Discourse

Open University Press

2000

x, 166 pages

Concepts in the social sciences

9780335200719

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

This volume presents an overview of the different ways in which discourse analysis has emerged and evolved in relation to the social sciences. It focuses on a structuralist, post-structuralist and post-Marxist theory

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