1st Edition

French Discourse Analysis The Method of Post-Structuralism

By Glyn Williams Copyright 1999
352 Pages
by Routledge

348 Pages
by Routledge

For the first time in English, Glyn Williams draws together current debates in linguistics and social theory, and provides the first study in English of the principles and theories of French discourse analysis.

Introduction 1 Modernism and the philosophy of language 2 Structuralism 3 Post-structuralism 4 Materialism and Discourse 5 The struggle with idealism 6 Form and discourse 7 Lexicology and distributionalism 8 Methodological issues 9 Post-structuralism, normativity and the ontology of being.

Biography

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)