Discourse analysis foucauldian perspective: Method and knowledge generation

Abstract

Social Sciences finds in the discourse analysis a valuable tool, when it fosters its knowledge in different theoretical and methodological frames. However, turning to the discourse analysis is not predominant in this field. Scholars, who utilize it, are usually academicians who stem from certain disciplines such as Communication and Rhetoric Studies, or Language Sciences. Other social scientists, when intending to put the discourse analysis into practice, either theyignore it, confuse it, or they do not have the analytical resources to approach it. This is why our main interest in this paper aims at reflecting about the discourse analysis importance and its epistemological possibilities—especially, as a theoretical-methodological element of the Social Science development.

Keywords

• Discourse analysis
• Subject
• Foucauldian archeology and genealogy.