Discourse

Offering an accessible analysis of the term 'discourse', this second edition is updated to include new advances in critical discourse analysis, coverage of theorists such as Zizek and Bourdieu and a revised section on social psychology.

Main Author: Mills, Sara, 1954-
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.
Physical Description: vi, 168 pages ; 20 cm.
Edition: Second edition.
Series: New critical idiom.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cultural theory/critical theory/literary theory
  • Linguistics
  • Social psychology/critical linguistics
  • Cultural theory and models of discourse
  • Michel Foucault and discourse
  • Literature as a discourse
  • Ideology and truth
  • The subject
  • Economic determinants of discourse
  • Language, discourse and ideology
  • The episteme
  • The statement
  • The discourse/discourses
  • The archive
  • Exclusions within discourse
  • Circulation of discourses
  • Conclusions
  • Confessional discourse
  • Discourses of femininity and heterosexuality
  • Access to discourse
  • Discourses in conflict
  • Conclusions
  • Othering
  • Challenging othering
  • Psychoanalysis and discourse theory
  • Conclusions
  • Discourse analysis
  • Social psychologists and discourse
  • Critical discourse analysis
  • Conclusions.