Thomas Scheff on Michael Billig:
"In my view, Billig's use of discourse analysis has the potential of transforming an entire field of endeavor. Although Billig modestly claims only to clarify Freud's theory of repression, the book lays the groundwork for a complete re-statement of psychoanalytic theory as a whole. By focusing on the details of dialogue, Billig's work portends a psychoanalytic theory and method that is virtually new."
This guy went for the big one with his thesis: What Hath Bakhtin Wrought?
Toward a Unified Theory of
Literature and Composition.
Find this! Stuart Hall on Ethnicity and the Discursive Turn.
Here's another one: Taking the discursive turn: Critical studies in language, discrimination and schooling.
This social movement study,
COLLECTIVE IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION IN BLACK ABOLITIONIST DISCOURSE, adopts an approach in which movement discourse is viewed as a networked field of concepts from which arguments are fashioned. This approach requires an examination of the socio-cognitive structure of a discourse, an analysis of its rhetoric, as well as its ideological foundations."
