Dominique Maingueneau

Dominique Maingueneau (born 1950) is a French linguist, emeritus Professor at Sorbonne University (Paris). His research focuses on discourse analysis. It associates a pragmatic outlook on discourse with linguistic «enunciation» theories and some aspects of Michel Foucault's line of thought. Maingueneau studied linguistics and philosophy at the "École Normale Supérieure de Saint-Cloud" (1970-1974) and at the University of Paris 10 (now Paris Nanterre University). He obtained in 1974 a first PhD ("doctorat de 3° cycle") in linguistics: Building a discursive semantics; he was awarded a second one ("doctorat d’État") in 1979: Semantics of controversy. From discourse to interdiscourse. He became lecturer at the University of Amiens (1974), then professor (1988). In 2000 he moved to the University of Paris XII; from 2012 to 2019 he was professor of French linguistics and discourse analysis at the Sorbonne. He was a member of the Institut Universitaire de France (2006-2011)..... His books have been translated into thirteen languages. He has published on French linguistics, and above all on discourse analysis. In the latter area he has written a wide range of handbooks: Initiation aux méthodes de l’analyse du discours (1976), Nouvelles tendances en analyse du discours (1987), l’Analyse du discours (1991), Les termes clés de l’analyse du discours (1996), Analyser les textes de communication (1998), Discours et analyse du discours (2014). He was also the co-editor, with P. Charaudeau, of the Dictionnaire d’analyse du discours (2002). With J. Angermuller and R. Wodak he edited The Reader in Discourse Studies: Main currents in Theory and Analysis (2014). In his view, discourse analysis is only one of the disciplines belonging to discourse studies. Each of these disciplines (rhetoric, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, conversation analysis, etc.) is based on a specific interest. The interest of discourse analysis is to consider that discourse articulates text and social places.