Debate: This Thing Called Discourse

What difference a discourse makes

Authors

  • Peter du Preez

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17159//2309-8708/1998/n23a7

Abstract

Review

Levett, A, Kottler, A, Burman, E & Parker, I (eds) (1997) Culture, power and difference: Discourse analysis in South Africa. London & New Jersey: Zed Books; Cape Town: University of Cape Town Press. ISBN 1-919713-08-5. Pbk, 210 pages.

Perhaps the best way to start this review is to examine the first and last chapters, written by the editors and providing the frame of the book. What's discourse analysis about? Briefly, it's about the performances of power as revealed in texts. These performances get interpreted in new performances of power by discourse analysts.

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Published

2026-01-18

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du Preez, P. (2026). Debate: This Thing Called Discourse: What difference a discourse makes. PINS-Psychology in Society, (23). https://doi.org/10.17159//2309-8708/1998/n23a7

Issue

No. 23 (1998)

Section

Debate

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