Theories of Discourse

Copyright 1986 Diane Macdonell; first published 1986, REPRINTED 1987 — this copy; ISBN 0-631-14839-6 paperback; LC 85-18679. A short, clear route through the French theory of discourse: the end of the 1960s and structuralism’s demise, May 1968 and questions of practice, the Althusserian turn from ideology to discourse, Pêcheux, Hindess and Hirst, and FOUCAULT’s archaeologies of knowledge. It is the most Continental book on a shelf otherwise dominated by Anglo-American work, and the natural companion to the Beaugrande and Dressler volume.