Published in association with The Open University.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1 Themes in Discourse Research: The Case of Diana -- Margaret Wetherell -- 2 From Saussure to Critical Sociolinguistics: The Turn Towards a Social View of Language -- Gunther Kress -- 3 Wittgenstein and Austin -- Jonathan Potter -- 4 Goffman, Garfinkel and Conversation Analysis -- John Heritage -- 5 The Ethnography of Speaking: Sapir/Whorf, Hymes and Moerman -- Kristine Fitch -- 6 Language, Struggle and Voice: The Bakhtin/Volosinov Writings -- Janet Maybin -- 7 Foucault: Power, Knowledge and Discourse -- I Stuart Hall -- PART TWO: SOCIAL INTERACTION -- Editor's Introduction -- Simeon J. Yates -- 8 Footing -- Erving Goffman -- 9 Lecture 1: Rules of Conversational Sequence -- Harvey Sacks 10 The Construction of 'Delicate' Objects in Counselling -- David Silverman -- 11 Interethnic Communication -- John Gumperz -- 12 The Relativity of Linguistic Strategies: Rethinking Power and Solidarity in Gender and Dominance -- Deborah Tannen -- 13 Just Say No? The Use of Conversation Analysis in Developing a Feminist Perspective on Sexual Refusal -- Celia Kitzinger and Hannah Frith -- PART THREE: MINDS, SELVES AND SENSE MAKING -- Editor's Introduction -- Margaret Wetherell -- 14 Unfolding Discourse Analysis -- Jonathan Potter and Margaret Wetherell -- 15 Discursive, Rhetorical and Ideological Messages -- Michael Billig -- 16 The Multivoicedness of Meaning -- James Wertsch -- 17 Emotion -- Derek Edwards -- 18 Self-Narration in Social Life -- Kenneth Gergen -- 19 Positioning: The Discursive Production of Selves -- Bronwyn Davies and Rom Harre -- 20 Gender Difference and the Production of Subjectivity -- Wendy Hollway -- PART FOUR: CULTURE AND SOCIAL RELATIONS -- Editor's Introduction -- Margaret Wetherell -- 21 Social Semiotics -- Robert Hodge and Gunther Kress -- 22 Principles of Critical Discourse Analysis -- Teun Van Dijk -- 23 Textualizing Global Politics -- Michael Shapiro -- 24 The Spectacle of the Other -- Stuart Hall -- 25 The Construction of an LD Student: A Case Study in the Politics of Representation -- Hugh Mehan -- 26 The Tavistock Programme: The Government of Subjectivity and Social Life -- Peter Miller and Nikolas Rose -- CONCLUSION -- 27 Debates in Discourse Research -- Margaret Wetherell -- Index.