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Record Nr.

UNINA9910958619203321

Titolo

The handbook of discourse analysis / / edited by Deborah Schiffrin, Deborah Tannen, and Heidi E. Hamilton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, Mass., : Blackwell Publishers, 2001

ISBN

9786611322502

9780470751985

0470751983

9780470753460

0470753463

9781281322500

1281322504

9781780341804

1780341806

9781405166188

1405166185

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (874 pages)

Collana

Blackwell handbooks in linguistics

Altri autori (Persone)

SchiffrinDeborah

TannenDeborah

HamiltonHeidi Ehernberger

Soggetti

Discourse analysis

Linguistics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- The Handbook of Discourse Analysis -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- I Discourse Analysis and Linguistics -- 1 Intonation and Discourse: Current Views from Within -- 2 Cohesion and Texture -- 3 Discourse Markers: Language, Meaning, and Context -- 4 Discourse and Semantics -- 5 Discourse and Relevance Theory -- 6 Discourse and Information Structure -- 7 Historical Discourse Analysis -- 8 Typology and Discourse Analysis -- 9 Register Variation: A Corpus Approach -- II The Linking of Theory and Practice in Discourse Analysis -- 10 Nine Ways of Looking at Apologies: The



Necessity for Interdisciplinary Theory and Method in Discourse Analysis -- 11 Interactional Sociolinguistics: A Personal Perspective -- 12 Discourse as an Interactional Achievement III: The Omnirelevance of Action -- 13 Discourse and Interaction -- 14 The Linguistic Structure of Discourse -- 15 The Variationist Approach toward Discourse Structural Effects and Socio-interactional Dynamics -- 16 Computer-assisted Text and Corpus Analysis: Lexical Cohesion and Communicative Competence -- 17 The Transcription of Discourse -- III Discourse: Language, Context, and Interaction -- A Political, Social, and Institutional Domains -- 18 Critical Discourse Analysis -- 19 Discourse and Racism -- 20 Political Discourse -- 21 Discourse and Media -- 22 Discourse Analysis in the Legal Context -- 23 The Discourse of Medical Encounters -- 24 Language and Medicine -- 25 Discourse in Educational Settings -- 26 Narrative in Institutions -- B Culture, Community, and Genre -- 27 Discourse and Intercultural Communication -- 28 Discourse and Gender -- 29 Discourse and Aging -- 30 Child Discourse -- 31 Computer-mediated Discourse -- 32 Discourse Analysis and Narrative -- 33 Discourse and Conflict -- IV Discourse across Disciplines -- 34 The Analysis of Discourse Flow.

35 The Discursive Turn in Social Psychology -- 36 Discourse Analysis and Language Teaching -- 37 Discourse Analysis in Communication -- 38 Discourse and Sociology: Sociology and Discourse -- 39 Imagination in Discourse -- 40 Literary Pragmatics -- 41 Computational Perspectives on Discourse and Dialog -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

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.