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 reflexive 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
Qualifications 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 : reflections on writing this book = 173
Appendix = 176
References = 178
Index = 187
