Published in association with The Open University.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction

PART ONE: FOUNDATIONS AND BUILDING BLOCKS Editor's Introduction / Margaret Wetherell 1. Themes in Discourse Research: The Case of Diana / Margaret Wetherell 2. From Saussure to Critical Sociolinguistics: The Turn Towards a Social View of Language / Gunther Kress 3. Wittgenstein and Austin / Jonathan Potter 4. Goffman, Garfinkel and Conversation Analysis / John Heritage 5. The Ethnography of Speaking: Sapir/Whorf, Hymes and Moerman / Kristine Fitch 6. Language, Struggle and Voice: The Bakhtin/Volosinov Writings / Janet Maybin 7. Foucault: Power, Knowledge and Discourse / Stuart Hall

PART TWO: SOCIAL INTERACTION Editor's Introduction / Simeon J. Yates 8. Footing / Erving Goffman 9. Lecture 1: Rules of Conversational Sequence / Harvey Sacks 10. The Construction of "Delicate' Objects in Counselling / David Silverman 11. Interethnic Communication / John Gumperz 12. The Relativity of Linguistic Strategies: Rethinking Power and Solidarity in Gender and Dominance / Deborah Tannen 13. Just Say No? The Use of Conversation Analysis in Developing a Feminist Perspective on Sexual Refusal / Celia Kitzinger and Hanna Frith

PART THREE: MINDS, SELVES AND SENSE MAKING Editor's Introduction / Margaret Wetherell 14. Unfolding Discourse Analysis / Jonathan Potter and Margaret Wetherell 15. Discursive, Rhetorical and Ideological Messages / Michael Billig 16. The Multivoicedness of Meaning / James Wertsch 17. Emotion / Derek Edwards 18. Self-Narration in Social Life / Kenneth Gergen 19. Positioning: The Discursive Production of Selves / Bronwyn Davies and Rom Harré 20. Gender Difference and the Production of Subjectivity / Wendy Hollway

PART FOUR: CULTURE AND SOCIAL RELATIONS Editor's Introduction / Margaret Wetherell 21. Social Semiotics / Robert Hodge and Gunther Kress 22. Principles of Critical Discourse Analysis / Teun Van Dijk 23. Textualizing Global Politics / Michael Shapiro 24. The Spectacle of the Other / Stuart Hall 25. The Construction of an LD Student: A Case Study in the Politics of Representation / Hugh Mehan 26. The Tavistock Programme: The Government of Subjectivity and Social Life / Peter Miller and Nikolas Rose

CONCLUSION 27. Debates in Discourse Research / Margaret Wetherell

"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. The Reader is organized into four coherent parts, namely: Foundations and Building Blocks; Social Interaction; Minds, Selves and Sense-Making; and Culture and Social Relations. Key readings include works by Stuart Hall, Jonathan Potter, David Silverman, Erving Goffman, Teun van Dijk, Derek Edwards and Michael Billig. Chapters introduce the student to each individual and their reading, contextualizing each in terms of their contribution to the field, theoretical standpoint and individual method of doing discourse analysis. The many didactic elements of the book make it ideal as an introduction to the study of discourse for all students of psychology, sociology, linguistics or cultural studies." (Publisher's Website)