cultural studies and discourse analysis

Contents

Acknowledgements ix
1 Language, Culture, Discourse 1
About this book 2
Culture and language 3
Signs, texts and codes: structuralism in cultural studies 4
Reading signs 6
Talking to people 7
Poststructuralism and the crisis of representation 9
Derrida and cultural studies 10
The regulation of language 12
Wittgenstein and the uses of language 14
Rorty and the revival of pragmatism 16
Ethnographic and qualitative empirical work 18
Critical discourse analysis (CDA) 22
Conclusions 27
2 Language, Identity and Cultural Politics 28
Language and the cultured self 29
The metaphorical interior 31
Self-identity as a re¯exive project 37
The fracturing of identity 40
Language, identities and social practice 42
Accounting for agency 45
Cultural discourse and biochemical bodies 47
Evolution and the limits of language 52
The cultural politics of language and identity 56
Summary and conclusions 60
3 Tools for Discourse Analysis 62
Textually oriented discourse analysis 62
Critical discourse analysis 64
The linguistic tools of discourse analysis 69
The ideational function 70
The interpersonal function 75
Quali®cations and conclusions 83
4 The Name of the Father: Performing Masculine Identities 86
The performativity of identity 87
Man trouble 88
Talking of my father 95
Case Study:Daniel 96
Case Study:Maurice 109
Conclusions: Our Fathers . . . 117
5 The Language of Ethnicity: The Unbearable Lightness of
Being Polish? 122
The concept of ethnicity 122
National identities 123
Polish identity: an achievement of everyday language 126
Language and religion 132
Language and religion revisited 133
Ethnicity and working practices 135
Ethnicities to choose from . . . 138
The unbearable dilemma of ethnicity 141
Agents and patients: the unbearable lightness of seeing 143
The analysis of agency 144
Agents and patients 145
Conclusions 148
Appendix 150
6 Intersections 156
The articulation of identities 156
Gendering ethnic identity 159
Gendering ethnic identity in context 167
In conclusion: re¯ections on writing this book 173
Appendix 176
References 178
Index 187