Discourse theory and practice: a reader

"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."--Jacket.

Published in association with The Open University.

pt. One. Foundations and building blocks. Themes in discourse research : the case of Diana / Margaret Wetherell -- From Saussure to critical sociolinguistics : the turn towards a social view of language / Gunther Kress -- Wittgenstein and Austin / Jonathan Potter -- Goffman, Garfinkel and conversation analysis / John Heritage -- The ethnography of speaking : Sapir/Whorf, Hyymes and Moerman / Kristine Fitch -- Language, struggle and voice : the Bakhtin/Volosinov writings / Janet Maybin -- Foucault : power, knowledge and discourse / Stuart Hall -- pt. Two : Social interaction. Footing / Erving Goffman -- Lecture 1 : rules of conversational sequence / Harvey Sacks -- The construction of 'delicate' objects in counselling / David Silverman -- Interethnic communication / John Gumperz -- The relativity of linguistic strategies : rethinking power and solidarity in gender and dominance / Deborah Tannen.

Just say no? The use of conversation analysis in developing a feminist perspective on sexual refusal / Celia Kitzinger and Hannah Frith -- pt. Three : Minds, selves and sense making. Unfolding discourse analysis / Jonathan Potter and Margaret Wetherell -- Discursive, rhetorical and ideolog…