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The Handbook of Discourse Analysis (eBook, PDF)

Beschreibung

The Handbook of Discourse Analysis makes significant contributions to current research and serves as a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the central issues in contemporary discourse analysis. * Features comprehensive coverage of contemporary discourse analysis. * Offers an overview of how different disciplines approach the analysis of discourse. * Provides analysis of a wide range of data, including political speeches, everyday conversation, and literary texts. * Includes a varied range of theoretical models, such as relevance theory and systemic-functional linguistics; and methodology, including interpretive, statistical, and formal methodsFeatures comprehensive coverage of contemporary discourse analysis.

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Autor

Deborah Schiffrin is Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University. Major publications include Discourse Markers (1987), Approaches to Discourse (Blackwell 1994), and Language, Text and Interaction (forthcoming). Deborah Tannen is University Professor and Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics at Georgetown University. Her books include Gender & Discourse (1994), Talking Voices (1989), Conversational Style (1984), The Argument Culture (1999) and You Just Don't Understand (1990). Her newest book is I Only Say This Because I Love You (2001). Heidi Hamilton is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University.She is author of Conversations with an Alzheimer's Patient (1994), and Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines (forthcoming), and editor of Language and Communication in Old Age (1999).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780470751985
• Artikelnr.: 38210128

Rezensionen

"The volume is intended as, and succeeds in being, both anauthoritative guide to the field and a contribution to currentresearch" Forum for Modern Language Studies, Vol 39,2003

"(T)he handbook with be a valuable source of information andinspiration for further research in discourse analysis in thecontext of modern language studies and in linguistics in general."The Modern Language Journal

"These are success stories that are bound to encourageresearchers from various disciplinary backgrounds and nationaltraditions to turn to discourse analysis as a viable methodologicaland theoretical framework." Social Anthropology