Approaches to Discourse (Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics)
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EAN/UPC/ISBN Code
9780631166238
Brand
Wiley-Blackwell
Author
Deborah Schiffrin
Pages
480
Year of production
1993
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.