Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Language, Culture, Discourse -- About this book -- Culture and language -- Signs, texts and codes: structuralism in cultural studies -- Reading signs -- Talking to people -- Poststructuralism and the crisis of representation -- Derrida and cultural studies -- The regulation of language -- Wittgenstein and the uses of language -- Rorty and the revival of pragmatism -- Ethnographic and qualitative empirical work -- Critical discourse analysis (CDA) -- Conclusions -- 2 Language, Identity and Cultural Politics -- Language and the cultured self -- The metaphorical interior -- Self-identity as a reflexive project -- The fracturing of identity -- Language, identities and social practice -- Accounting for agency -- Cultural discourse and biochemical bodies -- Evolution and the limits of language -- The cultural politics of language and identity -- Summary and conclusions -- 3 Tools for Discourse Analysis -- Textually oriented discourse analysis -- Critical discourse analysis -- The linguistic tools of discourse analysis -- The ideational function -- The interpersonal function -- Qualifications and conclusions -- 4 The Name of the Father: Performing Masculine Identities -- The performativity of identity -- Man trouble -- Talking of my father -- Case Study: Daniel -- Case Study: Maurice -- Conclusions: Our Fathers . . . -- 5 The Language of Ethnicity: The Unbearable Lightness of Being Polish? -- The concept of ethnicity -- National identities -- Polish identity: an achievement of everyday language -- Language and religion -- Language and religion revisited -- Ethnicity and working practices -- Ethnicities to choose from . . . -- The unbearable dilemma of ethnicity -- Agents and patients: the unbearable lightness of seeing -- The analysis of agency -- Agents and patients.

Conclusions -- Appendix -- 6 Intersections -- The articulation of identities -- Gendering ethnic identity -- Gendering ethnic identity in context -- In conclusion: reflections on writing this book -- Appendix -- References -- Index.