The Handbook of Discourse Analysis

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.

Deborah Schiffrin is Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University. Her major publications include Discourse Markers (1987), Approaches to Discourse (Blackwell 1994), and Language, Text and Interaction (forthcoming).

Deborah Tannen is a University Professor and Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University. Her books include Talking Voices (1989), Conversational Style (1984), You Just Don't Understand (1990), Gender and Discourse (1994), The Argument Culture (1999), and, most recently, I Only Say This Because I Love You (2001).Heidi E. Hamilton is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University. She is the 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).

Introduction
Discourse Analysis and Linguistics
Intonation And Discourse: Current Views From Within
Cohesion And Texture
Discourse Markers: Language, Meaning And Context
Discourse And Semantics
Discourse And Relevance Theory
Discourse And Information Structure
Historical Discourse Analysis
Typology And Discourse
Register Variation: A Corpus Approach
The Linking Of Theory and Practice In Discourse Analysis
Nine Ways Of Looking At Apologies: The Necessity Of Interdisciplinary Theory And Method In Discourse Analysis
Interactional Sociolinguistics: A Personal Perspective
Discourse As An Interactional Achievement III: The Omnirelevance Of Action
Discourse And Interaction
The Linguistic Structure Of Discourse
The Variationist Approach Towards Discours Structural Effects And Socio-Interactional Dynamics
Computer-Assisted Text And Corpus Analysis: Lexical Cohesion And Communicative Competence
The Transcription Of Discourse
Discourse: Language, Context, and Interaction
Political, Social, And Institutional Domains
Critical Discourse Analysis
Discourse And Racism
Political Discourse
Discourse And The Media
Discourse Analysis In The Legal Context
The Discourse Of Medical Encounters
Language And Medicine
Discourse In Educational Settings
Institutional Narratives

Discourse And Intercultural Communication
Discourse And Gender
Discourse And Aging
Child Discourse
Computer-Mediated Discourse
Discourse And Narrative
Discourse And Conflict
Discourse Across Disciplines
The Analysis Of Discourse Flow
The Discursive Turn In Social Psychology
Discourse And Language Teaching
Discourse Analysis In Communication
Discourse And Sociology: Sociology And Discourse
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