Poststructuralist Discourse Analysis, 2014
Subjectivity in Enunciative Pragmatics
Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse Series

This book presents developments of discourse analysis in France and applies its tools to key texts from five theorists of structuralism: Lacan, Althusser, Foucault, Derrida and Sollers. It pays special attention to enunciative pragmatics as a poststructuralist approach which analyzes the discursive construction of subjectivity.

Preface 1. Introduction: Poststructuralism and Enunciative Pragmatics 2. A History of Discourse Analysis in France 2.1. From Discursive Formation to Enunciative Heterogeneity 2.2. Discourse as Utterance and Enunciation: The Field of Enunciative Pragmatics 2.3. Elements of Enunciative Discourse Analysis: Indexicality, Polyphony, Preconstruct 3. A Methodology of Discourse Analysis 3.1. From Understanding to Analyzing Discourse 3.2. A Discourse Analytical Research Design 3.3. Polyphony and Scenography: The Activity of the Reader 4. Analyzing Intellectual Discourse: Variations on the Critique of Humanism 4.1. Five Protagonists of Theoretical Discourse 4.2. Jacques Lacan: The Return to (the Subject of) Freud 4.3. Louis Althusser: Marxism as Anti-humanism 4.4. Michel Foucault: The End of the Age of 'Man' 4.5. Jacques Derrida: The Metaphysics of the Text 4.6. Tel Quel: Narrating the Revolution 5. Conclusion: The Subject of Discourse References ?

Johannes Angermuller is Professor of Discourse at the University of Warwick, UK and Director of the ERC DISCONEX research group on academic discourse at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, France. As a founder and coordinator of DiscourseNet (since 2007), he has contributed to establishing discourse analysis as an interdisciplinary and international field at the crossroads of language and society.