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The Discourse Reader [Paperback]

Adam Jaworski (Editor), Nik Coupland (Editor)

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ISBN-10: 0415197341 | ISBN-13: 978-0415197342 | Publication Date: July 29, 1999 | Edition: 1

The Discourse Reader collects in one volume the most important and influential articles on discourse analysis. Designed as a structured sourcebook and divided into clear sections, the book covers the foundations of modern discourse analysis and represents all of its contemporary methods and traditions.

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has been revised and updated throughout
includes six new articles from authors including Teun A. van Dijk, Judith Butler and Gillian Rose
includes 'discussion points' to help readers engage with key issues
covers the foundations of modern discourse analysis and represents all of its contemporary methods and traditions.

The second edition of The Discourse Reader remains an essential resource for all students of discourse analysis.

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The second edition:

has been revised and updated throughout
includes six new articles from authors including Teun A. van Dijk, Judith Butler and Gillian Rose
includes 'discussion points' to help readers engage with key issues
covers the foundations of modern discourse analysis and represents all of its contemporary methods and traditions.

The second edition of The Discourse Reader remains an essential resource for all students of discourse analysis.

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"[T]he most comprehensive interdisciplinary one-volume set of readings on discourse that is available today. Jaworski and Coupland have succeeded in combining their broad coverage with a clear focus on the social nature of discourse."
-Jef Verschueren, International Pragmatics Association
"'Finally we have it. This book belongs on the shelf of everyone with an interest in discourse from beginning student to seasoned researcher.' Ron Scollon, Georgetown University, USA."

Product Details

Paperback: 624 pages
Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (July 29, 1999)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0415197341
ISBN-13: 978-0415197342
Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.1 x 1.3 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #532,034 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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IN THE GENERAL INTRODUCTION we characterised discourse analysis as a reaching out beyond the visible or audible forms of language into social context, and as exploring the interplay between language and social processes. Read the first page

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minimal proper conversation, oracular reasoning, consultation frame, greeting substitutes, textual samples, killer riot, reporting register, sex narratives, intertextual analysis, conversational register, linguistic habitus, topical continuity, examination frame, interview genre, phatic communion, represented participants, narrative clauses, complicating action, dirt sample, interactive frames, politeness theory, frontal angle, head psychiatrist, diagnostic sequence, positive politeness

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New York, Cambridge University Press, Academic Press, Polity Press, New Zealand, Daily Telegraph, University of California, Deborah Tannen, Free Press, Harvey Sacks, United States, Kegan Paul, Marie Claire, Deborah Cameron, New Pike, Clare Campbell, Newbury Park, University of Pennsylvania Press, West Indian, British English, Charles Goodwin, Child Development Center, Erving Goffman, Georgetown University Press, Janet Holmes

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