Poststructuralist Discourse Analysis: Subjectivity in Enunciative Pragmatics

by J. Angermuller

Overview

This book presents developments of discourse analysis in France and applies its tools to key texts from five theorists of structuralism: Lacan, Althusser, Foucault, Derrida and Sollers. It pays special attention to enunciative pragmatics as a poststructuralist approach which analyzes the discursive construction of subjectivity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349495085
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/2014
Series:	Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse
Edition description:	1st ed. 2014
Pages:	163
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Johannes Angermuller is Professor of Discourse at the University of Warwick, UK and Director of the ERC DISCONEX research group on academic discourse at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, France. As a founder and coordinator of DiscourseNet (since 2007), he has contributed to establishing discourse analysis as an interdisciplinary and international field at the crossroads of language and society.

Table of Contents

Preface 1. Introduction: Poststructuralism and Enunciative Pragmatics 2. A History of Discourse Analysis in France 2.1. From Discursive Formation to Enunciative Heterogeneity 2.2. Discourse as Utterance and Enunciation: The Field of Enunciative Pragmatics 2.3. Elements of Enunciative Discourse Analysis: Indexicality, Polyphony, Preconstruct 3. A Methodology of Discourse Analysis 3.1. From Understanding to Analyzing Discourse 3.2. A Discourse Analytical Research Design 3.3. Polyphony and Scenography: The Activity of the Reader 4. Analyzing Intellectual Discourse: Variations on the Critique of Humanism 4.1. Five Protagonists of Theoretical Discourse 4.2. Jacques Lacan: The Return to (the Subject of) Freud 4.3. Louis Althusser: Marxism as Anti-humanism 4.4. Michel Foucault: The End of the Age of 'Man' 4.5. Jacques Derrida: The Metaphysics of the Text 4.6. Tel Quel: Narrating the Revolution 5. Conclusion: The Subject of Discourse References—

Editorial Reviews

Angermuller’s book develops enunciative pragmatics, a formal-qualitative approach that originates in the French tradition of discourse analysis. … Angermuller’s Poststructuralist Discourse Analysis is a unique addition to the Anglophone field of pragmatics and discourse analysis. … I expect Angermuller’s book to become an important input for the pragmatic study of language and discourse after structuralism.” (Jaspal Naveel Singh, Journal of Pragmatics, Vol. 88, 2015)

'A valuable addition to the discourse analysis literature in English, this book is a much-needed introduction to the enunciative pragmatics developed by French poststructuralists and an application of it in analysis of intellectual and academic discourse.' - Norman Fairclough, Lancaster University, UK

'Johannes Angermuller is one of the few authors I know who has evolved a robust model of 'theory into practice' for applying poststructuralist discourse analysis to written texts. He resolves the problem ofa text's interpretive authority by analysing the 'markers of enunciation' readers follow in order to grasp the competing voices within any text. This is ground-breaking work in the field of discourse analysis.' - Judith Baxter, Aston University, UK

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