Poststructuralist Discourse Analysis: Subjectivity in Enunciative Pragmatics

French thinkers, such as Lacan, Althusser, Foucault and Derrida, have been widely perceived as theorists of the linguistic turn. Yet, the linguistic and semiotic traditions which informed the theoretical imagination of these theorists so decisively have hardly been accounted for outside French linguistics. This book presents past and present developments in French discourse analysis, while also paying special attention to the development of enunciative pragmatics, which hinges on the discursive construction of subjectivity. Five textual fragments by these theorists, all written around 1966 when the controversy over structuralism was at its height, are analysed in detail in relation to the question of how theoretical texts are used in discourse where one constantly needs to define one's position vis-à-vis others. The book will be valuable to students, researchers and practitioners within discourse analysis, pragmatics, linguistics and semiotics, as well as all those interested in the analysis of the social production of meaning.

'A valuable addition to the discourse analysis literature in English, this book is a much-needed introduction to the enunciative pragmatics developed by French poststructuralists and an application of it in analysis of intellectual and academic discourse.' - Norman Fairclough, Lancaster University, UK

'Johannes Angermuller is one of the few authors I know who has evolved a robust model of 'theory into practice' for applying poststructuralist discourse analysis to written texts. He resolves the problem of a text's interpretive authority by analysing the 'markers of enunciation' readers follow in order to grasp the competing voices within any text. This is ground-breaking work in the field of discourse analysis.' - Judith Baxter, Aston University, UK

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.

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.

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
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