| Approaches to Discourse: Language as Social Interaction Contributor(s): Schiffrin, Deborah (Author) |
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ISBN: 0631166238 ISBN-13: 9780631166238 Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell OUR PRICE: $84.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1994 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Semantics |
| Dewey: 410.41 |
| LCCN: 93-13359 |
| Series: Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics |
| Physical Information: 1.08" H x 6.79" W x 9.66" (1.80 lbs) 480 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |