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Discourse Theory: Ways forward for theory development and research practice
Edited by Benjamin De Cleen, Jana Goyvaerts, Nico Carpentier, Jason Glynos, Yannis Stavrakakis and Ilija Tomanić Trivundža
[Journal of Language and Politics 20:1] 2021
► pp. 1–9

An introduction to the special issue on ‘Discourse Theory: Ways forward for theory development and research practice’

ORCID logo | Vrije Universiteit Brussel
| Vrije Universiteit Brussel
| Charles University
| University of Essex
| Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
| University of Ljubljana

This article introduces the special issue of the Journal of Language and Politics on ‘Discourse Theory: Ways forward for theory development and research practice.’ In this introduction we discuss the aims and structure of this special issue focused on the development of the poststructuralist and post-Marxist discourse theory originally developed by Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe.

Keywords: discourse theory, discourse analysis, Ernesto Laclau, Chantal Mouffe
Article outline
  • 1.Aims and structure of the special issue
  • 2.Politics as construction of the unthinkable
  • 3.Inspiration and further development
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 14 December 2020
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https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.20077.dec
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