Johannes Angermuller

Johannes Angermuller
Born	1973 Erlangen, Germany
Residence	UK, France
Other names	Johannes Angermüller
Awards	ERC Grantee
Academic work
Main interests	Discourse Studies, linguistics, sociology
Notable works	Why There Is No Poststructuralism in France, Poststructuralist Discourse Analysis, The Discourse Studies Reader

Johannes Angermuller is a discourse researcher in linguistics and sociology. He is Professor of Discourse in the Centre for Applied Linguistics at Warwick (UK) and a member of CEMS/EHESS in Paris. He lives in London and Paris.

Biography

Born in 1973, he grew up in Erlangen, a Franconian town in southern Germany. His parents are mathematicians but he became interested in questions of language when he discovered James Joyce. After time spent as a student at Duke University and St. Petersburg State University, he obtained a Master’s degree in sociology, Eastern European history and American Studies from Erlangen-Nuremberg University. At Duke he encountered Fred Jameson, who aroused his passion for (French) Theory.^[1] While doing his PhD, he began to live in Paris (France), where Dominique Maingueneau introduced him to discourse analysis.^[2] From 1999 to 2009, he was a lecturer of sociology at Magdeburg University in eastern Germany. In 2003, he finished a binational PhD in (linguistic) discourse analysis (University of East Paris) and sociology (University of Magdeburg). From 2009 to 2012, he taught as a Professor (W1) of the Sociology of Higher Education at Mainz University (Germany). In 2012, he was appointed (Research) Professor of Discourse at the Centre for Applied Linguistics at Warwick, near Coventry (UK). Warwick University is in Coventry, between London and Birmingham (UK). He also joined the Centre d’Etude des Mouvements Sociaux at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. His name then lost the umlaut but older publications are still signed “Angermüller”.

Academic profile

Having a background in sociology and linguistics, Angermuller is known for his work in Discourse Studies and poststructuralism. His research interests centre around the discursive construction of social order. His methodological focus is on the social effects of language in use. While addressing questions of power, knowledge and social change, he has pursued research on academic, educational as well as political discourses. Trained in German sociology, French linguistic discourse analysis and the qualitative traditions of German and North American social sciences, he specialises in enunciative pragmatics as a linguistic approach to subjectivity in language. In his studies of academic and political discourses, he perceives discourse as a positioning practice contributing to the construction of social order. He is the Principal Investigator of the ERC DISCONEX research team (2013–2018) that investigates the positioning practices and cultures of researchers in the social sciences and humanities in the U.S., France, Germany and the UK. Angermuller coordinates DiscourseNet, an interdisciplinary and international network of discourse researchers. With Daniel Wrana, he set up the multilingual Web portal Discourseanalysis.net. With Martin Nonhoff, he launched the Gradnet graduate conferences at Erlangen in 1999. He is co-editor of a number of book series, such as: the Palgrave Book Series Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse; the transcript DiscourseNet book series; Peter Lang: Transpects; LIT: Discursive Productions.

Publications

Angermuller, Johannes (2014): Poststructuralist Discourse Analysis. Subjectivity in Enunciative Pragmatics. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 978-1-137-44246-8 [French version: Analyse du discours poststructuraliste. Les voix du sujet dans le language chez Lacan, Althusser, Foucault, Derrida et Sollers. Limoges: Lambert Lucas, 2013, ISBN 978-2-35935-076-0].

Angermuller, Johannes (2015): Why There Is No Poststructuralism in France. The Making of an Intellectual Generation. London: Bloomsbury, ISBN 978-1474226325 [French version: Le Champ de la Théorie. Essor et déclin du structuralisme en France. Paris: Hermann, 2013, ISBN 978-2-705-68349-8; Portuguese version: Análise de discurso pós-estruturalista. As vozes do sujeito na linguagem em Lacan, Althusser, Foucault, Derrida e Sollers. Campinas: Pontes, 2016, ISBN 978-8-571-13734-9].

Angermuller, Johannes/ Maingueneau, Dominique/ Wodak, Ruth (eds) (2014): The Discourse Studies Reader. Main Currents in Theory and Analysis. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins, ISBN 978-9-027-21211-5, 417 pages.

Angermuller, Johannes/ Nonhoff, Martin/ Herschinger, Eva/ Macgilchrist, Felicitas/ Reisigl, Martin/ Wedl, Juliette/ Wrana, Daniel/ Ziem, Alexander (eds) (2014): Diskursforschung. Ein interdisziplinäres Handbuch. Band I: Theorien, Methodologien und Kontroversen. Band II: Methoden und Analysepraxis. Perspektiven auf Hochschulreformdiskurse. [Discourse Studies. An Interdisciplinary Handbook. Vol. I: Theories, Methodologies and Controversies. Vol. II: Methods and analytical practice. Studying discourses of higher education reforms.] Bielefeld: transcript, ISBN 978-3-8376-2722-0, 1250 pages.

Wrana, Daniel/ Ziem, Alexander/ Reisigl, Martin/ Nonhoff, Martin/ Angermuller, Johannes (eds) (2014): DiskursNetz. Wörterbuch der interdisziplinären Diskursforschung. [DiscourseNet. Dictionary of Interdisciplinary Discourse Studies]. Berlin: Suhrkamp, ISBN 978-3-518-29697-4, 560 pages.

Angermuller, Johannes/ Philippe, Gilles (eds) (2015): Analyse du discours et dispositifs d’énonciation. Autour des travaux de Dominique Maingueneau, Limoges: Lambert-Lucas, ISBN 978-2-35935-137-8, 310 pages.

External links

• http://discoursenet.discourseanalysis.net
• http://www.johannes-angermuller.net
• http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/al/staff/teaching/angermuller
• http://cems.ehess.fr/index.php?2524

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