Discourse Analysis beyond the Speech Event
1st Edition
Published on 8. January 2015
Book
Hardback
196 pages
978-0-367-50376-5 (ISBN)
Description
Winner of the 2016 Edward Sapir Book Prize from the Society for Linguistic Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association
Discourse Analysis beyond the Speech Event introduces a new approach to discourse analysis. In this innovative work, Wortham and Reyes argue that discourse analysts should look beyond fixed speech events and consider the development of discourses over time. Drawing on theories and methods from linguistic anthropology and related fields, this book is the first to present a systematic methodological approach to conducting discourse analysis of linked events, allowing researchers to understand not only individual events but also the patterns that emerge across them.
Discourse Analysis beyond the Speech Event
Provides a method for detailed examination of speech, writing and other communication
Introduces students and researchers to the discourse analytic tools and techniques required to analyse the relationships between discourse events
Offers explicit guidelines that direct the reader through different stages of discourse analytic research, including worked examples from conversation, magazines and social media
Incorporates sample analyses from ethnographic, archival and new media data.
This book is essential reading for advanced students and researchers working in the area of discourse analysis.
Discourse Analysis beyond the Speech Event introduces a new approach to discourse analysis. In this innovative work, Wortham and Reyes argue that discourse analysts should look beyond fixed speech events and consider the development of discourses over time. Drawing on theories and methods from linguistic anthropology and related fields, this book is the first to present a systematic methodological approach to conducting discourse analysis of linked events, allowing researchers to understand not only individual events but also the patterns that emerge across them.
Discourse Analysis beyond the Speech Event
Provides a method for detailed examination of speech, writing and other communication
Introduces students and researchers to the discourse analytic tools and techniques required to analyse the relationships between discourse events
Offers explicit guidelines that direct the reader through different stages of discourse analytic research, including worked examples from conversation, magazines and social media
Incorporates sample analyses from ethnographic, archival and new media data.
This book is essential reading for advanced students and researchers working in the area of discourse analysis.
Reviews / Votes
In Discourse Analysis beyond the Speech Event Wortham and Reyes reassuringly and surefootedly lead the would-be student of social life to a sophisticated methodological place: being able to interpret an interaction as a moment of connected cultural practices, and being able to render the found artifacts of culture - print, digital, and otherwise - social sites that discursively interact. Drawing richly on their own and others' empirical materials, it is an achievement bespeaking the characteristic lucidity and virtuosity of its authors.Michael Silverstein, University of Chicago, USA
Discourse Analysis beyond the Speech Event provides a useful, clearly illustrated heuristic for anyone interested in seeing how social meaning emerges and circulates in and across interactions.
Barbara Johnstone, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Wortham and Reyes have developed a timely and much needed adjustment of discourse-analytical frameworks to the realities of transcontextual mobilities of texts, signs and meanings. Theoretically astute, technically sophisticated, yet written in an accessible way, this book must become a classic.
Jan Blommaert, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Undergraduate
Illustrations
7 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder, 26 s/w Zeichnungen
26 Line drawings, black and white; 7 Halftones, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-367-50376-5 (9780367503765)
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Stanton Wortham | Angela Reyes
Discourse Analysis beyond the Speech Event
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01/2015
1st Edition
Routledge
€185.70
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Stanton Wortham | Angela Reyes
Discourse Analysis beyond the Speech Event
Book
12/2014
1st Edition
Routledge
€69.51
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Persons
Stanton Wortham is Judy and Howard Berkowitz Professor at Penn GSE. He has written on classroom discourse and the linguistic anthropology of education, interactional positioning in media discourse and autobiographical narrative, and Mexican immigrant communities in the New Latino Diaspora.
Angela Reyes is Associate Professor of English (Linguistics) at Hunter College and Doctoral Faculty in Anthropology at The Graduate Center, CUNY. She has written on language and racialization, Asian American youth, and ideologies of mixed race/language in the Philippines.
Angela Reyes is Associate Professor of English (Linguistics) at Hunter College and Doctoral Faculty in Anthropology at The Graduate Center, CUNY. She has written on language and racialization, Asian American youth, and ideologies of mixed race/language in the Philippines.
Content
1 Discourse analysis across events
2 Central tools and techniques
3 Discourse analysis of ethnographic data
4 Discourse analysis of archival data
5 Discourse analysis of new media data
6 Conclusions
2 Central tools and techniques
3 Discourse analysis of ethnographic data
4 Discourse analysis of archival data
5 Discourse analysis of new media data
6 Conclusions