Working with Discourse: Meaning Beyond the Clause

by J. R. Martin, David Rose

Overview

This second edition of the best-selling textbook Working with Discourse has been revised and updated throughout. The book builds an accessible set of analytic tools that can be used to explore how speakers and writers construe meaning through discourse. These techniques are introduced in clear steps, through analyses of spoken, written and visual texts that focus on truth and reconciliation in post-apartheid South Africa. The new edition includes a chapter on Negotiation, clear definitions of key terms, chapter summaries and revised suggestions for further reading.

Accessibly written and presupposing no prior knowledge of discourse or functional linguistics, this is the ideal textbook for students encountering discourse analysis for the first time at advanced undergraduate or postgraduate level.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826488503
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	07/31/2007
Series:	Open Linguistics Series
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	375
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.78(d)

About the Author

J. R. Martin is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney, Australia. The Martin Centre for Appliable Linguistics was opened by Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2014.

David Rose is Honorary Associate in Linguistics at the University of Sydney, Australia and Director of Reading to Learn, an international literacy program. He has worked with First Nations communities and education programs for over forty years.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Interpreting social discourse

1.0 An invitation

1.1 A framework for discussion

1.2 Genre

1.3 Language, power and ideology

1.4 How this book is organised

1.5 How to use this book

Chapter 2 APPRAISAL - negotiating attitudes

2.0 Negotiating attitudes

2.1 Kinds of attitudes

2.2 Amplifying attitudes

2.3 Sources of attitudes

2.4 Prosody and genre

2.5 More detail on kinds of attitude

Chapter 3 IDEATION - representing experience

3.0 Representing experience

3.1 Sequences of meanings

3.2 Doing - focusing on activities

3.3 Being - focusing on entities

3.4 Classifying and describing within elements

3.5 Ways of participating

3.6 Building up a picture - taxonomic relations

3.7 Types of taxonomic relations

3.8 Re-construing experience - ideational metaphor

Chapter 4 conjunction - connecting events

4.0 The logic of discourse

4.1 Four kinds of logic

4.3 Connecting arguments

4.4 Continuatives

4.5 Countering our expectations

4.6 Conjunction resources in full

4.7 Displaying connections - conjunction analysis

4.8 Logical metaphor

Chapter 5 IDENTIFICATION - tracking participants

5.0 Keeping track

5.1 Who's who? - identifying people

5.2 What's what? - identifying things

5.3 Where to look?

5.4 Tracking and genre

5.5 Identification systems in full

Chapter 6 PERIODICITY - information flow

6.0 Waves of information

6.1 Little waves - Themes and News

6.2 Bigger waves - hyperThemes and hyperNews

6.3 Tidal waves - macroThemes, macroNews, and beyond

6.4 How texts grow - hierarchies and series

6.5 Hard reading

6.6 A note on headings

6.7 Texture - phasing discourse systems

Chapter 7 NEGOTIATION

7.1 Interacting in dialogue

7.2 Exchanging roles - speech function

7.3 speech function and mood

7.4 Responding to

7.5 Sequencing moves - exchange structure

7.6 Interrupting exchanges - tracking and challenging

7.7 Extended exchanges - move and exchange complexes

7.8 Negotiation & beyond

Chapter 8 TACKLING A TEXT

8.1 Getting going

8.2 Outside-in

8.3 Inside-out

8.4 Inauguration day - from past to present

8.5 The Cost of Courage - from domination to freedom

8.6 The Meaning of Freedom - from self to community

8.7 Reprise

Chapter 9 CONNECTIONS

9.1 Context (register and genre)

9.2 Data

9.3 Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA)

9.4 Multimodal Discourse Analysis (MDA)

9.5 Voices

References