The Discourse Reader (Paperback, 3rd Edition)

In this bestselling Reader, Jaworski and Coupland have collected in one volume the most important and influential articles on discourse analysis. Designed as a structured sourcebook and divided into clear sections, The Discourse Reader covers the foundations of modern discourse analysis and represents all of its contemporary methods and traditions.

The third edition:

Has been revised and updated throughout to ensure a selection of up to date and accessible readings

Includes new readings by Jan Blommaert, Norman Fairclough, James Paul Gee, Barbara Johnstone, Ron Scollon and Don Zimmerman, among others.

Features papers by leading researchers commissioned especially for the new edition.

The general introduction serves as an essential introduction to the field of discourse analysis, while the section introductions provide a useful overview and further insight into the readings.

The third edition of The Discourse Reader is a key resource for all students of discourse analysis in a wide range of disciplines from linguistics to communication studies, anthropology and psychology.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Perspectives on Discourse Analysis

Part 1: Discourse: Meaning, Function and Context

Editors’ Introduction

1 Roman Jakobson

Linguistics and Poetics

2 J. L. Austin

How to Do Things with Words

3 H. P. Grice

Logic and Conversation

4 M. M. Bakhtin

The Problem of Speech Genres

5 Norman Fairclough

Social Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Text Analysis

6 Ron Scollon

Modes and modality: The multimodal shaping of reality in public discourse.

　

Part 2: Methods and Resources for Analysing Discourse

Editors’ Introduction

7 Deborah Cameron, Elizabeth Fraser, Penelope Harvey, Ben Rampton and Kay Richardson

Ethics, Advocacy and Empowerment

8 James Paul Gee

Tools of Inquiry and Discourses

9 Wolfram Bublitz

Cohesion and Coherence

10 Jenny Thomas

Activity Types versus Speech Events

11 David Machin and Theo van Leeuwen

Genre Analysis in Media Discourse

　

Part 3: Sequence and Structure

Editors’ Introduction

12 William Labov

The Transformation of Experience in Narrative

13 Derek Edwards

Narrative Analysis

14 Harvey Sacks

On the Analyzability of Stories by Children

15 Emanuel A. Schegloff and Harvey Sacks

Opening up Closings

16 Geoffrey Raymond and Jack Sidnell

Conversation Analysis

17 Deborah Schiffrin

Oh as a Marker of Information Management

　

Part 4: Negotiating Social Relationships

Editors’ Introduction

18 Bronislaw Malinowski

On Phatic Communion

19 Erving Goffman

On Face-work

20 Penelope Brown and Stephen C. Levinson

Politeness: Some Universals in Language Usage

21 Deborah Tannen and Cynthia Wallat

Interactive Frames and Knowledge Schemas in Interaction: Examples from a Medical Examination/Interview

　

Part 5: Identity and Subjectivity

Editors’ Introduction

22 Deborah Cameron

Performing Gender Identity: Young Men’s Talk and the Construction of Heterosexual Masculinity

23 Don H. Zimmerman

Identity, Context and Interaction

24 Barbara Johnstone

Pittsburghese Shirts: Commodification and Enregisterment of an Urban Dialect

25 Gerlinde Mautner

Signs of the Times: A Discourse Perspective on Public Signage, Urban Space and the Law

Part 6: Power, Ideology and Control

Editors’ Introduction

26 Pierre Bourdieu

Language and Symbolic Power

27 Teun A van Dijk

Discourse and the Denial of Racism

28 Ian Hutchby

Power in Discourse: The Case of Arguments on a British Talk Radio Show

29 Hugh Mehan

Oracular Reasoning in a Psychiatric Exam

30 Paul Baker and Tony McEnery

‘FIND THE DOCTORS OF DEATH’: The UK Press and the Issue of Foreign Doctors Working in the NHS, a Corpus-Based Approach

31 Crispin Thurlow

Disciplining Youth: Language Ideologies and New Technologies

32 Jan Blommaert

Orders of Indexicality and Polycentricity

　

　

General

Imprint:	Taylor & Francis
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	May 2014
First published:	2014
Authors:	Nikolas Coupland • Adam Jaworski
Editors:	Adam Jaworski • Nikolas Coupland
Dimensions:	246 x 174 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	534
Edition:	3rd Edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-62949-2
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literary & linguistic reference works > General Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Semantics (meaning) > Discourse analysis Promotions
LSN:	0-415-62949-7
Barcode:	9780415629492

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