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Discourse and Power:
An Introduction to Critical Narratology: Who Narrates Whom? is both an introduction to discourse research and an application of the concept of discourse to the problem of power.
List of contents
Introduction: Language and Power
PART ONE: THEORY
I. How We Think and are Being Thought: From Michel Foucault to Louis Althusser and Michel Pêcheux
II. Power and Authority in Language: Pierre Bourdieu's
Authorised Language and Jan Blomaert's
VoiceIII. "Critical Discourse Analysis": Norman Fairclough's Linguistic Perspective
IV. From Structural Semiotics to the Sociology of Texts: Discourse and Power
PART TWO: PRACTICE
V. Who Narrates Whom? Ideology, Stigma and Narrative Control of the Subject in Luigi Pirandello and Erving Goffman
VI. The Submission of the Subject to the Discourses of the Law: From Albert Camus's
The Outsider to Artur London's
On TrialVII. The Discourses of the Presidents Barack Obama, Donald Trump and Joe Biden: Modalities, Helpers and Actants
VIII. The Power Factor in Sociological Discussions: Who Narrates Whom?
Outlook: Power - Discourse - Fear
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Peter V. Zima was Professor of General and Comparative Literature at the Alpen-Adria University of Klagenfurt (Austria) until 2012. He became corr. member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Vienna) in 1998 and member of the European Academy of Sciences (London) in 2010. In 2014 he was appointed honorary professor of the East China Normal University in Shanghai.
Summary
Discourse and Power: An Introduction to Critical Narratology: Who Narrates Whom? is both an introduction to discourse research and an application of the concept of discourse to the problem of power.
