Approaches to Discourse Analysis
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In this groundbreaking collection, scholars within the field of linguistics and beyond offer discourse analyses in multiple languages, contexts, and modes, demonstrating the importance of the diverse perspectives that various approaches to discourse bring to bear on human communication.
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Cynthia Gordon uses theories and methods of discourse analysis to examine everyday social interactions in family, educational, and online and digital contexts. Author of Making Meanings, Creating Family, she was a 2012?13 fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. She is a coeditor of Family Talk and Identity and Ideology in Digital Food Discourse.
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Introduction
Cynthia Gordon
1. How Linguistic Anthropologists Conceptualize Relations among Different Forms of Discourse
Susan U. Philips
2. "Two Different Kinds of Life": A Cultural Analysis of Blackfeet Discourse
Donal Carbaugh and Eean Grimshaw
3. Gesture, Mimesis, and the Linguistics of Time
Jürgen Streeck
4. The Ambiguity and Polysemy of Power and Solidarity in Professor-Student Emails and Conversations among Friends
Deborah Tannen
5. What Do Discourse Markers Mark? Arabic yani (It Means) and Hebrew ya'ani across Modalities and Sociolinguistic Systems
Michal Marmorstein
6: Reconsidering the Concept of "Total Institutions" in Light of Interactional Sociolinguistics: The Meaning of the Marker "Here"
Branca Telles Ribeiro and Diana de Souza Pinto
7. The Expression of Authority in US Primary Care: Offering Diagnoses and Recommending Treatment
John Heritage
8. Semiotic Ideologies and Trial Discourse: Implications for Multimodal Discourse Analysis
Susan Ehrlich
9. Repair as Activism on Arabic Twitter
Najma Al Zidjaly
10. Online Political Trolling as Bakhtin's Carnival: Putin's "Discrowning" by Pro-Ukrainian Commenters
Alla V. Tovares
11. From Post-Truth to Post-Shame: Analyzing Far-Right Populist Rhetoric
Ruth Wodak
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