Mills Sara. Discourse

Monograph. — London - New York, Routledge, 1997. — 188 p. — (The New Critical Idiom). — ISBN: 0-415-13854-X, 0-415-11053-X.The term ‘discourse’ has a wider range of possible significations than any other term in literary and cultural theory. Yet it is often the term within theoretical texts which is least defined. Discourse uses a number of literary and non-literary texts to illustrate how the term has been used. Mills discusses the ways that feminist, colonial and post-colonial discourse theorists have appropriated the term developed by Michel Foucault for use in other contexts.
In this clear and helpful analysis, Sara Mills has provided a sense of the historical development of the term discourse as well as some straight-forward working definitions, as they are currently used within different disciplines.Series Editor's Preface
AcknowledgementsCultural theory/critical theory/literary theory
Mainstream linguistics
Social psychology/critical linguistics
Cultural theory and models of discourse
Michel Foucault and discourse
Literature as a discourse
Note
Discourse and ideology
Ideology and truth
The subject
Determinants of discourse
Language, discourse and ideology
Notes
Discursive structures
The episteme
The statement
The discourse/discourses
The archive
Exclusions within discourse
Circulation of discourses
Conclusions
Notes
Feminist theory and discourse theory
Confessional discourse
Discourses of femininity and heterosexuality
Access to discourse
Discourses in conflict
Conclusions
Notes
Colonial and post-colonial discourse theory
Othering
Challenging othering
Psychoanalysis and discourse theory
Conclusions
Notes
Discourse analysis, critical linguistics and social psychology
Discourse analysis
Social psychologists and discourse
Critical linguists/discourse theorists
Conclusions
Notes
Biblography
Index