APPROACHES TO DISCOURSE, POETICS AND PSYCHIATRY -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Language power -- INTRODUCTION -- GROUNDS FOR THE TRUISM: AN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE -- THE MODERN SETTING FOR THE TRUISM -- LANGUAGE STUDIES IN THE EIGHTIES: A CROSSROAD OF DISCIPLINES -- REFERENCES -- I. DISCOURSE AND POWER -- Introduction -- TOWARDS A CRITICAL STUDY OF LANGUAGE AND DISCOURSE -- DISCOURSE AND THE REPRODUCTION OF RACISM -- THE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THIS SECTION -- Resource powerand autonomy through discourse in con-flict -- ON CONCEPTUALIZING POWER -- WHICH APPROACH CAN MIGRANTS USE TO GET ACCESS TO POWER? -- IDEOLOGICAL, ECONOMIC-REPRODUCTIVE AND REPRESSIVE FUNCTIONS OF MIGRANT EDUCATION -- THE BREDBY SCHOOL STRIKE -- CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- The white discursive order: the British New Right's discourse on cultural racism with particular reference to the Salisbury Review -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. TRANSFORMING FRAMES OF REFERENCE: THE NEW RIGHT'S DISCURSIVE ASSAULT -- Discourses constructing an authoritarian national identity -- 3. CULTURE-NATION-'RACE': THE STRATEGIC VERBAL SLIPPAGE -- The denial of institutional racism -- 4. RAY HONEYFORD'S CULTURAL RACISM -- 5. CONCLUSION: THE NEW RIGHT'S DISCOURSE, ITS MODES OF CIRCULATION AND 'COM-MON-SENSE' ARGUMENT -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- The intervention of the media in the reproduction of power -- POSTSCRIPT: -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Elitediscourse and racism -- 1. INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUNDS -- 2. THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK -- 3. ELITE RACISM -- 4. ELITE DISCOURSE -- 5. THE NEWS -- A comparison: Media reactions to "South Africa" -- Other media discourse -- 6. EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE -- Cause or consequence? -- 7. MEDIA SOURCE TALK -- Ethnic crime reporting as intentional policy -- 8. A FINAL ILLUSTRATION: THE "TAMIL-INVASION" IN THE PRESS.

Numbers -- Illegality -- The 'wave' metaphors -- Political or 'economic' refugees? -- Talk about Tamils -- 9. CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- II. APPROACHES TO THE POETICS OF THE LYRIC -- Introduction -- The manuscript and its interpreters: notes on the 'omniscient reader' of the poetics of the lyric -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Semantics and phonetics in Montale -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Modernist poetry? On the interference of genre and group code: the case of T.S. Eliot -- Eliot's EARLY POETRY -- THE RESTRICTIONS OF THE GENRE -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- III. LANGUAGEAND MADNESS: MADNESS IN LANGUAGE -- Introduction -- The discourse of psychosis and the process of listening -- 1. MAD OR NOT -- 2. SEMIOTICS AND THE SHARED UNDERSTANDING -- 3. PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE SHARED UNDERSTANDING -- 4. PSYCHOANALYSIS WITHOUT SHARED UNDERSTANDING -- 5. UNDERSTANDING AND PSYCHOSIS -- THE INTERVIEW -- 6. PSYCHOANALYSIS AND READING -- REFERENCES -- The symbolic father -- 1. THREE IDENTIFICATIONS -- 2. THE ORIGIN OF THE LAW -- 3. THREE FORMS OF FATHERHOOD -- 4. ABOUT THE ROLE OF THE FATHER IN PSYCHOSIS AND PERVERSION -- 5. KAFKA AND THE LAW -- REFERENCES -- Literacure:Madness & literature -- psychiatry & criticism -- 1. IT IS NOT TRUE -- 2. IT IS NOT CRAZY -- 3. IT IS NOT EASY -- 4. LINGUISTIC PRESCRIPTION -- 5. A CASE -- 6. AND YET DIFFERENT -- 7. FOR MADNESS WOULD NOT ERR... -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Index of names.