The Discourse Studies Reader -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Preface -- The Discourse Studies Reader: An introduction -- Discourse Studies as a field -- 'Discourse' in linguistics -- 'Discourse' and the social sciences -- Discourse studies = discourse theory + discourse analysis -- The development of Discourse Studies -- About this Reader -- References -- Section I. Theoretical inspirations: Structuralism versus pragmatics -- Introduction -- Ferdinand de Saussure: The value of the sign -- Mikhail Bakhtin: Polyphonic discourse in the novel -- Zellig S. Harris: Towards a distributionalist method -- George Herbert Mead: Thought, communication and the significant symbol -- Ludwig Wittgenstein: Communication as a language game -- John L. Austin: Performing speech -- H. Paul Grice: Using language to mean something -- Section II. From structuralism to poststructuralism -- Introduction -- Jacques Lacan: The divided subject -- Louis Althusser: The subjectivity effect of discourse -- Michel Pêcheux: From ideology to discourse -- Michel Foucault: An archaeology of discourse -- Stuart Hall: Encoding and decoding the message -- Ernesto Laclau: The impossibility of society -- Judith Butler: Speaking to the postcolonial Other -- Section III. Enunciative pragmatics -- Introduction -- Émile Benveniste: The formal apparatus of enunciation -- _GoBack -- Dominique Maingueneau: The scene of enunciation -- Jacqueline Authier-Revuz: Enunciative heterogeneity -- Oswald Ducrot: Enunciative polyphony -- Johannes Angermuller: Subject positions in polyphonic discourse -- Section IV. Interactionism -- Harvey Sacks: Turn-taking in conversations -- Erving Goffman: Tacit knowledge in interaction -- John Gumperz: Intercultural encounters -- Aaron V. Cicourel: Maintaining one's self -- James Paul Gee: Language as saying, doing and being.

Jonathan Potter: Discourse and social psychology -- Section V. Sociopragmatics -- Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday: Language as social semiotic -- Theo van Leeuwen: The representation of actors -- Konrad Ehlich: Text and discourse -- Patrick Charaudeau: Discourse strategies and the constraints of communication -- Ruth Amossy: Argumentation and discourse analysis -- John Swales: Genre and discourse community -- Section VI. Historical knowledge -- Introduction -- Régine Robin: History and linguistics -- Reinhart Koselleck: Conceptual history -- Dietrich Busse and Wolfgang Teubert: Using corpora for historical semantics -- Thomas Luckmann: Communicative genres -- Section VII. Critical approaches -- Introduction -- Jürgen Habermas: A normative conception of discourse -- Jan Blommaert and Jef Verschueren: A pragmatics of the cultural other -- Norman Fairclough: A critical agenda for education -- Teun A. van Dijk: Discourse, cognition, society -- Ruth Wodak: exclusion: Xenophobia, racism and anti-Semitism -- Index.