Cultural Studies and Discourse Analysis : A Dialogue on Language and Identity

Acknowledgements ix Language, Culture, Discourse 1(27) About this book 2(1) Culture and language 3(1) Signs, texts and codes: structuralism in cultural studies 4(2) Reading signs 6(1) Talking to people 7(2) Poststructuralism and the crisis of representation 9(1) Derrida and cultural studies 10(2) The regulation of language 12(2) Wittgenstein and the uses of language 14(2) Rorty and the revival of pragmatism 16(2) Ethnographic and qualitative empirical work 18(4) Critical discourse analysis (CDA) 22(5) Conclusions 27(1) Language, Identity and Cultural Politics 28(34) Language and the cultured self 29(2) The metaphorical interior 31(6) Self-identity as a reflexive project 37(3) The fracturing of identity 40(2) Language, identities and social practice 42(3) Accounting for agency 45(2) Cultural discourse and biochemical bodies 47(5) Evolution and the limits of language 52(4) The cultural politics of language and identity 56(4) Summary and conclusions 60(2) Tools for Discourse Analysis 62(24) Textually oriented discourse analysis 62(2) Critical discourse analysis 64(5) The linguistic tools of discourse analysis 69(1) The ideational function 70(5) The interpersonal function 75(8) Qualifications and conclusions 83(3) The Name of the Father: Performing Masculine Identities 86(36) The performativity of identity 87(1) Man trouble 88(7) Talking of my father 95(1) Case Study: Daniel 96(13) Case Study: Maurice 109(8) Conclusions: Our Fathers 117(5) The Language of Ethnicity: The Unbearable Lightness of Being Polish? 122(34) The concept of ethnicity 122(1) National identities 123(3) Polish identity: an achievement of everyday language 126(6) Language and religion 132(1) Language and religion revisited 133(2) Ethnicity and working practices 135(3) Ethnicities to choose from 138(3) The unbearable dilemma of ethnicity 141(2) Agents and patients: the unbearable lightness of seeing 143(1) The analysis of agency 144(1) Agents and patients 145(3) Conclusions 148(2) Appendix 150(6) Intersections 156(22) The articulation of identities 156(3) Gendering ethnic identity 159(8) Gendering ethnic identity in context 167(6) In conclusion: reflections on writing this book 173(3) Appendix 176(2) References 178(9) Index 187