Preface ………………………………………………………………………………………………. i
CHAPTER 1: THEORY AS METADISCOURSE …………………………………………. 1
CHAPTER 2: EARLY SOCIAL SCIENCE …………………………………………………… 28
CHAPTER 3: MARXISM AND LANGUAGE …………………………………………….. 51
CHAPTER 4: FUNCTIONALISM AND LANGUAGE ………………………………….. 71
CHAPTER 5: INERACTIONISM AND LANGUAGE …………………………………… 84
CHAPTER 6: ANTI-FUNDATIONALISM ………………………………………………….109
CHAPTER 7: POST-STRUCTURALISM …………………………………………………….126
CHAPTER 8: CRITICAL SOCIAL THEORY …………………………………………………154
CHAPTER 9: CRITICAL REALISM AND DISCOURSE …………………………………179
CHAPTER 10: SOCIOLINGUISTICS AND SOCIAL THEORY ……………………… 206
BIBLIOGRAPHY: …………………………………………………………………………………..232
Biography
Glyn Williams has authored or co-authored fourteen books, including Sociolinguistics: A Sociological Critique (1992) and French Discourse Analysis: The Method of Poststructuralism (1999).
