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Discourse Studies

Five Volume Set
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September 2007 | 2 128 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd

In the mid-1960s the humanities and the social sciences witnessed a paradigm shift with the birth of several new but mutually related 'interdisciplines', including semiotics, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, pragmatics as well as the study of discourse. This became the 'linguistic turn'.

The articles collected in the volumes of this book are prominent contributions to the latter field of study, traditionally called 'discourse analysis', but more appropriately labeled 'discourse studies'.

Assembled by Teun van Dijk, a leading scholar in discourse studies, the collection covers all the major fields of discourse studies, including grammar, stylistics, conversation analysis, narrative analysis, argumentation, psychology of comprehension, ethnography of speaking, and media. With over 80 articles, it brings together classic texts and work from the top scholars in the field to reflect all the significant debates in the field.


C Antaki
Interviewing Persons with a Learning Disability
How Setting Lower Standards May Inflate Well-Being Scores

 
J B Bavelas, L Coates and T Johnson
Listeners as Co-Narrators
R De Beaugrande
Discourse Studies and the Ideology of 'Liberalism'
A Bell
The Discourse Structure of News Stories
N Besnier
Crossing Genders, Mixing Languages
The Linguistic Construction of Transgenderism in Tonga

 
V Bhatia
The Power and Politics of Genre
D Biber and E Finegan
Styles of Stance in English
Lexical and Grammatical Marking of Evidentiality and Affect

 
M Billig
The Dialogic Unconscious
Psychoanalysis, Discursive Psychology and the Nature of Repression

 
J Blommaert
Investigating Narrative Inequality
African Asylum Seekers' Stories in Belgium

 
S Blum-Kulka
The Dynamics of Political Interviews
A Bolivar
Dialogue and Confrontation in Venezuelan Political Interaction
C R Caldas-Coulthard
Man in the News
The Misrepresentation of Women Speaking in News as Narrative Discourse

 
H Calsamiglia and C L Ferrero
Role and Position of Scientific Voices Speech in the Media
D Cameron
Relativity and Its Discontents
Language, Gender and Pragmatics

 
W Chafe
The Analysis of Discourse Flow
P Chilton
Missing Links in Mainstream CDA
A Cicourel
The Interpretation of Communicative Contexts
Examples from Medical Encounters

 
S E Clayman
Answers and Evasions
M Coulthard
Author Identification, Idiolect and Linguistic Uniqueness
N Coupland and J Coupland
Bodies, Beaches and Burn-Times
'Environmentalism' and Its Discursive Competitors

 
P Drew
Pro-Faced Receipts of Teases
A Duranti
Universal and Culture-Specific Properties of Greetings
D Edwards
Moaning, Whinging and Laughing
The Subjective Side of Complaints

 
S Ehrlich
Trial Discourse and Judicial Decision-Making
Constraining the Boundaries of Gendered Identities

 
S Ervin-Tripp
Is Sybil There? The Structure of Some American English Directives
N Fairclough
Discourse, Social Theory and Social Research
The Discourse of Welfare Reform

 
J Flowerdew
The Discourse of Colonial Withdrawal
A Case Study in the Creation of Mythic Discourse

 
B A Fox, M Hayashi and R Jasperson
Resources and Repair
A Cross-Linguistic Study of Syntax and Repair

 
B Fraser
Pragmatic Markers
T Giv[ac]on
Coherence in Text versus Coherence in Mind
C Goodwin
Action and Embodiment within Situated Human Interaction
A C Graesser, M Singer and T Trabasso
Constructing Inferences during Narrative Text Comprehension
P Graham
Space
Irrealis Objects in Technology Policy and Their Role in a New Political Economy

 
B-L Gunnarsson
Medical Discourse
Sociohistorical Construction

 
M H Harness Goodwin
Tactical Uses of Stories
Participation Frameworks within Girls' and Boys' Disputes

 
J Heritage and G Raymond
The Terms of Agreement
Indexing Epistemic Authority and Subordination in Talk-in-Interaction

 
J Holmes
Politeness, Power and Provocation
How Humour Functions in the Workplace

 
K Hyland
Stance and Engagement
A Model of Interaction in Academic Discourse

 
J Irvine
When Talk Isn't Cheap
Language and Political Economy

 
S J[um]ager
Political Discourse
The Language of Right and Left in Germany

 
A Jaworski et al
The Uses and Representations of Local Languages in Tourist Destinations
A View from British TV Holiday Programmes

