Approaches to Discourse: Language as Social Interaction (Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics)

Approaches to Discourse: Language as Social Interaction (Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics)

by Deborah Schiffrin (Author)

Synopsis

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.

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Format: Illustrated
Pages: 482
Edition: 1
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 29 Jan 1994

ISBN 10: 0631166238
ISBN 13: 9780631166238

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Deborah Schiffrin has written a rigorous yet accessible description and comparison of various approaches to the analysis of discourse. Pragmatics
Author Bio
Deborah Schiffrin is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University. She is author of Discourse Markers (1987).