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The discourse reader

Author: Adam Jaworski; Nikolas Coupland
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : 2nd edView all editions and formats
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Collects important articles on discourse analysis. This book covers the foundations of discourse analysis and represents its contemporary methods and traditions. It includes 'discussion points' to  Read more...

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Genre/Form: Aufsatzsammlung
Case studies
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Adam Jaworski; Nikolas Coupland
ISBN: 9780415346313 0415346312 0415346320 9780415346320 9780203597071 0203597079
OCLC Number: 61756822
Notes: Previous ed.: 1999.
Description: xvi, 560 p. : ill., ; 25 cm.
Contents: Linguistics and poetics / Roman Jakobson --
How to do things with words / J. L. Austin --
Logic and conversation / H. P. Grice --
Sociocultural knowledge in conversational inference / John J. Gumperz --
Talk and social structure / Emanuel A. Schegloff --
The problem of speech genres / M.M. Bakhtin --
Myth today / Roland Barthes --
Power/knowledge: the politics of social science / Deborah Cameron ... [et al.] --
Global capitalism and critical awareness of language / Norman Fairclough --
Jefferson's transcript notation / J. Maxwell Atkinson and John Heritage --
Transcription as theory / Elinor Ochs --
Sound in perspective / Theo Van Leeuwen --
The semiotic construction of a wine label / David Graddol --
The transformation of experience in narrative / William Labov --
Narrative analysis / Derek Edwards --
'The baby cried. The mommy picked it up' / Harvey Sacks --
Preference in conversation: agreeing and disagreeing with assessments / Anita Pomerantz --
Opening up closings / Emanuel A. Schegloff and Harvey Sacks --
Oh as a marker of information management / Deborah Schiffrin --
On phatic communion / Bronislaw Malinowski --
On face-work: an analysis of ritual elements in social interaction / Erving Goffman --
Politeness: some universals in language usage / Penelope Brown and Stephen C. Levinson --
Women, men and politeness: agreeable and disagreeable responses / Janet Holmes --
Interactive frames and knowledge schemas in interaction: examples from a medical examination/interview / Deborah Tannen and Cynthia Wallat --
Relational frames in weather talk / Nikolas Coupland and Virpi Ylänne --
Visual interaction / Gunther Kress and Theo Van Leeuwen --
The whites of their eyes / Stuart Hall --
Narrative embodiments: enclaves of the self in the realm of medicine / Katharine Young --
Performing gender identity: young men's talk and the construction of heterosexual masculinity / Deborah Cameron --
New York Jewish conversational style / Deborah Tannen --
Language and symbolic power / Pierre Bourdieu --
The incitement to discourse / Michel Foucault --
Burning acts, injurious speech / Judith Butler --
Discourse and the denial of racism / Teun A. Van Dijk --
Power in discourse: the case of arguments on a British talk radio show / Ian Hutchby --
Oracular reasoning in a psychiatric exam: the resolution of conflict in language / Hugh Mehan.
Responsibility: edited by Adam Jaworski and Nikolas Coupland.

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?The Discourse Reader, Second Edition, is now the definitive source of readings on discourse analysis. It is the best balanced and integrated collection available, ranging from papers engaged with

'The Discourse Reader provides a unique and visionary collection of readings that define modern discourse studies as a field of diversity, complexity and versatility. It demonstrates the methodological and theoretical pluralism that characterizes the field, thus avoiding the trap of simplification, and it keeps its eyes open to innovative and new work. There is no such thing as a "classic" in discourse analysis, it is always work-in-progress. Precisely this insight makes this collection so valuable.' - Jan Blommaert, Institute of Education, University of London, UK Read more...

 
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