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Approaches to Discourse: Language as Social Interaction

ISBN: 978-0-631-16623-8

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provides guide to the various frameworks, concepts, and methods available for the analysis of discourse within linguistics.
compares six dominant approaches to discourse analysis: speech act theory, pragmatics, ethnomethodology, interactional sociolinguistics, ethnography of communication, and variation theory.
illustrates each approach through extensive applications to a variety of concrete social and linguistic problems facing discourse analysts.
written in rigorous yet accessible fashion