Discourse Theory and Practice

PART ONE: FOUNDATIONS AND BUILDING BLOCKS/Themes in Discourse Research/The Case of Diana/From Saussure to Critical Sociolinguistics/The Turn towards a Social View of Language/Wittgenstein and Austin/Goffman Garfinkel and Conversation Analysis/The Ethnography of Speaking/Sapir-Whorf Hymes and Moerman/Language Struggle and Voice/The Bakhtin/Voloshinov Writings/Foucault/Power Knowledge and Discourse/PART TWO: SOCIAL INTERACTION/Editors' Introduction/Footing/Lecture One/Rules of Conversational Sequence/The Construction of `Delicate' Objects in Counselling/Interethnic Communication/The Relativity of Linguistic Strategies/Rethinking Power and Solidarity in Gender and Dominance/Just Say No? The Use of Conversation Analysis in Developing a Feminist Perspective of Sexual Refusal/PART THREE: MIND SELVES AND SENSE-MAKING/Editors' Introduction/Unfolding Discourse Analysis/Discursive Rhetorical and Ideological Messages/The Multivoicedness of Meaning/Emotion/Self-Narration in Social Life/Positioning/The Discursive Production of Selves/Gender Difference and the Production of Subjectivity/PART FOUR: CULTURE AND SOCIAL RELATIONS/Editors' Introduction/Social Semiotics/Principals of Critical Discourse Analysis/Textualizing Global Politics/The Spectacle of the Other/The Construction of an LD Student/A Case Study in the Politics of Representation/The Tavistock Programme/The Government of Subjectivity and Social Life/Debates in Discourse Research