Books written by Michael Billig

Ideological Dilemmas: A Social Psychology of Everyday Thinking

Herzlich , C. and J. Pierret ( 1985 ) “ The social construction of the patient : patients and illnesses in other ages ' , Social Science ... Jowell , R. , S. Witherspoon and L. Brook ( 1986 ) British Social Attitudes : the 1986 Report .
Social Psychology: Conflicts and Continuities

Or , taking the words of Bryman ( 1986 , p . 30 ) ' leadership is not simply a matter of effecting changes in other people's behaviour , but more to do with enhancing their voluntary compliance ' . The latter neatly links leadership ...
Banal Nationalism

Wetherell , M. and Potter , J. ( 1992 ) . Mapping the Language of Racism . Hemel Hempstead : Harvester / Wheatsheaf . ... One of Us : a Biography of Margaret Thatcher . London : Pan Books . Yuval - Davies , N. ( 1993 ) .
Arguing and Thinking: A Rhetorical Approach to Social Psychology

Wetherell , M. and Potter , J. ( 1992 ) . Mapping the Language of Racism . Hemel Hempstead : Harvester / Wheatsheaf . ... One of Us : a biography of Margaret Thatcher . London : Pan Books . Zimbardo , P. G. , Ebbesen , E. B. and Maclean ...
Ideology and Opinions: Studies in Rhetorical Psychology

Johns bases her pamphlet upon Ben Klassen's Nature's Eternal Religion , which also asserted that Jews have created Christianity to dupe the masses . Yet having cited Klassen's deeply antisemitic arguments as the authoritative source for ...
The Hidden Roots of Critical Psychology: Understanding the Impact of Locke, Shaftesbury and Reid

Books as good as this are rare′ - Alan Collins, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Lancaster University Today new forms of critical psychology are challenging the cognitive revolution that has dominated psychology for the past three decades.
Learn to Write Badly: How to Succeed in the Social Sciences

Prosser and Webb found that successful essay writers did this regularly — that is, they used 'the textual metafunction' (or gave pointers to the structure) more than did unsuccessful essay writers. Then, Prosser and Webb analysed the ...
More Examples, Less Theory

Plotnik, J. M., de Waal, F. B. M. and Reiss. D. (2006). Self-recognition in an Asian elephant. ... In V. Evans, B. Bergen and J. Zinken (eds), The Cognitive Linguistics Reader. London: Equinox. Reicher, S. D. (1996).
Banal Nationalism

... W., 14, 27, 55—6 Conover, P.J., 2, 126 Coughlan, R.M., 7, 56 Csikszentmihalyi, M., 108 Cumberbatch, G., 123 Cunningham, H., 88 D'Azeglio, Massimo, 25, 27 Delors, Jacques, 141, 142 Der Derian, J., 83, 90 Deutsch, K., 43 Devine, P.G., ...
Laughter and Ridicule: Towards a Social Critique of Humour

... 215 Brown , S. D. 116 Buckley , W. 241 Burke , P. 59 Bush , B.A. 158 Bush , G.H.W. , President , 224 , 225 Bush , G.W. , President , 241 Buss , A.H. 197 , 221 , 222 Butler , S. 67 , 73 Bacon , F. 14 Bain , A. , 6 , 7 , 86-93 , 95–98 ...
Learn to Write Badly: How to Succeed in the Social Sciences

We might say that someone like Adam Smith was writing in small words for big circles. ... might find ourselves using the same words to talk of very different things (Hyland, 2009, Hyland and Tse, 2007; Martinez, Beck and Panza, 2009).
Freudian Repression: Conversation Creating the Unconscious

In J. Singer ( ed ) , Repression and Dissociation : Implications for Personality Theory , Psychopathology and Health . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Holquist , M. ( 1990 ) . Dialogism : Bakhtin and his World .
Laughter and Ridicule: Towards a Social Critique of Humour

mirror to check her jaw and, it is said, that 'this made everyone (excluding the butt-of-the-joke) laugh even louder' (Van Giffen and Maher, 1995: 49). Some of incidents, reported by Van Giffen and Maher, fit the type of 'temporary ...
Rock 'n' Roll Jews

5 Manning , Dick ( Samuel Medoff ) , 29 Mimms , Garnett , 81 , 82 , 84–85 Mintz , Leo , 31 Mitchell , Joni , 163 Modern Sounds In Country And Western , 74n . 14 Mom - e - le ' , 39 Monkees , 99 moral vision , 58-60 , 68 Morrison ...
Learn to Write Badly: How to Succeed in the Social Sciences

And which linguistic features contribute towards this bad writing? Michael Billig's witty and entertaining book analyses these questions in a quest to pinpoint exactly what is going wrong with the way social scientists write.
Banal Nationalism

Michael Billig presents a major challenge to orthodox conceptions of nationalism in this elegantly written book.
Banal Nationalism

Michael Billig presents a major challenge to orthodox conceptions of nationalism in this elegantly written book.
Talking of the Royal Family

Now with a new preface, Talking of the Royal Family was the first serious full-length study of royalty to emerge from this rhetorical perspective and remains relevant today.
Laughing and Ridicule: Towards a Social Critique of Laughter

Tackling the assumption that laughter and humour are necessarily good in themselves, this text develops a critique of humour, proposing a social theory that places humour in the form of ridicule as central to social life.
After Postmodernism: Reconstructing Ideology Critique

This interdisciplinary book addresses the key questions posed by the postmodernist challenge: Is it possible to reflect and criticize in an age when every claim to truth is placed under suspicion?