This book presents developments of discourse analysis in France and applies its tools to key texts from five theorists of structuralism: Lacan, Althusser, Foucault, Derrida and Sollers. It pays special attention to enunciative pragmatics as a poststructuralist approach which analyzes the discursive construction of subjectivity.

This book presents developments in French linguistic theory and discourse analysis, notably the enunciative-pragmatic tradition. While French pragmatics has never been presented systematically in the English-speaking world, similar problems have been dealt with in systemic-functional linguistics, pragmatics and Critical Discourse Analysis.

Preface 1. Introduction: Poststructuralism and Enunciative Pragmatics 2. A History of Discourse Analysis in France 2.1. From Discursive Formation to Enunciative Heterogeneity 2.2. Discourse as Utterance and Enunciation: The Field of Enunciative Pragmatics 2.3. Elements of Enunciative Discourse Analysis: Indexicality, Polyphony, Preconstruct 3. A Methodology of Discourse Analysis 3.1. From Understanding to Analyzing Discourse 3.2. A Discourse Analytical Research Design 3.3. Polyphony and Scenography: The Activity of the Reader 4. Analyzing Intellectual Discourse: Variations on the Critique of Humanism 4.1. Five Protagonists of Theoretical Discourse 4.2. Jacques Lacan: The Return to (the Subject of) Freud 4.3. Louis Althusser: Marxism as Anti-humanism 4.4. Michel Foucault: The End of the Age of 'Man' 4.5. Jacques Derrida: The Metaphysics of the Text 4.6. Tel Quel: Narrating the Revolution 5. Conclusion: The Subject of Discourse References ?