The Handbook of Discourse Analysis

by Schiffrin, Deborah; Tannen, Deborah; Hamilton, Heidi E.

• ISBN13: 9780631205968
• ISBN10: 0631205969
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-06-27
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

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.

Author Biography

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

Deborah Tannen is a University Professor and Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University. Her books include Talking Voices (1989), Conversational Style (1984), You Just Don't Understand (1990), Gender and Discourse (1994), The Argument Culture (1999), and, most recently, I Only Say This Because I Love You (2001).Heidi E. Hamilton is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University. She is the 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).

Table of Contents

Introduction

Discourse Analysis and Linguistics

Intonation And Discourse: Current Views From Within

Cohesion And Texture

Discourse Markers: Language, Meaning And Context

Discourse And Semantics

Discourse And Relevance Theory

Discourse And Information Structure

Historical Discourse Analysis

Typology And Discourse

Register Variation: A Corpus Approach

The Linking Of Theory and Practice In Discourse Analysis

Nine Ways Of Looking At Apologies: The Necessity Of Interdisciplinary Theory And Method In Discourse Analysis

Interactional Sociolinguistics: A Personal Perspective

Discourse As An Interactional Achievement III: The Omnirelevance Of Action

Discourse And Interaction

The Linguistic Structure Of Discourse

The Variationist Approach Towards Discours Structural Effects And Socio-Interactional Dynamics

Computer-Assisted Text And Corpus Analysis: Lexical Cohesion And Communicative Competence

The Transcription Of Discourse

Discourse: Language, Context, and Interaction

Political, Social, And Institutional Domains

Critical Discourse Analysis

Discourse And Racism

Political Discourse

Discourse And The Media

Discourse Analysis In The Legal Context

The Discourse Of Medical Encounters

Language And Medicine

Discourse In Educational Settings

Institutional Narratives

Discourse And Intercultural Communication

Discourse And Gender

Discourse And Aging

Child Discourse

Computer-Mediated Discourse

Discourse And Narrative

Discourse And Conflict

Discourse Across Disciplines

The Analysis Of Discourse Flow

The Discursive Turn In Social Psychology

Discourse And Language Teaching

Discourse Analysis In Communication

Discourse And Sociology: Sociology And Discourse

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