The Handbook of Discourse Analysis

Copyright © 2005 by Blackwell Publishers Ltd

The Handbook of Discourse Analysis

Editor(s): Deborah Schiffrin, Deborah Tannen, Heidi E. Hamilton

Published Online: 14 JAN 2008

Print ISBN: 9780631205951

Online ISBN: 9780470753460

DOI: 10.1002/9780470753460

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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.

Table of contents

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      Frontmatter (pages i–xx)

    1. Introduction (pages 1–10)

  3. Part I: Discourse Analysis and Linguistics

    1. Chapter 1

      Intonation and Discourse: Current Views from Within (pages 11–34)

      Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen

    2. Chapter 2

      Cohesion and Texture (pages 35–53)

      J. R. Martin

    3. Chapter 3

      Discourse Markers: Language, Meaning, and Context (pages 54–75)

      Deborah Schiffrin

    4. Chapter 4

      Discourse and Semantics (pages 76–99)

      Neal R. Norrick

    5. Chapter 5

      Discourse and Relevance Theory (pages 100–118)

      Diane Blakemore

    6. Chapter 6

      Discourse and Information Structure (pages 119–137)

      Gregory Ward and Betty J. Birner

    7. Chapter 7

      Historical Discourse Analysis (pages 138–160)

      Laurel J. Brinton

    8. Chapter 8

      Typology and Discourse Analysis (pages 161–174)

      John Myhill

    9. Chapter 9

      Register Variation: A Corpus Approach (pages 175–196)

      Douglas Biber and Susan Conrad

  4. Part II: The Linking of Theory and Practice in Discourse Analysis

    1. Chapter 10

      Nine Ways of Looking at Apologies: The Necessity for Interdisciplinary Theory and Method in Discourse Analysis (pages 197–214)

      Robin Tolmach Lakoff

    2. Chapter 11

      Interactional Sociolinguistics: A Personal Perspective (pages 215–228)

      John J. Gumperz

    3. Chapter 12

      Discourse as an Interactional Achievement III: The Omnirelevance of Action (pages 229–249)

      Emanuel A. Schegloff

    4. Chapter 13

      Discourse and Interaction (pages 250–264)

      Monica Heller

    5. Chapter 14

      The Linguistic Structure of Discourse (pages 265–281)

      Livia Polanyi

    6. Chapter 15

      The Variationist Approach Toward Discourse Structural Effects and Socio-Interactional Dynamics (pages 282–303)

      Sylvie Dubois and David Sankoff

    7. Chapter 16

      Computer-Assisted Text and Corpus Analysis: Lexical Cohesion and Communicative Competence (pages 304–320)

      Michael Stubbs

    8. Chapter 17

      The Transcription of Discourse (pages 321–348)

      Jane A. Edwards

  5. Part III: Discourse: Language, Context, and Interaction - Political, Social, and Institutional Domains

    1. Chapter 18

      Critical Discourse Analysis (pages 349–371)

      Teun A. van Dijk

    2. Chapter 19

      Discourse and Racism (pages 372–397)

      Ruth Wodak and Martin Reisigl

    3. Chapter 20

      Political Discourse (pages 398–415)

      John Wilson

    4. Chapter 21

      Discourse and Media (pages 416–436)

      Colleen Cotter

    5. Chapter 22

      Discourse Analysis in the Legal Context (pages 437–452)

      Roger W. Shuy

    6. Chapter 23

      The Discourse of Medical Encounters (pages 453–469)

      Nancy Ainsworth-Vaughn

    7. Chapter 24

      Language and Medicine (pages 470–502)

      Suzanne Fleischman

    8. Chapter 25

      Discourse in Educational Settings (pages 503–517)

      Carolyn Temple Adger

    9. Chapter 26

      Narrative in Institutions (pages 518–535)

      Charlotte Linde

  6. Part III: Discourse: Language, Context, and Interaction - Culture, Community, and Genre

    1. Chapter 27

      Discourse and Intercultural Communication (pages 537–547)

      Ron Scollon and Suzanne Wong Scollon

    2. Chapter 28

      Discourse and Gender (pages 548–567)

      Shari Kendall and Deborah Tannen

    3. Chapter 29

      Discourse and Aging (pages 568–589)

      Heidi E. Hamilton

    4. Chapter 30

      Child Discourse (pages 590–611)

      Jenny Cook-Gumperz and Amy Kyratzis

    5. Chapter 31

      Computer-Mediated Discourse (pages 612–634)

      Susan C. Herring

    6. Chapter 32

      Discourse Analysis and Narrative (pages 635–649)

      Barbara Johnstone

    7. Chapter 33

      Discourse and Conflict (pages 650–670)

      Christina Kakavá

  7. Part IV: Discourse Across Disciplines

    1. Chapter 34

      The Analysis of Discourse Flow (pages 671–687)

      Wallace Chafe

    2. Chapter 35

      The Discursive Turn in Social Psychology (pages 688–706)

      Rom Harré

    3. Chapter 36

      Discourse Analysis and Language Teaching (pages 707–724)

      Elite Olshtain and Marianne Celce-Murcia

    4. Chapter 37

      Discourse Analysis in Communication (pages 725–749)

      Karen Tracy

    5. Chapter 38

      Discourse and Sociology: Sociology and Discourse (pages 750–771)

      Allen Grimshaw

    6. Chapter 39

      Imagination in Discourse (pages 772–786)

      Herbert H. Clark and Mija M. Van Der Wege

    7. Chapter 40

      Literary Pragmatics (pages 787–797)

      Jacob L. Mey

    8. Chapter 41

      Computational Perspectives on Discourse and Dialog (pages 798–816)

      Bonnie Lynn Webber

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      Index (pages 817–851)

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