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School of Media Communication & Culture

Alec McHoul

Until 2007, Alec McHoul was the Head of School for Media Communication & Culture. He is now an Emeritus Professor in the School.

Qualifications & memberships:
BA Hons, MA (Lancaster), CertEd (Liverpool), PhD (ANU).
Hobbies:
Philosophy, birdwatching, native plants.
Teaching areas:
PhD supervision, casual teaching as required.
Research areas:
Ethnomethodology, conversation analysis, theories of culture.
Book publications:

Telling How Texts Talk: Essays on Reading and Ethnomethodology (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1982): xi+163pp.

Wittgenstein On Certainty and the Problem of Rule in Social Science (Toronto: Toronto Semiotic Circle, 1986): 213pp.

Writing Pynchon: Strategies in Fictional Analysis (London: Macmillan, 1990); (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990): ix+239pp. Co–publication with David Wills.

A Foucault Primer: Discourse, Power and the Subject (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1998); (London: University College London Press, 1995); (New York: New York University Press, 1997, 1998); (Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 1998): xiii+140pp. Co–publication with Wendy Grace

Semiotic Investigations: Towards an Effective Semiotics (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press 1996): xxiii+248pp.

Popular Culture and Everyday Life (London: Sage, 1998): xii+224pp. Co-publication with Toby Miller.

Translation of Jean-Marie Floch's Visual Identities (London and New York: Continuum, 2000): x+179pp. Co-translation with Pierre Van Osselaer.

How to Analyse Talk in Institutional Settings: A Casebook of Methods (London and New York: Continuum, 2002). Co-edited with Mark Rapley.

Beyond Help: A Consumer’s Guide to Psychology. (Ross–on–Wye: PCCS Books, 2003): 251pp. Co–publication with Susan Hansen and Mark Rapley, with contributions by Hayley Miller and Toby Miller.
Web Site: The following site includes a complete list of publications:
http://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/~mchoul

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