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 methods Features comprehensive coverage of contemporary discourse analysis.
Om författaren
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).