Discourse analysis : putting our worlds into words

"This introductory textbook presents a variety of approaches and perspectives that can be employed to analyze any sample of discourse. The perspectives come from multiple disciplines, including linguistics, sociolinguistics, and linguistic anthropology, all of which shed light on meaning and th...

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Main Authors Strauss, Susan G. (Author), Feiz, Parastou (Author)
Format Book
LanguageEnglish
Published New York ; Abingdon : Routledge, 2014
Edition1st pub.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Discourse, words, and the world
  • The building blocks of language: the stuff that discourse is made of
  • Genre, Register, Modality, and Participation Framework
  • Reference, Deixis, and Stance
  • Information structure, cohesion, and intonation units
  • Conversation
  • Pragmatics: Implicature, Speech Act Theory, and Politeness
  • Indexicality, Stance, Identity, and Agency
  • Critical Discourse Analysis