The Handbook of Discourse Analysis
Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics
1. Auflage August 2001
872 Seiten, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
The Handbook of Discourse Analysis makes significant contributions to current research and serves as a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the central issues in contemporary discourse analysis.
* Features comprehensive coverage of contemporary discourse analysis.
* Offers an overview of how different disciplines approach the analysis of discourse.
* Provides analysis of a wide range of data, including political speeches, everyday conversation, and literary texts.
* Includes a varied range of theoretical models, such as relevance theory and systemic-functional linguistics; and methodology, including interpretive, statistical, and formal methodsFeatures comprehensive coverage of contemporary discourse analysis.
Tannen (Georgetown University) and Heidi Hamilton (Georgetown
University).
Part I: Discourse Analysis and Linguistics.
Part II: The Linking of Theory and Practice in Discourse
Analysis.
Part III: Discourse: Language, Context, and Interaction.
Political, Social, and Institutional Domains.
Culture, Community, and Genre.
Part IV: Discourse Across Disciplines.
Index.
authoritative guide to the field and a contribution to current
research" Forum for Modern Language Studies, Vol 39,
2003
"(T)he handbook with be a valuable source of information and
inspiration for further research in discourse analysis in the
context of modern language studies and in linguistics in general."
The Modern Language Journal
"These are success stories that are bound to encourage
researchers from various disciplinary backgrounds and national
traditions to turn to discourse analysis as a viable methodological
and theoretical framework." Social Anthropology
Georgetown University. Major publications include Discourse
Markers (1987), Approaches to Discourse (Blackwell
1994), and Language, Text and Interaction
(forthcoming).
Deborah Tannen is University Professor and Professor of
Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics at Georgetown
University. Her books include Gender & Discourse (1994),
Talking Voices (1989), Conversational Style (1984),
The Argument Culture (1999) and You Just Don't
Understand (1990). Her newest book is I Only Say This
Because I Love You (2001).
Heidi Hamilton is Associate Professor of Linguistics at
Georgetown University.She is author of Conversations with an
Alzheimer's Patient (1994), and Discourse Analysis Across
Disciplines (forthcoming), and editor of Language and
Communication in Old Age (1999).
