Discourse Analysis Timeline

By jhengstler

  • Early Influences before 1928

    *Greeks (e.g. rhetoric)
    *Marx
    *Saussure
    *Durkheim

  • Spitzer, L. (1928). Stilstudien [Style Studies].

    Considered by some to be first work of discourse analysis.
    Later translated by Foucault with others.

  • Bartes, R.

  • Lacan, J.

    1940s-70s

  • Derrida, J.

    1940s-70s

  • Harris, Z. (1952). Discourse Analysis. Language, 28(1), 1-30. doi:1. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/409987 doi:1

    Pens term, "discourse analysis"
    Based on previous years of work.

  • Lauriault, J. mid 1950s

    Working with Quechua legend translation errors & another Peruvian language, identified "discourse rules that transcended the simple sentence structure" (Discourse analysis, 2016).
    Lauriault later went to work with Z. Harris at University of Pennsylvania.

  • Foucault, M. c. 1960s

  • Foucault translates Spitzer's (1928) Stilstudien

    Etudes de style with E. Kaufholz, & A. Couchon. (Paris, FR: Galliard)

  • Postman, N. & Weingartner, C. (1966).

    Linguistics: A revolution in teaching.

  • Freire, P. (1968).

    Pedagogy of the Oppressed. New York, NY: Seabury Press.

  • Foucault, M. (1969).

    L'archéologie du savoir [The archaeology of knowledge]. Paris, FR: Editions Gallimard.

  • Postman, N. & Weingartner, C. (1969).

    Teaching as a subversive activity. New York, NY: Dell.

  • 1970s-80s Influencers

    Schiffin, D.
    Lakoff, R.
    Tannen, ?
    Hamilton, ?

  • Development of notations conventions

    E.g.s.
    *London-Lund Corpos 1970s-80s
    * Schiffrin, D. & Lakoff, R. (1989) in course "Data Packet" for "Discourse" classes at Berkeley and Georgetown Universities

  • Heath, S. early 1980s

    Heath, S. (1983). Ways with words: Language, life, and work in communities and classrooms. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Looks at how the home context influences students' meaning-making in the classroom in the Piedmont plateau region of North Carolina, US.

  • Laclau, E. & Mouffe, C. (1985).

    Laclau, E. & Mouffe, C. (1985). Hegemony and socialist strategy: Toward a radical democratic politics (2nd ed.). London, UK: Verso.

  • Freire, P. (1998).

    Teachers as cultural workers: Letters to those who dare teach. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

  • Jorgenson, M. & Phillips, L. (2002).

    Discourse analysis as theory and method. London, UK: Sage.