TY - JOUR T1 - Rethinking Discourse Analysis: Back to Foucault AU - Kozhemyakin, Evgeny A. AU - Polonskiy, Andrey V. AU - Yakuba, Yana O. AU - Korolyova, Kseniya Y. JO - The Social Sciences VL - 10 IS - 6 SP - 1456 EP - 1459 PY - 2015 DA - 2001/08/19 SN - 1818-5800 DO - sscience.2015.1456.1459 UR - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=sscience.2015.1456.1459 KW - Discourse analysis KW -institutional discourses KW -Michel Foucault KW -discursive practices KW -discursive formations AB - Discourse studies, being widely spread in modern humanities, historically inherit the intellectual potential of French philosophy of 1960s. The study deals with the basic positions of the theory of discourse by Michel Foucault who interpreted discourse as the meanings distribution system. The impact of Foucauldian theory is grounded on its universality and systematic accuracy, while it contains a number of effects that could lead researchers towards discursive reductionism. The researcher concludes that return to Foucauldian ideas means re-articulating the problem of connections between the agent and the discourse. ER -