The second edition of the highly successful Handbook of
Discourse Analysis has been expanded and thoroughly updated to
reflect the very latest research to have developed since the
original publication, including new theoretical paradigms and
discourse-analytic models, in an authoritative two-volume
set.
* Twenty new chapters highlight emerging trends and the latest
areas of research
* Contributions reflect the range, depth, and richness of current
research in the field
* Chapters are written by internationally-recognized leaders in
their respective fields, constituting a Who’s Who of
Discourse Analysis
* A vital resource for scholars and students in discourse studies
as well as for researchers in related fields who seek authoritative
overviews of discourse analytic issues, theories, and methods
Table of Content
Notes on Contributors xi
Preface to the Second Edition xix
Introduction to the First Edition 1
I Linguistic Analysis of Discourse 9
1 Discourse and Grammar 11
Marianne Mithun
2 Intertextuality in Discourse 42
Adam Hodges
3 Cohesion and Texture 61
J. R. Martin
4 Intonation and Discourse 82
Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen
5 Voice Registers 105
Mark A. Sicoli
6 Computer-Mediated Discourse 2.0 127
Susan C. Herring and Jannis Androutsopoulos
7 Discourse Analysis and Narrative 152
Anna De Fina and Barbara Johnstone
8 Humor and Laughter 168
Salvatore Attardo
9 Discourse Markers: Language, Meaning, and Context 189
Yael Maschler and Deborah Schiffrin
10 Historical Discourse Analysis 222
Laurel J. Brinton
11 Discourse, Space, and Place 244
Elizabeth Keating
12 Gesture in Discourse 262
David Mcneill, Elena T. Levy, and Susan D. Duncan
II Approaches and Methodologies 291
13 Nine Ways of Looking at Apologies: The Necessity for Interdisciplinary Theory and Method in Discourse Analysis 293
Robin Tolmach Lakoff
14 Interactional Sociolinguistics: A Personal Perspective 309
John J. Gumperz
15 Framing and Positioning 324
Cynthia Gordon
16 Conversational Interaction: The Embodiment of Human Sociality 346
Emanuel A. Schegloff
17 Transcribing Embodied Action 367
Paul Luff and Christian Heath
18 Constraining and Guiding the Flow of Discourse 391
Wallace Chafe
19 Imagination in Narratives 406
Herbert H. Clark and Mija M. Van Der Wege
20 Oral Discourse as a Semiotic Ecology: The Co-construction and Mutual Influence of Speaking, Listening, and Looking 422
Frederick Erickson
21 Multimodality 447
Theo Van Leeuwen
22 Critical Discourse Analysis 466
Teun A. Van Dijk
23 Computer-Assisted Methods of Analyzing Textual and Intertextual Competence 486
Michael Stubbs
24 Register Variation: A Corpus Approach 505
Shelley Staples, Jesse Egbert, Douglas Biber, and Susan Conrad
III The Individual, Society, and Culture 527
25 Voices of the Speech Community: Six People I Have Learned From 529
William Labov
26 Language Ideologies 557
Susan U. Philips
27 Discourse and Racism 576
Ruth Wodak and Martin Reisigl
28 Code-Switching, Identity, and Globalization 597
Kira Hall and Chad Nilep
29 Cross-cultural and Intercultural Communication and Discourse Analysis 620
Scott F. Kiesling
30 Discourse and Gender 639
Shari Kendall and Deborah Tannen
31 Queer Linguistics as Critical Discourse Analysis 661
William L. Leap
32 Child Discourse 681
Amy Kyratzis and Jenny Cook-Gumperz
33 Discourse and Aging 705
Heidi E. Hamilton and Toshiko Hamaguchi
34 Discursive Underpinnings of Family Coordination 728
Elinor Ochs and Tamar Kremer-Sadlik
IV Discourse in Real-World Contexts 753
35 Institutional Discourse 755
Andrea Mayr
36 Political Discourse 775
John Wilson
37 Discourse and Media 795
Colleen Cotter
38 Discourse Analysis in the Legal Context 822
Roger W. Shuy
39 Discourse and Health Communication 841
Rodney H. Jones
40 Discourse in Educational Settings 858
Carolyn Temple Adger and Laura J. Wright
41 Discourse in the Workplace 880
Janet Holmes
42 Discourse and Religion 902
Michael Lempert
Author Index 921
Subject Index 939
About the author
Deborah Tannen is University Professor and Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University. She has published 25 books, including You’re the Only One I Can Tell: Inside the Language of Women’s Friendships (2017), Talking Voices (2nd edition 2007), Conversational Style (New Edition 2005), and You Just Don’t Understand (1990). She has been Mc Graw Distinguished Lecturer at Princeton University and has twice been a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford.
Heidi E. Hamilton is Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Georgetown University. Her publications include Language, Dementia, and Meaning Making: Navigating Everyday Challenges of Epistemic Understanding and Face (in preparation), the Routledge Handbook of Language and Health Communication (co-edited with Sylvia Chou, 2014), Linguistics, Language, and the Professions (co-edited with James E. Alatis and Ai-hui Tan, 2002), and Conversations with an Alzheimer’s Patient: An Interactional Sociolinguistic Study (1994, 2005). She has served as Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Linguistics in Innsbruck, Austria and as DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Visiting Professor in Berlin, Germany, and is recipient of the Humboldt
Research Award.
Deborah Schiffrin was Professor Emerita of Linguistics at Georgetown University. Her publications included In other words: Variation in reference and narrative (2006), Approaches to Discourse (1994), and Discourse Markers (1987). She was also the co-editor of Telling Stories (with Anna De Fina and Anastasia Nylund, 2010) and Discourse and Identity (with Anna De Fina and Michael Bamberg, 2006). Deborah sadly passed away in July 2017.