Showing a limited preview of this publication:
Abstract
This paper questions the notion of discourse both in its particularities and its vagueness: it can be thought of as outside communication (“discourse structures our beliefs”) and on the other hand as referring to genres (“the discourses around publicity”). Having distinguished discourse from text (suchandsuch a text relates to political discourse), discourse from sentence (the former being a discourselevel matter), and discourse from language (according to the language/speech distinction), we examine the diversity of discourses. Finally, we look at two discourse regimes which do not fall under traditional textuality: the Internet and aphorizing utterances.