Featuring internationally renowned academics, this volume provides
a snapshot of the field of applied linguistics, and illustrates how
linguistics is engaging with the idea of 'context'. The book treats
discourse as language in the contexts of its use in and above the
level of the sentence and as systems of knowledge and beliefs. In
using the term context(s), the book understands this as different
situations in which discourse is produced and, on the other, how
analysts construe context in their work. The volume is thus
concerned with language in its context of use (little d discourse),
but at the same time, more specifically, in individual chapters,
with particular discourses as they are manifested in particular
contexts (big D discourses). Well known discourse analysts
contribute chapters focussing on different contexts with which they
are familiar, viz. business, education, ethnicity and race, gender
and sexuality, history, intercultural contexts, lingua franca
contexts, media, place, politics, race, and the virtual world. It
brings together researchers from different approaches, but all with
a commitment to the study of language in context. The contributors
themselves represent different approaches to discourse analysis:
conversation analysis, corpus linguistics, critical discourse
analysis, ethnographic discourse analysis, mediated discourse
analysis, multimodal discourse analysis, systemic functional
linguistics. Readers are invited to compare and contrast these
different contexts and approaches.
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