French Discourse Analysis: The Method of Post-Structuralism

ISBN-13: 9780415189408 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 348 str.

Glyn Williams

Opis

French Discourse Analysis has been developing in France since the 1960s, pioneered by Bachelard and Canguilhem. In this text, Glyn Williams presents an account of the emergence and development of French Discourse Analysis and the contribution which both sociology and linguistics make to the social construction of meaning. Williams seeks to develop a language based method that corresponds to the theoretical force of poststructuralism. He guides the reader through the general history of structuralism and post-structuralism before covering the different stages in the development of French Discourse Analysis between 1965 and the present. Contributors to the theoretical field such as Foucault and Althusser are referred to throughout, as he outlines the linguistics issues raised by this body of work and the implementation of the method. The book is an advanced-level introduction to the principles and theories of French Discourse Analysis.

O autorze

Glyn Williams is Director of the Research Centre Wales and Reader in Sociology at the University of Wales, Bangor. His previous publications include Sociolinguistics: A Sociological Critique (1992)