Authors : Evgeny A. Kozhemyakin, Andrey V. Polonskiy, Yana O. Yakuba and Kseniya Y. Korolyova
Abstract: Discourse studies, being widely spread in modern humanities, historically inherit the intellectual potential of French philosophy of 1960s. The study deals with the basic positions of the theory of discourse by Michel Foucault who interpreted discourse as the meanings distribution system. The impact of Foucauldian theory is grounded on its universality and systematic accuracy, while it contains a number of effects that could lead researchers towards discursive reductionism. The researcher concludes that return to Foucauldian ideas means re-articulating the problem of connections between the agent and the discourse.
Evgeny A. Kozhemyakin, Andrey V. Polonskiy, Yana O. Yakuba and Kseniya Y. Korolyova, 2015. Rethinking Discourse Analysis: Back to Foucault. The Social Sciences, 10: 1456-1459.