Discourse Theory and Practice: A Reader

by Margaret Wetherell (Editor), Stephanie J. A. Taylor (Editor), Simeon J Yates (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761971566
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	05/25/2001
Series:	Published in association with The Open University
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	6.69(w) x 9.53(h) x (d)

About the Author

Margaret Wetherell is Professor of Social Psychology at the Open University, UK and Director of the Economic and Social Research Council Programme on Identities and Social Action.

Stephanie Taylor is a senior lecturer in Social Psychology at the Open University, UK. Her research investigates a complex gendered subject and contemporary identification, including identities of creativity and work. She has also written extensively on discourse analysis and qualitative research. Her books include What Is Discourse Analysis? (Bloomsbury, 2013), Contemporary Identities of Creativity and Creative Work, with Karen Littleton (Ashgate, 2012), and Narratives of Identity and Place (Routledge, 2010). She is a coeditor, with Susan Luckman, of the 2018 Palgrave Macmillan collection The New Normal of Working Lives: Critical Studies in Contemporary Work and Employment. She is originally from New Zealand and now lives in the UK.

Table of Contents

PART ONE: FOUNDATIONS AND BUILDING BLOCKS
Themes in Discourse Research - Margaret Wetherell
The Case of Diana
From Saussure to Critical Sociolinguistics - Gunther Kress
The Turn towards a Social View of Language
Wittgenstein and Austin - Jonathan Potter
Goffman, Garfinkel and Conversation Analysis - John Heritage
The Ethnography of Speaking - Kristine Fitch
Sapir-Whorf, Hymes and Moerman
Language, Struggle and Voice - Janet Maybin
The Bakhtin/Voloshinov Writings
Foucault - Stuart Hall
Power, Knowledge and Discourse
PART TWO: SOCIAL INTERACTION
Editors' Introduction - Simeon J Yates
Footing - Erving Goffman
Lecture One - Harvey Sacks
Rules of Conversational Sequence
The Construction of ‘Delicate' Objects in Counselling - David Silverman
Interethnic Communication - John Gumperz
The Relativity of Linguistic Strategies - Deborah Tannen
Rethinking Power and Solidarity in Gender and Dominance
Just Say No? The Use of Conversation Analysis in Developing a Feminist Perspective of Sexual Refusal - Celia Kitzinger and Hannah Frith
PART THREE: MIND, SELVES AND SENSE-MAKING
Editors' Introduction - Margaret Wetherell
Unfolding Discourse Analysis - Jonathan Potter and Margaret Wetherell
Discursive, Rhetorical and Ideological Messages - Michael Billig
The Multivoicedness of Meaning - James Wertsch
Emotion - Derek Edwards
Self-Narration in Social Life - Kenneth Gergen
Positioning - Bronwyn Davies and Rom Har{ac}re
The Discursive Production of Selves
Gender Difference and the Production of Subjectivity - Wendy Hollway
PART FOUR: CULTURE AND SOCIAL RELATIONS
Editors' Introduction - Margaret Wetherell
Social Semiotics - Robert Hodge and Gunther Kress
Principals of Critical Discourse Analysis - Teun van Dijk
Textualizing Global Politics - Michael Shapiro
The Spectacle of the Other - Stuart Hall
The Construction of an LD Student - Hugh Mehan
A Case Study in the Politics of Representation
The Tavistock Programme - Peter Miller and Nikolas Rose
The Government of Subjectivity and Social Life
Debates in Discourse Research - Margaret Wetherell

Editorial Reviews

‘A highly effective introduction to the range of approaches found in discourse analysis… a lively and intellectually stimulating Reader' - David Silverman, Goldsmith College, University of London

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