Szimpozion a politikai diskurzuselemzésről
Discourse Analysis

Summary/Abstract: The texts are translations of articles from the autumn 2002 issue of European Political Science, a quarterly by the European Consortium for Political Research. These texts make up the ”research” section of the issue and focus on a specific topic: discourse analysis. All authors endeavor to highlight the recent scientific developments in the field of discourse analysis; nevertheless, all try to underline a specific subtopic. Terrell Carver tries to sum up 20th Century philosophical developments in connection with the changing roles of „language” and „narrative” in the political discourse. Jacob Torfing presents us a scheme on the post-structuralist strand of discourse analysis – centered on meaning -, which can be associated with the name of Laclau and Mouffe. Véronique Mottier puts the ways identity (social, political) is conceived into a historical context; she compares present-day (discourse analysis-based) views on identities with traditional ones. Maarten Hajer introduces the „Argumentative turn” in discourse analysis and talks about thee way discourse analysis changed the way researchers are dealing with public policy questions. These texts, together with the introduction and the conclusion, are short „snapshots” of what this fairly new discipline of political science, „discourse analysis”, stands for. Moreover, they try to defend, to promote it against the dominant influence of traditional research.

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