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Providing both the practical steps for doing discourse analysis and the theoretical justifications for those steps, this book shows students how the social world revolves around talk and text. The authors draw on conversation analysis, critical discourse analysis, pragmatics, and the discursive approach developed in social psychology. The book presents actual examples, covers data collection methods and strategies for data analysis, and addresses issues of reliability and validity.
Examples of Discourse Analysis
Examples of Discourse Analysis
The spirit of discourse-analytic research is inductive; that is, it involves moving from the concrete to the abstract, from the particular to the general. In keeping with that spirit, we present in this chapter some examples of discourse-analytic research from which we hope readers will develop a sense of the activities involved before going on to the more abstract discussion of methods and analysis provided in Chapter 4 to Chapter 8. The best way to develop that sense is to carry out one's own analysis. The analysis of discourse data is partly a craft, in that it requires skills that cannot be wholly specified in cookbook fashion (take 1/2 cup of preference structure and fold into 2 cups ...
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