TEXTUAL POLITICS: DISCOURSE AND SOCIAL DYNAMICS

Jay L. Lemke, City University of New York

Taylor & Francis Publishing, London, 1995

Textual Politics: Bibliography

CHAPTER 1. TEXTUAL POLITICS, AN INTRODUCTION

• Ideology and Us
• Ideology and Me
• Language, Discourse, and Meaning
• Social Semiotics
• Language, Ideology, and Power

CHAPTER 2. DISCOURSE AND SOCIAL THEORY

• Requirements for a Social Theory
• Social Theories of Discourse
• Bakhtin and Heteroglossia
• Halliday and Bernstein: Register and Code
• Foucault's Discursive Formations
• Bourdieu and Discourse Habitus

CHAPTER 3. DISCOURSES IN CONFLICT: HETEROGLOSSIA AND TEXT SEMANTICS

• Heteroglossia and Text Semantics
• Discourses in Conflict: The Discourse of the "Moral Majority" and The Discourse of Gay Rights

CHAPTER 4. TECHNICAL DISCOURSE AND TECHNOCRATIC IDEOLOGY

• Introduction
• Technical Features and Technocratic Functions
• Thematic Condensation in Technical Discourse
• Analyzing Orientational Meaning
• Technocratic Discourse and Its Ideology
• Technocratic Discourse Strategies: The Case of "Home Curriculum"
• Technocratic and Value-Centered Discourses in Conflict

CHAPTER 5. THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE MATERIAL SUBJECT

• Conflating Material and Social Individuals
• The Material Individual and the Semiotic Body
• The Social Subject
• Critical Anomalies for the Notion of a Unitary Individual
• The Specification Hierarchy for Human Systems
• The Social Construction of Subjectivity

CHAPTER 6. DISCOURSE, DYNAMICS, AND SOCIAL CHANGE

• Discourse and Cultural Dynamics
• Social Semiotics and Cultural Dynamics
• The Dynamics of Complex Systems
• Epigenesis, Evolution, and Emergence
• Ecosystem Dynamics
• Ecosocial Dynamics and Semogenesis
• Prediction, Control, and Responsibility

CHAPTER 7. CRITICAL PRAXIS: EDUCATION, LITERACY, POLITICS

• Social control and social change
• Education: Schooling, Curriculum, and Social Control
• Literacy: Dialect, Genre, and Social Diversity
• Politics: Discourse, Democracy, and Social Change

RETROSPECTIVE POSTSCRIPT: MAKING MEANING, MAKING TROUBLE

• The Trap of Theory: Reflexivity and Praxis
• Communities as Dynamic Open Systems
• Making Meaning: Contextualization and Meta-redundancy
• Making Trouble: Disjunctions, Slippage, and System Change