Approaches to Discourse
Language as Social Interaction
Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics
1. Edition November 1993
482 Pages, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
ISBN:
978-0-631-16623-8
John Wiley & Sons
This is a guide to the various frameworks, concepts, and methods
available for the analysis of discourse within linguistics. It
compares six dominant approaches to discourse analysis: speech act
theory, pragmatics, ethnomethodology, interactional
sociolinguistics, ethnography of communication, and variation
theory.
The author not only considers each approach from several
standpoints but she also illustrates them through extensive
applications to a variety of concrete social and linguistic
problems facing discourse analysts.
Preface and Acknowledgments.
Part I: The Scope of Discourse Analysis.
1. Overview.
2. Definitions of Discourse.
Part II: Approaches to Discourse Analysis.
3. Speech Act Theory.
4. Interactional Sociolinguists.
5. The Ethnography of Communication.
6. Pragmatics.
7. Conversation Analysis.
8. Variation Analysis.
Part III: Conclusion.
9. Structure and Function.
10. Text and Context.
11. Discourse and Communication.
12. Conclusion: Language as Social Interaction.
Appendix 1: Collecting Data.
Appendix 2: Transcription Conventions.
Appendix 3: Sample Data.
Bibliography.
Index
Part I: The Scope of Discourse Analysis.
1. Overview.
2. Definitions of Discourse.
Part II: Approaches to Discourse Analysis.
3. Speech Act Theory.
4. Interactional Sociolinguists.
5. The Ethnography of Communication.
6. Pragmatics.
7. Conversation Analysis.
8. Variation Analysis.
Part III: Conclusion.
9. Structure and Function.
10. Text and Context.
11. Discourse and Communication.
12. Conclusion: Language as Social Interaction.
Appendix 1: Collecting Data.
Appendix 2: Transcription Conventions.
Appendix 3: Sample Data.
Bibliography.
Index
"Deborah Schiffrin has written a rigorous yet accessible description and comparison of various approaches to the analysis of discourse." Pragmatics
Deborah Schiffrin is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University. She is author of Discourse Markers (1987).
