Shapes and boundaries of interdisciplinarity: analyzing institutional discourse
This article adopts a reflexive perspective of research that focuses on institutional discourse and relies on an ongoing work on the notion of "authoritative discourse". The paper proposes a double approach by taking in consideration the French trends in discourse analysis as well as the information and communication sciences. First, the paper reminds us that discourse analysis may be considered–if not exactly as an institutionalized "discipline"–as a field of research, linked in several ways to the issue of interdisciplinarity. The reflection follows three lines, each of them addressing a specific interdisciplinary configuration, where different points of theoretical and methodological elaborations are at stake. The first concerns the reflection on the "context" of the saying, the second addresses the dialogue between "disciplines of speech", the third focuses on the "return" to disciplines that were founding partners of discourse analysis.