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Discourse Studies is the largest, most complete, most diverse and only multidisciplinary introduction to the field. Now combined into a single volume, this essential handbook:
is fully updated from start to finish to cover contemporary debates and research literature; covers everything from grammar, narrative, argumentation, cognition and pragmatics to social, political and critical approaches; adds two new chapters on ideology and identity; puts the student at the center, offering brand new features such as worked examples, sample analyses and recommended further reading
Written and edited by world-class scholars in their fields, it is the essential, one-stop companion for any student of discourse analysis and discourse studies.
Conversation Analysis: An Approach to the Analysis of Social Interaction
Conversation Analysis: An Approach to the Analysis of Social Interaction
Introduction
We humans spend a considerable portion of our lives interacting with one another. As social animals we coordinate our activities together, thereby constituting the familiar interactions and social institutions of everyday life. We walk to work with a friend, discussing the day to come. We return the call of a client who is checking the progress of a project. We coordinate with other crew members to dig a hole and put up a new telephone pole. We change the baby's diaper and pause for a round of tickling. We shop for dinner at a local market, avoiding collisions with others’ shopping carts, and prepare ...
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