The Handbook of Discourse Analysis - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0631205969 ISBN 13: 9780631205968

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2003

Synopsis

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.

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• 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.

About this title

Book Description:

The articles collected in The Handbook of Discourse Analysis comprise a foundational paradigm for discourse that is broad enough to support a variety of approaches, methods, and even definitions regarding discourse.The volume begins with an overview of discourse analysis, then moves through an examination of theoretical and methodological issues in the field. The book also presents a wide range of empirical studies of discourse as social and linguistic practice. Since many of the articles are interdisciplinary, the book concludes with an exploration of how different disciplines have become interested in discourse.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.

About the Author:

Deborah Schiffrin is Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University. Her major publications include Discourse Markers (1987), Approaches to Discourse (Blackwell 1994), and Language, Text and Interaction (forthcoming).

Deborah Tannen is a University Professor and Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University. Her books include Talking Voices (1989), Conversational Style (1984), You Just Don't Understand (1990), Gender and Discourse (1994), The Argument Culture (1999), and, most recently, I Only Say This Because I Love You (2001).Heidi E. Hamilton is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University. She is the author of Conversations with an Alzheimer’s Patient (1994), and Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines (forthcoming), and editor of Language and Communication in Old Age (1999).

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0631205969
• ISBN 13: 9780631205968
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 872
• Editor: Schiffrin Deborah, Tannen Deborah, Hamilton Heidi E.