Discourses in Interaction
Published on 22. December 2010
Book
Hardback
315 pages
978-90-272-5607-2 (ISBN)
Description
The fourteen contributions in this collection come from different approaches in pragmatics, interactional linguistics, conversation analysis, discourse analysis and dialogue analysis; the name given to what is studied ranges from spoken language and conversation to interaction, dialogue, discourse and communication. What the articles have in common is a similar starting point: they are informed by a form of linguistic understanding which has emerged within what could be called the interactional turn. The materials investigated come from several different languages, representing a variety of interactions: private and public, written and spoken, historical and present-day. While studies of such diverse materials naturally differ in their starting points, goals and aims, engaging them in a dialogue can help reveal where old beliefs may be challenged and new understandings may emerge. The interactional approaches to discourse presented in this volume show that there are several discourses on interaction: interconnected, parallel, but also varying and even divergent.
Reviews / Votes
The most salient feature of this volume, I think, is that it presents readers with divergent research approaches and various types of data, such as courtroom interaction, media discourse, trials and telephone conversations. In so doing, it will benefit readers with different academic backgrounds. There are multiple reasons why the book can be recommended to a range of readers. It can not only serve as a course and reference book for students and researchers interested in the subject of discourse analysis, but also set the scene for further studies on interactional discourse linguistics. -- Yang Linxiu, Shanxi University, in Discourse Studies, Vol. 15:6 (2013), pag. 787-789More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
+ index
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 164 mm
Weight
740 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-5607-2 (9789027256072)
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Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen | Marja-Liisa Helasvuo | Marjut Johansson
Discourses in Interaction
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12/2010
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Content
1. Acknowledgments; 2. Discourse and the interactional turn (by Helasvuo, Marja-Liisa); 3. Part 1. Dialogues between contexts; 4. Contexts in context: Micro meets macro (by Fetzer, Anita); 5. Communicative activity types as organisations in discourses and discourses in organisations (by Linell, Per); 6. Discourse and context in a historical perspective: On courtroom interaction in Salem, 1692 (by Hiltunen, Risto); 7. Part 2. Constructing identity across genres; 8. Pronominal choice in French conversational interaction: Indices of national identity in identity acts (by Waugh, Linda R.); 9. Constructing interpersonal relations in the discourse of Russian media (by Vanhala-Aniszewski, Marjatta); 10. Who communicates in the media supported by the Russian Church? (by Siilin, Lea); 11. "O England! England! She says - my Father - my Sisters - my friends! - shall I ever see you more?": Reporting in 18th-century correspondence (by Nevala, Minna); 12. Part 3. Managing interpersonal relations; 13. Power in Early Modern English courtroom discourse (by Kryk-Kastovsky, Barbara); 14. "I desire to have some tyme to consider of it": A pragmaphilological approach to refusals and refutations in Modern-English trials (by Martinez-Insua, Ana E.); 15. Interactive aspects of computer-mediated communication: 'Disagreement' in an English and a German public news group (by Kleinke, Sonja); 16. 'A little story, for food for thought...': Narratives in advice discourse (by Lindholm, Loukia); 17. Part 4. Structures in interaction; 18. Appropriateness in interpersonal communication (by Sivenkova, Maria); 19. Filling the German vorfeld in written and spoken discourse (by Speyer, Augustin); 20. Phatic expressions in French and German telephone conversations (by Smith, Anja); 21. Index