Gendering ethnic identity	159	(8)
Gendering ethnic identity in context	167	(6)
In conclusion: reflections on writing this book	173	(3)
Appendix	176	(2)
References	178	(9)
Index	187