Discourse Analysis

Fully revised and updated throughout, the new edition of Discourse Analysis is a user-friendly textbook for students taking their first course in linguistic approaches to discourse. * Second edition of a popular introductory textbook, combining breadth of coverage, practical examples, and student-friendly features * Includes new sections on metaphor, framing, stance and style, multimodal discourse, and Gricean pragmatics * Considers a variety of approaches to the subject, including critical discourse analysis, conversation analysis, interactional and variationist sociolinguistics, ethnography, corpus linguistics, and other qualitative and quantitative methods * Features detailed descriptions of the results of discourse analysts’ work * Retains and expands the useful student features, including discussion questions, exercises, and ideas for small research projects.

* Second edition of a popular introductory textbook, combining breadth of coverage, practical examples, and student-friendly features * Revised and updated throughout, with new examples and discussions, as well as an improved visual design * Includes new sections on metaphor, framing, stance and style, multimodal discourse, and Gricean pragmatics * Considers a variety of approaches to the subject, including critical discourse analysis, conversation analysis, interactional and variationist sociolinguistics, ethnography, corpus linguistics, and other qualitative and quantitative methods * Features detailed descriptions of the results of discourse analysts’ work * Retains and expands the useful student features, including discussion questions, exercises, and ideas for small research projects.

Barbara Johnstone is Professor of Rhetoric and Linguistics at Carnegie Mellon University and editor of the journal Language in Society. She is the author of Repetition in Arabic Discourse (1990), Stories, Community, and Place: Narratives from Middle America (1990), The Linguistic Individual (1996), and Qualitative Methods in Sociolinguistics (2001), in addition to many articles and book chapters.

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.Summary.2. Discourse and World.Linguistic Categories, Minds, and Worldviews.Discourse, Culture, and Ideology.Language Ideology.Silence.Summary.3. 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.4. 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.5. 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.6. 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.7. Intention and Interpretation.Speech Acts and Conversational Implicature.Contextualization Cues and Discourse Marking.Rhetorical Aims, Strategies, and Styles.Verbal Art and Performance.Summary.8. Some General Themes.A Heuristic Approach to Discourse Analysis.Locations of Meaning.Discourse as Strategy, Discourse as Adaptation.Language and Languaging.Particularity, Theory, and Method.From Text Outward.Glossary.References.Index