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institutionally constructed possible subjectivities available to individuals; and
here, we would argue, close attention to forms of language within discursive
practices is central.
Just how much an adequate sociolinguistics could learn from the established
Anglo-American tradition we do not feel able to gauge abstractly here. However,
we consider this whole area to be one which needs urgent attention, in the light
of the general theoretical positions which we have defined for ourselves, through
our engagement with semiological and psychoanalytic theories of language and
with the work of Foucault, which we consider to be of central importance.