534 Pages
    by Routledge

    534 Pages
    by Routledge

    In this bestselling Reader, Jaworski and Coupland have collected in one volume the most important and influential articles on discourse analysis. Designed as a structured sourcebook and divided into clear sections, The Discourse Reader covers the foundations of modern discourse analysis and represents all of its contemporary methods and traditions.

    The third edition:

    • Has been revised and updated throughout to ensure a selection of up to date and accessible readings

    • Includes new readings by Jan Blommaert, Norman Fairclough, James Paul Gee, Barbara Johnstone, Ron Scollon and Don Zimmerman, among others.

    • Features papers by leading researchers commissioned especially for the new edition.

    The general introduction serves as an essential introduction to the field of discourse analysis, while the section introductions provide a useful overview and further insight into the readings.

    The third edition of The Discourse Reader is a key resource for all students of discourse analysis in a wide range of disciplines from linguistics to communication studies, anthropology and psychology.

    Introduction: Perspectives on Discourse Analysis

    Part 1: Discourse: Meaning, Function and Context

    Editors’ Introduction

    1 Roman Jakobson

    Linguistics and Poetics

    2 J. L. Austin

    How to Do Things with Words

    3 H. P. Grice

    Logic and Conversation

    4 M. M. Bakhtin

    The Problem of Speech Genres

    5 Norman Fairclough

    Social Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Text Analysis

    6 Ron Scollon

    Modes and modality: The multimodal shaping of reality in public discourse.

     

    Part 2: Methods and Resources for Analysing Discourse

    Editors’ Introduction

    7 Deborah Cameron, Elizabeth Fraser, Penelope Harvey, Ben Rampton and Kay Richardson

    Ethics, Advocacy and Empowerment

    8 James Paul Gee

    Tools of Inquiry and Discourses

    9 Wolfram Bublitz

    Cohesion and Coherence

    10 Jenny Thomas

    Activity Types versus Speech Events

    11 David Machin and Theo van Leeuwen

    Genre Analysis in Media Discourse

     

    Part 3: Sequence and Structure

    Editors’ Introduction

    12 William Labov

    The Transformation of Experience in Narrative

    13 Derek Edwards

    Narrative Analysis

    14 Harvey Sacks

    On the Analyzability of Stories by Children

    15 Emanuel A. Schegloff and Harvey Sacks

    Opening up Closings

    16 Geoffrey Raymond and Jack Sidnell

    Conversation Analysis

    17 Deborah Schiffrin

    Oh as a Marker of Information Management

     

    Part 4: Negotiating Social Relationships

    Editors’ Introduction

    18 Bronislaw Malinowski

    On Phatic Communion

    19 Erving Goffman

    On Face-work

    20 Penelope Brown and Stephen C. Levinson

    Politeness: Some Universals in Language Usage

    21 Deborah Tannen and Cynthia Wallat

    Interactive Frames and Knowledge Schemas in Interaction: Examples from a Medical Examination/Interview

     

    Part 5: Identity and Subjectivity

    Editors’ Introduction

    22 Deborah Cameron

    Performing Gender Identity: Young Men’s Talk and the Construction of Heterosexual Masculinity

    23 Don H. Zimmerman

    Identity, Context and Interaction

    24 Barbara Johnstone

    Pittsburghese Shirts: Commodification and Enregisterment of an Urban Dialect

    25 Gerlinde Mautner

    Signs of the Times: A Discourse Perspective on Public Signage, Urban Space and the Law

    Part 6: Power, Ideology and Control

    Editors’ Introduction

    26 Pierre Bourdieu

    Language and Symbolic Power

    27 Teun A van Dijk

    Discourse and the Denial of Racism

    28 Ian Hutchby

    Power in Discourse: The Case of Arguments on a British Talk Radio Show

    29 Hugh Mehan

    Oracular Reasoning in a Psychiatric Exam

    30 Paul Baker and Tony McEnery

    FIND THE DOCTORS OF DEATH’: The UK Press and the Issue of Foreign Doctors Working in the NHS, a Corpus-Based Approach

    31 Crispin Thurlow

    Disciplining Youth: Language Ideologies and New Technologies

    32 Jan Blommaert

    Orders of Indexicality and Polycentricity

     

     

    Biography

    Adam Jaworski is Professor at the University of Hong Kong. He is co-editor of Semiotic Landscapes: Language, Image, Space (2010) and co-author of Tourism Discourse: The Language of Global Mobility (2010).

    Nikolas Coupland is Research Professor at the University of Copenhagen and Distinguished Professor of Sociolinguistics at the University of Technology Sydney. He is editor of the Handbook of Language and Globalization (2010) and co-editor of Standard Languages and Language Standards in a Changing Europe (2011) with Tore Kristiansen.

    'Jaworski and Coupland’s new edition of The Discourse Reader is an exciting update to what is an essential part of any university offering in Discourse Analysis.The volume combines seminal, landmark works with new, cutting-edge theoretical and empirical pieces. This reader is a must for all of us in the field of Discourse Analysis.'

    Professor Diana Boxer, University of Florida, USA

    'This work provides a rich reference resource of approaches and methods in discourse studies. The list of contributors is impressive with chapters written by distinguished scholars who have shaped current perspectives and advanced understanding in the field. This book should be seen as the essential reader for students of discourse analysis and as a highly valued reference work for researchers.'

    Dr Helen Basturkmen, University of Auckland, New Zealand

    'The 3rd Edition of The Discourse Reader continues to be a valuable and comprehensive collection of some of the most crucial writings on discourse theory. Spanning the breadth of modern discourse analysis in an extremely well-written and elegantly structured volume, for both students and practitioners, this book is a must have!'

    Dr. Aditi Bhatia, City University of Hong Kong

    'The best book on discourse analysis just got better. With this third edition, Jaworski and Coupland bring their classic collection up to date with a wealth of new, cutting-edge chapters, some commissioned especially for this volume, The Discourse Reader remains the most coherent and comprehensive resource for students of discourse analysis on the market today.' 

    Rodney Jones, City University of Hong Kong