
DISCOURSE
Howarth David(Author)
Open University Press
Published on 16. December 2000
Book
Hardback
176 pages
978-0-335-20071-9 (ISBN)
Description
The concept of discourse provokes considerable debate and is understood in a variety of ways in the contemporary social sciences. This text presents a comprehensive overview of the different conceptions and methods of discourse analysis, while setting out the traditions of thinking in which these conceptions have emerged. It surveys structuralist, post-structuralist and post-Marxist theory, and the author sets out a fresh approach to discourse analysis, drawing principally on the writings of Saussure, Levi-Strauss, Gramsci, Althusser, Foucault, Derrida, Laclau and Mouffe. He evaluates a number of pertinent criticisms of this approach, and explores ways in which discourse analysis can assist our understanding of identity formation, hegemony, and the relationship between structure and agency.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Milton Keynes
United Kingdom
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bibliography, index
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ISBN-13
978-0-335-20071-9 (9780335200719)
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Content
Introduction: defining the concept of discourse; Saussure, structuralism and symbolic systems; post-structuralism, deconstruction and textuality; Foucault's archaeology of discursive practices; genealogy, power/ knowledge and problematization; the limits of ideology in Marxist theory; Laclau and Mouffe's theory of discourse; deploying discourse theory.