Originally published as The Continuum Companion to Discourse Analysis, this book is designed to be the essential one-volume resource for advanced students and academics.
This companion offers a comprehensive and accessible reference resource to research in contemporary discourse studies. In 21 chapters written by leading figures in the field, the volume provides readers with an authoritative overview of key terms, methods and current research topics and directions. It offers both a survey of current research and gives more practical guidance for advanced study in the area.
The volume covers all the most important issues, concepts, movements and approaches in the field and features a glossary of key terms in the area of discourse analysis. It is the complete resource for postgraduate students and researchers working within discourse studies, applied linguistics, Tesol and the social sciences.
Author(s): Ken Hyland (Editor), Brian Paltridge (Editor)
Series: Bloomsbury Companions
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Year: 2013
Language: English
Pages: 393
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Series
Title
Copyright
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I Methods of Analysis in Discourse Research
1 Data Collection and Transcription in Discourse Analysis
Data Collection as Mediated Action
Five Processes of Entextualization
Data in the Audio Age
Video Killed the Discourse Analyst?
Data Collection and Transcription in the Digital Age
Conclusion
Key Readings
2 Conversation Analysis
Introduction: Origins and Key Features
Data Analysis: The ‘Building Blocks’ of Social Life
The Turn-taking System
Collaborative Completion
Summary, Conclusion and Future Prospects
Transcription Key
Note
Key Readings
3 Critical Discourse Analysis
Introduction
Discourse, Power, Ideology and Critique
Current Approaches and Developments in CDA
Sample Study: Inclusion and Exclusion – The Austrian Case
Summary
Notes
Key Readings
4 Genre Analysis
Current Theory and Research in Genre Analysis
Persuasion in the High-stakes World of Grant Funding: A Sample Genre Analysis
Future Directions of Genre Analysis
Note
Key Readings
5 Narrative Analysis
Introduction
DA Approaches to Narrative
CA Approaches to Narrative
LE Approaches to Narrative
Current Issues and Approaches in Narrative Analysis
Case One: Narrative, Interaction and Identity in a Friendship Group
Case Two: Stance, Positioning and Alignment in Narratives of Professional Experience
Conclusion and Implications
Transcription Key
Key Readings
6 Ethnography and Discourse Analysis
Locating Ethnography
Locating Discourse Analysis
Discourse Analysis and Ethnography: Complementary or in Opposition?
Three Approaches to Discourse Analysis and Ethnography
Discourse Analysis in Critical Ethnography: The Tradewinds Study
Conclusion
Transcription Key
Notes
Key Readings
7 Systemic Functional Linguistics
Synthesis of Current Thinking and Research
Sample Study
New Directions
Notes
Key Readings
8 Multimodal Discourse Analysis
Introduction
Approaches to MDA
Theoretical and Analytical Issues in MDA
Sample MDA Text Analysis
New Directions in MDA
Notes
Key Readings
9 Corpus Approaches to the Study of Discourse
Introduction
Researching Language in Use through Corpus Analysis
A Sample Study: Language in Use
Investigating Language Structure beyond the Sentence and Future Directions for Corpus-based Discourse Analysis
Note
Key Readings
Part II Research Areas and New Directions in Discourse Research
10 Spoken Discourse
Types of Spoken Discourse
Spoken Discourse Features
Function of Features
Social Variables
Sample Study
Conclusion
Transcription Key
Key Readings
11 Academic Discourse
What Is Academic Discourse?
Why Is Academic Discourse Important?
How Is Academic Discourse Studied?
What Do We Know about Academic Discourse?
A Sample Study: Citations
Conclusion
Key Readings
12 Discourse and the Workplace
Introduction
Current Research on Spoken Workplace Discourse
A Sample Study
New Directions in Workplace Discourse Research
Transcription Key
Notes
Key Readings
13 Discourse and Gender
Introduction
The Turn to Discourse
Discourse-based Approaches in Gender and Language Research
A Sample Study: Cougars
Future Directions
Notes
Key Readings
14 Discourse and the News
Introduction
Defining News and News Discourse
Critical Approaches to the Discourse of Newspapers: Ideologies at Work
Discourse and Power: The Broadcast News Interview
Beyond Considerations of Power and Ideology in News Discourse?
Note
Key Readings
15 Discourse and Computer-mediated Communication
Introduction
The Online Context
The New Literacy Studies
The Fabric of the Text: Multimodality and Semiotic Resources
Conclusions and Future Directions
Notes
Key Readings
16 Forensic Discourse Analysis: A Work in Progress
Origins of Forensic Discourse Analysis
The Focus of Forensic Discourse Analysis
The Location of Language within Sociolinguistic Interaction
Observations on the Structuring of Forensic Discourse
The Construction of Admission
Textual Provenance and Mode
Western Australian Royal Commission into Police Corruption
Contemporary Interrogation Methods
Consensus in Court
Summary
Notes
Key Readings
17 Discourse and Identity
Introduction
Defining ‘Minority’ Identity
A Sample Study
Key Readings
18 Discourse and Race
Introduction
Discursive Construction of Race: Production of Self and Other
Whiteness Studies and its Critiques
Elite Discourse and Racism
Everyday Discourse and the New Racism
Positioning Theory and Storyline Analysis of Racist Online Discourses (Lin and Tong 2009)
Conclusion
Note
Key Readings
19 Classroom Discourse
Introduction
Current Thinking and Research on Classroom Discourse
Analyses of ‘turns, sequences and meanings’
A Sample Study
Future Directions
Key Readings
20 Discourse and Intercultural Communication
What Is Culture?
Intercultural Communication
Researching Cultural Values
Intercultural Communicative Competence
A Sample Study: Managing ‘Rapport’ across Cultures
Conclusions
Key Readings
21 Medical Discourse
Introduction
Illness-ing
Patient-ing and Doctor-ing: The Social Epistemics of Knowledge and Sensations
Doing: Being a ‘Competent Patient’
Widening Out the Realm of Medical Discourse Research
Conclusion
Notes
Key Readings
Glossary
References
Author Index
Subject Index
