| Summary: | If a discipline can be defined by its method rather than by its object, can philosophical Discourse Analysis be considered a full-ledged discipline? To answer this question, we have to examine the effect of the adjective “philosophical” on the noun “Discourse Analysis”: does it just restrict a field, or reorient a method, if not modify the heuristic and theoretical presuppositions of Discourse Analysis as a discipline? This question asks for an exploration of the relationship between the philosophical corpus to the discipline of Discourse Analysis, and of the tools and methods used by philosophical Discourse Analysis. We offer a cartography of the latter seeing it as a theoretical but also practical activity. Our contention is that as such, it calls for a redefinition both of Discourse Analysis and of philosophy.
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