Discourse Theory and Practice

Margaret Wetherell is Professor of Social Psychology at the Open University, UK and Director of the Economic and Social Research Council Programme on Identities and Social Action. Stephanie Taylor is a senior lecturer in Social Psychology at the Open University, UK. Her research investigates a complex gendered subject and contemporary identification, including identities of creativity and work. She has also written extensively on discourse analysis and qualitative research. Her books include What Is Discourse Analysis? (Bloomsbury, 2013), Contemporary Identities of Creativity and Creative Work, with Karen Littleton (Ashgate, 2012), and Narratives of Identity and Place (Routledge, 2010). She is a coeditor, with Susan Luckman, of the 2018 Palgrave Macmillan collection The New Normal of Working Lives: Critical Studies in Contemporary Work and Employment. She is originally from New Zealand and now lives in the UK.

• PART ONE: FOUNDATIONS AND BUILDING BLOCKSThemes in Discourse Research - Margaret WetherellThe Case of DianaFrom Saussure to Critical Sociolinguistics - Gunther KressThe Turn towards a Social View of LanguageWittgenstein and Austin - Jonathan PotterGoffman, Garfinkel and Conversation Analysis - John HeritageThe Ethnography of Speaking - Kristine FitchSapir-Whorf, Hymes and MoermanLanguage, Struggle and Voice - Janet MaybinThe Bakhtin/Voloshinov WritingsFoucault - Stuart HallPower, Knowledge and DiscoursePART TWO: SOCIAL INTERACTIONEditors′ Introduction - Simeon J YatesFooting - Erving GoffmanLecture One - Harvey SacksRules of Conversational SequenceThe Construction of `Delicate′ Objects in Counselling - David SilvermanInterethnic Communication - John GumperzThe Relativity of Linguistic Strategies - Deborah TannenRethinking Power and Solidarity in Gender and DominanceJust Say No? The Use of Conversation Analysis in Developing a Feminist Perspective of Sexual Refusal - Celia Kitzinger and Hannah FrithPART THREE: MIND, SELVES AND SENSE-MAKINGEditors′ Introduction - Margaret WetherellUnfolding Discourse Analysis - Jonathan Potter and Margaret WetherellDiscursive, Rhetorical and Ideological Messages - Michael BilligThe Multivoicedness of Meaning - James WertschEmotion - Derek EdwardsSelf-Narration in Social Life - Kenneth GergenPositioning - Bronwyn Davies and Rom Har{ac}reThe Discursive Production of SelvesGender Difference and the Production of Subjectivity - Wendy HollwayPART FOUR: CULTURE AND SOCIAL RELATIONSEditors′ Introduction - Margaret WetherellSocial Semiotics - Robert Hodge and Gunther KressPrincipals of Critical Discourse Analysis - Teun van DijkTextualizing Global Politics - Michael ShapiroThe Spectacle of the Other - Stuart HallThe Construction of an LD Student - Hugh MehanA Case Study in the Politics of RepresentationThe Tavistock Programme - Peter Miller and Nikolas RoseThe Government of Subjectivity and Social LifeDebates in Discourse Research - Margaret Wetherell

`A highly effective introduction to the range of approaches found in discourse analysis… a lively and intellectually stimulating Reader′ - David Silverman, Goldsmith College, University of London