Approaches to Discourse: Language as Social Interaction

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Approaches to Discourse: Language as Social Interaction

Deborah Schiffrin

Description

This is a guide to the various frameworks, concepts, and methods available for the analysis of discourse within linguistics. It compares six dominant approaches to discourse analysis: speech act theory, pragmatics, ethnomethodology, interactional sociolinguistics, ethnography of communication, and variation theory.

The author not only considers each approach from several standpoints but she also illustrates them through extensive applications to a variety of concrete social and linguistic problems facing discourse analysts.

About the Author

Deborah Schiffrin is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University. She is author of Discourse Markers (1987).

Features

provides guide to the various frameworks, concepts, and methods available for the analysis of discourse within linguistics.
compares six dominant approaches to discourse analysis: speech act theory, pragmatics, ethnomethodology, interactional sociolinguistics, ethnography of communication, and variation theory.
illustrates each approach through extensive applications to a variety of concrete social and linguistic problems facing discourse analysts.
written in rigorous yet accessible fashion

Series

Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics

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