ABSTRACT
Sara Mills offers an accessible and comprehensive analysis of the term 'discourse' and explores the theoretical assumptions underlying it. This handy, easy to follow pocket guidebook for students provides:
- straightforward working definitions
- historical developments of the term
- studied analysis of Michel Foucault
- discussion of the appropriation of the term 'discourse' by feminist, colonial and post-colonial discourse theorists
- examples of literary and non-literary texts to illustrate the use of 'discourse'.
