Discourse Analysis

Revised and updated, this third edition of Barbara Johnstone's Discourse Analysis encourages students to think about discourse analysis as an open-ended set of techniques. Exploring a variety of approaches, including critical discourse analysis, conversation analysis, interactional and variationist sociolinguistics, ethnography, corpus linguistics, social semiotics, and other qualitative and quantitative methods, the book balances its comprehensive coverage with extensive practical examples, making it the ideal introductory text for students new to the subject.
 
This new edition reflects the increased importance within the field of new media discourse, multi-modal discourse and the analysis of large corpora of discourse data. Updated material expands the discussion of stancetaking, whilst new material addresses recontextualization, precontextualization, and language and the body. Pedagogical features have been refreshed, including discussion questions, exercises, and ideas for small research projects, with suggested supplementary readings at the end of each chapter to encourage further discovery.
* Chapters in this book are self-contained, so they can be handled in any order
* Suggested supplementary readings are featured at the end of every chapter
* Book is written specifically for a non-specialist, interdisciplinary audience
* Examples of computer-aided corpus analysis (reflecting the improvements made to theories and tools) supplement every chapter
* Discussion questions and ideas for small research projects are interspersed throughout
 
The combination of breadth of coverage, practical examples, and student-friendly pedagogical features ensures Discourse Analysis remains the ideal textbook for students taking their first course in linguistic approaches to discourse.

List of contents

List of Figures
 
Preface to Second Edition
 
Preface to First Edition
 
1 Introduction
 
What is Discourse Analysis?
 
Some Uses of Discourse Analysis
 
Facets of Discourse Analysis
 
Data for Discourse Analysis
 
Transcription: Representing Speech in Writing
 
"Descriptive" and "Critical" Goals
 
Locations of Meaning
 
Discourse as Strategy, Discourse as Adaptation
 
Language and Languaging
 
Particularity, Theory, and Method
 
From Text Outward
 
Summary
 
2 Discourse and World
 
Linguistic Categories, Minds, and Worldviews
 
Discourse, Culture, and Ideology
 
Language Ideology
 
Silence
 
Summary
 
3 Intention and Interpretation
 
Speech Acts and Conversational Implicature
 
Contextualization Cues and Discourse Marking
 
Rhetorical Aims, Strategies, and Styles
 
Verbal Art and Performance
 
Summary
 
4 Discourse Structure: Parts and Sequences
 
Words and Lines
 
Paragraphs and Episodes
 
Discourse Schemata and the Structure of Narrative
 
The Emergent Organization of Conversation
 
Old and New Information and the Organization of Sentences
 
Cohesion
 
Structures and Rules
 
5 Participants in Discourse: Relationships, Roles, Identities
 
Power and Community
 
Indexicality
 
Stance and Style
 
Social Roles and Participant Structure
 
Audience, Politeness, and Accommodation
 
Social Identity and Identification
 
Personal Identity: Discourse and the Self
 
The Linguistic Individual in Discourse
 
Summary
 
6 Prior Texts, Prior Discourses
 
Intertextuality and Interdiscursivity
 
Repetition in Conversation
 
Register: Repeated Styles for Repeated Situations
 
Genre: Recurrent Forms, Recurrent Actions
 
Frames, Plots, and Coherence
 
Summary
 
7 Discourse and Medium
 
Early Work on "Orality and Literacy"
 
Literacy and Literacies
 
Communication and Technology
 
Planning and Discourse Structure
 
Fixity, Fluidity, and Coherence
 
Medium and Interpersonal Relations
 
Analyzing Multimodal Discourse
 
Summary

About the author

Barbara Johnstone is Professor of Rhetoric and Linguistics at Carnegie Mellon University, USA. She is the author of several books as well as numerous articles and book chapters on topics related to language, place, and the individual.

Summary

Revised and updated, this third edition of Barbara Johnstone's Discourse Analysis encourages students to think about discourse analysis as an open-ended set of techniques. Exploring a variety of approaches, including critical discourse analysis, conversation analysis, interactional and variationist sociolinguistics, ethnography, corpus linguistics, social semiotics, and other qualitative and quantitative methods, the book balances its comprehensive coverage with extensive practical examples, making it the ideal introductory text for students new to the subject.

This new edition reflects the increased importance within the field of new media discourse, multi-modal discourse and the analysis of large corpora of discourse data. Updated material expands the discussion of stancetaking, whilst new material addresses recontextualization, precontextualization, and language and the body. Pedagogical features have been refreshed, including discussion questions, exercises, and ideas for small research projects, with suggested supplementary readings at the end of each chapter to encourage further discovery.
* Chapters in this book are self-contained, so they can be handled in any order
* Suggested supplementary readings are featured at the end of every chapter
* Book is written specifically for a non-specialist, interdisciplinary audience
* Examples of computer-aided corpus analysis (reflecting the improvements made to theories and tools) supplement every chapter
* Discussion questions and ideas for small research projects are interspersed throughout

The combination of breadth of coverage, practical examples, and student-friendly pedagogical features ensures Discourse Analysis remains the ideal textbook for students taking their first course in linguistic approaches to discourse.

Product details

• Authors: B Johnstone, Barbara Johnstone, Barbara (Carnegie Mellon University) Johnstone, Johnstone Barbara
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9781119257691
• ISBN: 978-1-119-25769-1
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Introducing Linguistics; Introducing Linguistics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; Anthropologie, Linguistik, Angewandte Linguistik, Linguistics, Anthropology, Gesprächsanalyse, Sprachwissenschaften, Applied Linguistics, Linguistic Anthropology, Discourse & Conversation Analysis, Linguistische Anthropologie