 
G Jefferson
Notes on 'Latency' in Overlap Onset
B Johnstone
Sociolinguistic Resources, Individual Identities and Public Speech Styles of Texas Women
W Kintsch
The Role of Knowledge in Discourse Comprehension
A Construction-Integration Model

 
C Kitzinger
Heteronormativity in Action
Reproducing the Heterosexual Nuclear Family in After-Hours Medical Calls

 
H Kotthoff
Oral Genres of Humor
G Kress
Against Arbitrariness
The Social Production of the Sign as a Foundational Issue in Critical Discourse Analysis

 
William Labov and Joshua Waletzky
Narrative Analysis
Oral Versions of Personal Experience

 
M Lazar
Gender, Discourse and Semiotics
The Politics of Parenthood Representations

 
P Linell and M Bredmar
Reconstructing Topical Sensitivity
Aspects of Face-Work in Talks between Midwives and Expectant Mothers

 
A Luke
The Body Literate
Discourse and Inscription in Early Literacy Training

 
R K S Macaulay
You Know, It Depends
D Maingueneau
Analyzing Self-Constituting Discourses
J R Martin
Grace
The Logogenesis of Freedom

 
Rojo L Mart[ac]in
Division and Rejection
From the Personification of the Gulf Conflict to the Demonization of Saddam Hussein

 
D W Maynard
The News Delivery Sequence
Bad News and Good News in Conversational Interaction

 
L Mondada
Temporalit[ac]e, S[ac]equentialit[ac]e et Multimodalit[ac]e au Fondement de l'Organisation de l'Interaction
Le Pointage comme Pratique de Prise du Tour

 
D Mumby
The Political Function of Narrative in Organizations
E Ochs
Talking to Children in Western Samoa
B H Partee
Nominal and Temporal Anaphora
S Philips
The Organization of Ideological Diversity in Discourse
Modern and Neotraditional Visions of the Tongan State

 
M Plantin
Argumentation Studies and Discourse Analysis
The French Situation and Global Perspectives

 
A Pomerantz
Extreme Case Formulations
A Way of Legitimizing Claims

 
J Potter
Discursive Social Psychology
From Attitudes to Evaluative Practices

 
U Quasthoff
Were You Ever in a Situation Where You Were in Serious Danger of Being Killed? Narrator-Listener Interaction in Labov and Waletzky's Narratives
E A Schegloff
Confirming Allusions
Toward an Empirical Account of Action

 
D Schiffrin
Narrative as Self-Portrait
Sociolinguistic Constructions of Identity

 
R Scollon
The Discourses of Food in the World System
Toward a Nexus Analysis of a World Problem

 
J Sherzer
A Discourse-Centered Approach to Language and Culture
Shi-Xu
Linguistics as Metaphor
Analyzing the Discursive Ontology of the Object of Linguistic Inquiry

 
J Swales and H Najjar
The Writing of Research Article Introductions
D Tannen
The Relativity of Linguistic Strategies
Rethinking Power and Solidarity in Gender and Dominance

 
P Ten Have
Talk and Institution
A Reconsideration of the 'Asymmetry' of Doctor-Patient Interaction

 
J Thornborrow
Principal, Plausibility and the Historic Present
The Construction of Conflicting Accounts in Public Participation TV

 
S A Thompson and E Couper-Kuhlen
The Clause as a Locus of Grammar and Interaction
R Tolmach Lakoff
The O J Simpson Case as an Exercise in Narrative Analysis
K Tracy and J Naughton
The Identity Work of Questioning in Intellectual Discussion
T A Van Dijk
Discourse and the Denial of Racism
F H Van Eemeren and P Houtlosser
Strategic Maneuvering
Maintaining a Delicate Balance

 
T Van Leeuwen
The Representation of Social Actor
J Verschueren
Predicaments of Criticism
M Wetherell
Positioning and Interpretative Repertoires
Conversation Analysis and Post-Structuralism in Dialogue

 
U Windisch
Daily Political Communication and Argumentation in Direct Democracy
Advocates and Opponents of Nuclear Energy

 
R Wodak
Turning the Tables
Antisemitic Discourse in Post-War Austria