Discourse Analysis Quotes

Lacan , Derrida and Foucault are the perfect prophets for the weak, anxious academic personality, trapped in verbal formulas and perennially defeated by circumstances. They offer a self-exculpating cosmic explanation for the normal professorial state of resentment, alienation, dithering passivity and inaction.

You ain't learning nothing when you're talking.

There is the English language and then there's the Trump language.

An anti-Semite used to mean a man who hated Jews. Now it means a man who is hated by Jews.

I'm "on" to monitor what is going on in Brewster. I do not post anymore. Just watching the idiots pontificate.

I am just postmodern enough not to trust 'postmodern' as a description of our times, for it privileges the practices and intellectual formations of modernity. Calling this a postmodern age reproduces the modernist assumption that history must be policed by periods.

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

I know what the structure of the language is.

… words acquire scope and function from the history of events which they summarize

Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional.

Obama spoke so slowly because he, a clever and cultured man, had constantly to be on his guard against sounding it.

The meanings of words and the uses of words come from practice from the way people in a given culture use those words.

I may not be smart enough to debate you point-for-point on this, but I have the feeling about 60% of what you say is crap.

The unconscious is the discourse of the Other.

That which separates ourselves from previous generations is rhetoric.

Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments.

In U.S. discourse, immigrants are mostly represented as less than human, a policy problem, or as just that, a category, and categories are prisons.

He who frames the question wins the debate.

On 'Question Time,' I've noticed great anger from the audience. When we discuss Brexit, emotions range from white-hot fury to cold, grey apathy. As soon as we move off Brexit, debate is much more nuanced and considered.

If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning.

The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.

The integers of language are sentences, and their organs are the parts of speech. Linguistic organization, then, consists in the differentiation of the parts of speech and the integration of the sentence.

No theory ever agrees with all the facts in its domain, yet it is not always the theory that is to blame. Facts are constituted by older ideologies, and a clash between facts and theories may be proof of progress.

I'm not getting into a public debate with Jack Nicklaus.

[Knowledge is governed not by] a theory of knowledge, but by a theory of discursive practice.