Summary
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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.
Analysis II: Patterns and Context
Analysis II: Patterns and Context
We consider first the identification of patterns. We next present an example of working up an analysis. The chapter concludes with a discussion of context and of quantification.
Patterns
The identification of patterns as one proceeds across the segments of discourse is an important part of analytic activity. Patterns involve form or structure, the disposition or arrangement of parts or elements. Patterns can be synchronic (e.g., a particular usage by a particular participant) or diachronic (e.g., the turn-taking structure of a conversation). They involve essentially the recognition of relationships between features of discourse: within or across participants, within or across sections, within or across occasions, and so on. For example, in the study of conference transcripts described previously, ...
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