Approaches to Discourse Analysis

by Cynthia Gordon (Editor), Susan U. Philips (Contribution by), Donal Carbaugh (Contribution by), Eean Grimshaw (Contribution by), Streeck Jurgen (Contribution by)

Overview

In this groundbreaking collection, scholars within the field of linguistics and beyond offer discourse analyses in multiple languages, contexts, and modes, demonstrating the importance of the diverse perspectives that various approaches to discourse bring to bear on human communication.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781647121112
Publisher:	Georgetown University Press
Publication date:	10/01/2021
Series:	Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	5 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Cynthia Gordon uses theories and methods of discourse analysis to examine everyday social interactions in family, educational, and online and digital contexts. Author of Making Meanings, Creating Family, she was a 2012–13 fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. She is a coeditor of Family Talk and Identity and Ideology in Digital Food Discourse.

Table of Contents

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

IntroductionCynthia Gordon

1. How Linguistic Anthropologists Conceptualize Relations among Different Forms of DiscourseSusan U. Philips

2. "Two Different Kinds of Life": A Cultural Analysis of Blackfeet Discourse Donal Carbaugh and Eean Grimshaw

3. Gesture, Mimesis, and the Linguistics of Time Jürgen Streeck

4. The Ambiguity and Polysemy of Power and Solidarity in Professor-Student Emails and Conversations among Friends Deborah Tannen

5. What Do Discourse Markers Mark? Arabic yani (It Means) and Hebrew ya'ani across Modalities and Sociolinguistic Systems Michal Marmorstein

6: Reconsidering the Concept of "Total Institutions" in Light of Interactional Sociolinguistics: The Meaning of the Marker "Here" Branca Telles Ribeiro and Diana de Souza Pinto

7. The Expression of Authority in US Primary Care: Offering Diagnoses and Recommending Treatment John Heritage

8. Semiotic Ideologies and Trial Discourse: Implications for Multimodal Discourse Analysis Susan Ehrlich

9. Repair as Activism on Arabic Twitter Najma Al Zidjaly

10. Online Political Trolling as Bakhtin's Carnival: Putin's "Discrowning" by Pro-Ukrainian Commenters Alla V. Tovares

11. From Post-Truth to Post-Shame: Analyzing Far-Right Populist Rhetoric Ruth Wodak

Contributors

Index

What People are Saying About This

Scott Kiesling

Echoing Deborah Schiffrin's essential primer on discourse analysis, this volume is a fitting tribute to the breadth, creativity, and technical prowess of her oeuvre. Each chapter applies cutting edge theory and remixed methods to domains of interaction both familiar and new.

Janet Holmes

In this very readable and engaging book, established discourse analysts and newer scholars discuss a thought-provoking variety of current issues in a stimulating collection edited by distinguished scholar Cynthia Gordon. The impressive range of fascinating topics–which include political trolling, Arabic Twitter, and Blackfeet discourse–as well as the variety of methodologies ensure this collection will appeal to a wide audience in this vibrant research area.

Camilla Vásquez

This collection of fascinating papers–representing a wide range of engaging topics as well as diverse approaches to discourse analysis–is sure to inspire any student or scholar with interests in language and interaction.