The Handbook of Discourse Analysis makes significant contributions to current research and serves as a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the central issues in contemporary discourse analysis. Features comprehensive coverage of contemporary discourse analysis. Offers an overview of how different disciplines approach the analysis of discourse. Provides analysis of a wide range of data, including political speeches, everyday conversation, and literary texts. Includes a varied range of theoretical models, such as relevance theory and systemic-functional linguistics; and methodology, including interpretive, statistical, and formal methodsFeatures comprehensive coverage of contemporary discourse analysis.

Deborah Schiffrin is Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University. Major publications include Discourse Markers (1987), Approaches to Discourse (Blackwell 1994), and Language, Text and Interaction (forthcoming).

Deborah Tannen is University Professor and Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics at Georgetown University. Her books include Gender & Discourse (1994), Talking Voices (1989), Conversational Style (1984), The Argument Culture (1999) and You Just Don't Understand (1990). Her newest book is I Only Say This Because I Love You (2001).

Heidi Hamilton is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University.She is author of Conversations with an Alzheimer's Patient (1994), and Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines (forthcoming), and editor of Language and Communication in Old Age (1999).

Contributors

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Introduction

1

(10)

I Discourse Analysis and Linguistics

11

(186)

Intonation and Discourse: Current Views from Within

13

(22)

Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen

Cohesion and Texture

35

(19)

J. R. Martin

Discourse Markers: Language, Meaning, and Context

54

(22)

Deborah Schiffrin

Discourse and Semantics

76

(24)

Neal R. Norrick

Discourse and Relevance Theory

100

(19)

Diane Blakemore

Discourse and Information Structure

119

(19)

Gregory Ward

Betty J. Birner

Historical Discourse Analysis

138

(23)

Laurel J. Brinton

Typology and Discourse Analysis

161

(14)

John Myhill

Register Variation: A Corpus Approach

175

(22)

Douglas Biber

Susan Conrad

II The Linking of Theory and Practice in Discourse Analysis

197

(152)

Nine Ways of Looking at Apologies: The Necessity for Interdisciplinary Theory and Method in Discourse Analysis

199

(16)

Robin Tolmach Lakoff

Interactional Sociolinguistics: A Personal Perspective

215

(14)

John J. Gumperz

Discourse as an Interactional Achievement III: The Omnirelevance of Action

229

(21)

Emanuel A. Schegloff

Discourse and Interaction

250

(15)

Monica Heller

The Linguistic Structure of Discourse

265

(17)

Livia Polanyi

The Variationist Approach toward Discourse Structural Effects and Socio-interactional Dynamics

282

(22)

Sylvie Dubois

David Sankoff

Computer-assisted Text and Corpus Analysis: Lexical Cohesion and Communicative Competence

304

(17)

Michael Stubbs

The Transcription of Discourse

321

(28)

Jane A. Edwards

III Discourse: Language, Context, and Interaction

349

(2)

A Political, Social, and Institutional Domains

351

(186)

Critical Discourse Analysis

352

(20)

Teun A. van Dijk

Discourse and Racism

372

(26)

Ruth Wodak

Martin Reisigl

Political Discourse

398

(18)

John Wilson

Discourse and Media

416

(21)

Colleen Cotter

Discourse Analysis in the Legal Context

437

(16)

Roger W. Shuy

The Discourse of Medical Encounters

453

(17)

Nancy Ainsworth-Vaughn

Language and Medicine

470

(33)

Suzanne Eleischman

Discourse in Educational Settings

503

(15)

Carolyn Temple Adger

Narrative in Institutions

518

(19)

Charlotte Linde

B Culture, Community, and Genre

537

(134)

Discourse and Intercultural Communication

538

(10)

Ron Scollon

Suzanne Wong Scollon

Discourse and Gender

548

(20)

Shari Kendall

Deborah Tannen

Discourse and Aging

568

(22)

Heidi E. Hamilton

Child Discourse

590

(22)

Jenny Cook-Gumperz

Amy Kyratzis

Computer-mediated Discourse

612

(23)

Susan C. Herring

Discourse Analysis and Narrative

635

(15)

Barbara Johnstone

Discourse and Conflict

650

(21)

Christina Kakava

IV Discourse across Disciplines

671

(146)

The Analysis of Discourse Flow

673

(15)

Wallace Chafe

The Discursive Turn in Social Psychology

688

(19)

Rom Harre

Discourse Analysis and Language Teaching

707

(18)

Elite Olshtain

Marianne Celce-Murcia

Discourse Analysis in Communication

725

(25)

Karen Tracy

Discourse and Sociology: Sociology and Discourse

750

(22)

Allen Grimshaw

Imagination in Discourse

772

(15)

Herbert H. Clark

Mija M. Van Der Wege

Literary Pragmatics

787

(11)

Jacob L. Mey

Computational Perspectives on Discourse and Dialog

798

(19)

Bonnie Lynn Webber

Index

817

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