Working with Spoken Discourse

by Deborah Cameron

Overview

Working with Spoken Discourse provides a comprehensive account of the expanding multidisciplinary field of discourse analysis. Combining theory and practice it covers a wide range of material in a lively and accessible style. It discusses current approaches, concepts and debates in the field of spoken discourse and provides a grounding in the practical techniques of discourse analysis and how to apply them to real data.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761957737
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	05/25/2001
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	6.69(w) x 9.45(h) x (d)

About the Author

Deborah Cameron teaches at Oxford University, where she is Professor of Language and Communication. Her main research interests are in sociolinguistics, discourse analysis and the study of gender and sexuality; her previous publications include Working with Spoken Discourse (2001) and Working with Written Discourse (with Ivan Panovic, 2014), Good to Talk? (2000),The Myth of Mars and Venus (2007), and Verbal Hygiene (1995/2012).

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

Editorial Reviews

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