Discursive Structure and Discourse Analysis: a Foucauldian Approach

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Carlos González-Domínguez, Dr.
Ana Maruri Montes de Oca, Dra.

Abstract

In discourse analysis, the utterance is the unit of analysis and not the sentence. For discourse analysis, what matters is to identify the relationship between the speaking subject and the object of enunciation, in terms of meaning, which can only be a social-historical product.  Hence, such an analysis is based on a theory of enunciation, and not on linguistics, since it is a matter of observing the sociodiscursive dimension of utterances and not the formalism of the sentence. In this sense, we will try to review (inspired by the theoretical contributions of Michel
Foucault, from The Archaeology of knowledge) how the notion of statement has its foundations in the process of enunciation. With this, we try to specify the notion of "discursive structure" as a unit of analysis in its methodological possibilities.

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González-Domínguez, C., & Maruri Montes de Oca, A. (2022). Discursive Structure and Discourse Analysis: a Foucauldian Approach. Revista Stultifera, 5(1), 105–127. https://doi.org/10.4206/rev.stultifera.2022.v5n1-06
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Artículos de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales
Author Biographies

Carlos González-Domínguez, Dr., Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, México.

Dr. en Ciencias de la Comunicación y se desempeña como profesor-investigador en la Facultad de Ciencias
Políticas y Sociales de la Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México.

Ana Maruri Montes de Oca, Dra., Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, México.

Dra. en Ciencias Sociales y se desempeña como investigadora adjunta en la Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales de la Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México.