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A Foucault Primer: Discourse, Power and the Subject
Who are we today? That deceptively simple question continued to be asked by the French historian and philosopher, Michel Foucault, who for the last three decades has had a profound influence on… Expand
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Semiotic Investigations: Towards an Effective Semiotics
- A. Mchoul
- Philosophy
- 1 June 1996
In Semiotic Investigations, Alec McHoul develops a theory of meaning that he calls "effective semiotics" - a theory that investigates "the ways in which signs have meaning by virtue of their actual… Expand
Mentality or morality? Membership categorization, multiple meanings and mass murder.
- M. Rapley, D. Mccarthy, A. Mchoul
- Sociology, Medicine
- The British journal of social psychology
- 1 September 2003
A central topic for social psychology is how we identify, categorize or represent ourselves to ourselves and to each other. Previous work on this topic stemming from attribution theory, social… Expand
Writing Pynchon: Strategies in Fictional Analysis.
This book explores some of the ways in which contemporary literary theory can be used to read fiction. In particular, it focuses on Thomas Pynchon's three novels to date and his collection of early… Expand
On the limits of language planning: Class, state and power
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Two aspects of classroom interaction, turn-taking and correction: A research report
- A. Mchoul
- Sociology, Computer Science
- 1 June 1985
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‘Killers’ and ‘Friendlies’: Names Can Hurt Me
- A. Mchoul
- Sociology
- 1 July 2007
This paper concerns an incident in 2003 when two American fighter pilots mistakenly fired on a ‘friendly’ British convoy and on the reportage of that incident in the British press some four years… Expand
Not going to expo: A theory of impositions
- A. Mchoul
- Engineering
- 1989
It was an entirely conscious decision: to go to Brisbane in the middle of the beer commercial called 'The Bicentennial' and not to go to Expo. Conscious but with reason? And, deeper mystery still:… Expand
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