Glyn Williams is Director of the Research Centre Wales and Reader in Sociology at the University of Wales, Bangor. His previous publications include Sociolinguistics: A Sociological Critique (1992)

• Introduction 1 Modernism and the philosophy of language 2 Structuralism 3 Post-structuralism 4 Materialism and Discourse 5 The struggle with idealism 6 Form and discourse 7 Lexicology and distributionalism 8 Methodological issues 9 Post-structuralism, normativity and the ontology of being.

Glyn Williams is Director of the Research Centre Wales and Reader in Sociology at the University of Wales, Bangor. His previous publications include Sociolinguistics: A Sociological Critique (1992)

• Introduction 1 Modernism and the philosophy of language 2 Structuralism 3 Post-structuralism 4 Materialism and Discourse 5 The struggle with idealism 6 Form and discourse 7 Lexicology and distributionalism 8 Methodological issues 9 Post-structuralism, normativity and the ontology of being.

Glyn Williams is Director of the Research Centre Wales and Reader in Sociology at the University of Wales, Bangor. His previous publications include Sociolinguistics: A Sociological Critique (1992)

• Introduction 1 Modernism and the philosophy of language 2 Structuralism 3 Post-structuralism 4 Materialism and Discourse 5 The struggle with idealism 6 Form and discourse 7 Lexicology and distributionalism 8 Methodological issues 9 Post-structuralism, normativity and the ontology of being.