Description
Book SynopsisAn exemplary textbook. Making even the most complex ideas fully accessible, it is grounded in an extensive literature, filled with engaging examples, and offers ample suggestions for independent research. It's been a key text in my classes for over a decade and, as fresh and relevant as ever, will continue to buttress my graduate seminars and undergraduate courses alike.
- Professor Crispin Thurlow, University of Washington
Comprehensive, practical, lively and accessible, Working with Spoken Discourse is the much-loved benchmark for learning to do discourse analysis. It combines theory and practice to give students the grounding they need in practical techniques of analyzing talk and how to apply them to real data.
- Begins with the why' and how' of doing discourse analysis
- Packs examples into every chapter to help explain co
Trade Review
Working with Spoken Discourse is an exemplary textbook. Making even the most complex ideas fully accessible, it is grounded in an extensive literature, filled with engaging examples, and offers ample suggestions for independent research. It’s been a key text in my classes for over a decade and, as fresh and relevant as ever, will continue to buttress my graduate seminars and undergraduate courses alike.
-- Professor Crispin Thurlow
Table of Contents
PART ONE: PRELIMINARIES What Is Discourse and Why Analyze It? Collecting Data Practical and Ethical Issues Transcribing Spoken Data PART TWO: APPROACHES Approaches to Discourse Analysis An Initial Orientation Situations and Events The Ethnography of Speaking Doing Things with Words Pragmatics Structure and Sequence Conversation Analysis Small Differences, Big Difference International Sociolinguistics Hidden Agenda? Critical Discourse Analysis PART THREE: APPLICATIONS Working with Talk in Social Research Identity, Difference and Power Locating Social Relations in Talk Designing Your Own Projects
