In this thought-provoking book, Billig presents major essays which develop and illustrate his rhetorical approach to social psychology.

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.

"In Freudian Repression, Michael Billig presents an original reformulation of Freud's concept of repression, showing that in his theory of the unconscious he fails to examine how people actually repress shameful thoughts.

The book stresses that the members of the audience contribute to the meaning of the ceremony by their partisan displays of approval and disapproval.

A disciplined study that reveals the many contributions of Jews throughout the history of rock 'n' roll.

On how to rebuild theory and criticism in the wake of postmodernism