Methods of approaching the study of discourse have developed rapidly in the last ten years, influenced by a growing interdisciplinary spirit among linguistics and anthropology, sociology, cognitive and cultural psychology and cultural studies, as well as among established sub-fields within linguistics itself. Among the more recent developments are an increasing ‘critical’ turn in discourse analysis, a growing interest in historical, ethnographic and corpus-based approaches to discourse, more concern with the social contexts in which discourse occurs, the social actions that it is used to take and the identities that are constructed through it, as well as a revaluation of what counts as ‘discourse’ to include multi-modal texts and interaction. Advances in Discourse Studies brings together contributions from leading scholars in the field, investigating the historical and theoretical relationships between new advances in discourse studies and pointing towards new directions for the future of the discipline. Featuring discussion questions, classroom projects and recommended readings at the end of each section, as well as case studies illustrating each approach discussed, this is an invaluable resource for students of interdisciplinary discourse analysis.
Author(s): Vijay Bhatia, John Flowerdew, Rodney H. Jones
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 273
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Contributors......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 11
1 Approaches to discourse analysis......Page 12
Part I Conversation analysis......Page 30
2 Conversation analysis: Overview and new directions......Page 33
3 Being out of order: Overlapping talk as evidence of trouble in airline pilots’ work......Page 47
Suggestions for further work......Page 62
Part II Ethnographic-based discourse analysis......Page 64
4 Ethnographic-based discourse analysis: Uses, issues and prospects......Page 67
5 Using ethnography in the analysis of pedagogical practice: Perspectives from activity theory......Page 78
Suggestions for further work......Page 92
Part III Corpus-based discourse analysis......Page 94
6 Corpora and discourse analysis: New ways of doing old things......Page 97
7 Corpus-based analyses of discourse: Dimensions of variation in conversation......Page 111
8 Corpora and context in professional writing......Page 126
Suggestions for further work......Page 139
Part IV Multimodal discourse analysis......Page 140
9 Some thoughts on personal identity construction: A multimodal perspective......Page 143
10 Multimodal discourse analysis: The case of ‘ability’ in UK secondary school English......Page 160
Suggestions for further work......Page 172
Part V Genre analysis......Page 174
11 Towards critical genre analysis......Page 177
12 Genre evolution?: The case for a diachronic perspective......Page 189
Suggestions for further work......Page 203
Part VI Critical discourse analysis......Page 204
13 Critical discourse analysis and strategies of resistance......Page 206
14 Mediation, text and action......Page 222
Suggestions for further work......Page 239
Part VII Mediated discourse analysis......Page 240
15 Discourse itineraries: Nine processes of resemiotization......Page 244
16 Good sex and bad karma: Discourse and the historical body......Page 256
Suggestions for further work......Page 269
Index......Page 270
