The book explores ways in which the formal methods of linguistics
can cast light on the structure of verbal interaction, and in
particular considers how successive utterances cohere together in
continuous spoken discourse. Beginning with an earlier model of
discourse analysis elaborated to deal with teacher-pupil
interaction in the classroom, it then reviews attempts to extend
this model to a variety of discourses such as committee talk,
doctor-patient interviews, broadcast discussions and the monologue
of lectures. The extension of the original model to other
situations has prompted a number of innovations and additional
insights which are expounded in a series of contributions linked by
complimentary themes. There are contributions on the role of
intonation and of kinetics in discourse analysis; explorations of
the problems of the analytic category 'sentence' and of the
problems raised by casual conversation; and there is extended
discussion of the structural properties underlying exchanges of
utterances. The book moves easily between data and theory, forming
a unified whole. It sums up a continuing and lively debate within a
common tradition of discourse analysis and may well serve as a
programmatic statement for future work in the field.
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