Professor Michael Billig

biography : publications : workshops & talks : links

Books
Billig, M. (1995). Banal Nationalism. London: Sage Publications.

Billig, M. (1996). Arguing and Thinking: a rhetorical approach to social psychology, revised edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Billig, M. (1998). Talking of the Royal Family: second edition with new introduction. London: Routledge.

Billig, M. (1999). Freudian Repression: conversation creating the unconscious. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Billig, M. (2000). Rock’n’Roll Jews. Nottingham: Five Leaves/ New York: Syracuse University Press.

Billig, M. (2005). Laughter and Ridicule: towards a social critique of humour. London: Sage.

Billig, M. (2008). The Hidden Roots of Critical Psychology: understanding the impact of Locke, Shaftesbury and Reid. London: Sage.

Articles and Book Chapters

Billig, M. (1997). The dialogic unconscious: psychoanalysis, discursive psychology and the nature of repression. British Journal of Social Psychology, 36, 139-159.

Billig, M. (1997). Freud and Dora: repressing an oppressed identity. Theory, Culture and Society, 14, 29-55.

Billig, M. (1998). Dialogic repression and the Oedipus Complex: reinterpreting the Little Hans case. Culture and Psychology, 4, 11-47.

Billig, M. (1999). Commodity fetishism and repression: reflections on Marx, Freud and the psychology of consumer capitalism. Theory and Psychology, 9, 313-329.

Billig, M. (1999). Freud’s response to reported incest: the case of Paul Lorenz, the ‘Rat Man’. Psychoanalytic Studies, 1, 145-157.

Billig, M. (1999). Whose terms? Whose ordinariness? Rhetoric and ideology in conversation analysis. Discourse and Society, 10, 543-558.

Billig, M. (2000). Freud's different version of forgetting 'Signorelli': rhetoric and repression. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 81, 483-498.

Billig, M. (2001). Humour and hatred: the racist jokes of the Ku Klux Klan. Discourse and Society, 12, 291-313.

Billig, M. (2001). Embarrassment and humour: limits of 'nice guy' theories of social life. Theory, Culture and Society, 18 (5), 23-43.

Billig, M. (2001). Arguing. In The New Handbook of Language and Social Psychology, ed. W.P. Robinson and H. Giles. Chichester: John Wiley (pp. 241-251).

Billig, M. (2001). Discursive approaches to studying conscious and unconscious thoughts. In From Subjects to Subjectivities: a handbook of: interpretive and participatory Methods, ed. D.L. Tolman and M. Brydon-Miller. New York: New York University Press (pp. 290-303).

Billig, M. (2002). Ideology, language and discursive psychology. In Ideology and Postmodernity, ed. S. Malesevic and I. Mackenzie. London: Pluto Press (pp. 134-156).

Billig, M. (2002). Henri Tajfel’s ‘Cognitive aspects of prejudice’ and the psychology of bigotry. British Journal of Social Psychology, 41, 171-188.

Billig, M. (2003). Critical Discourse Analysis and the rhetoric of critique. In Critical Discourse Analysis: theory and interdisciplinarity, ed. G. Weiss and R. Wodak. London: Palgrave Macmillan. (pp. 35-46).

Billig, M. (2003). Political rhetoric. In Handbook of Political Psychology, ed. D.O. Sears, L. Huddy and R. Jervis. Oxford: Oxford University Press (pp. 222-250).

Billig, M. and MacMillan, K. (2005). Metaphor, idiom and ideology: the search for ‘no smoking guns’ across time. Discourse and Society, 16, 459-480.

Billig, M.(2005). Violent racist humour. In S. Lockyer and M. Pickering (eds), Beyond a Joke: the limits of humour. London: Palgrave Macmillan (pp. 25-44).

Billig, M. (2005). Banal nationalism. In P. Spencer and H. Wollman (eds) Nations and nationalism: a reader. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (pp. 184-196).

Billig, M. (2006). A psychoanalytic discursive psychology: from consciousness to unconsciousness. Discourse Studies, 8, 17-24.

Billig, M. (2006). Lacan’s misuse of psychology: evidence, rhetoric and the mirror stage. Theory, Culture and Society, 23(4), 1-26.

Billig, M. (2006). Kritische Psychologie und die Rhetorik der Kritik. Psychologie & Gesellschaftskritik, 117, 7-30.

Billig, M. (2007). Politics as an appearance and reality show. In D. Wring, J. Green, R. Mortimore and S. Atkinson (eds) Political Communications: the General Election Campaign of 2005. London: Palgrave Macmillan (pp.215-229).

Billig, M. (2008). The language of critical discourse analysis: the case of nominalization. Discourse & Society, 19, 783-800.

Billig, M. (2008). Nominalizing and de-nominalizing: a reply. Discourse & Society, 19, 829-841.

Billig, M. (2008). Social representations and repression: examining the first formulations of Freud and Moscovici. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 38, 355-368.

Billig, M. (2009). Psychologie discursive, rhétorique et la question de l’agentivité . Semen, 27, 157-184.

Billig, M. (2009). Reflecting on a critical engagement with banal nationalism. Sociological Review, 57, 347-352.