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Approaches to Discourse: Language as Social Interaction

ISBN: 978-0-631-16623-8

November 1993

Wiley-Blackwell

480 pages

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