A groundbreaking collection by leading scholars that spans a broad range of social situations, cultural contexts, and analytic perspectives The contemporary landscape of discourse analysis-which examines spoken, written, and multimodal communication-is so diverse that, as linguist Deborah Tannen observes, "discourse" has become almost synonymous with "language" and, for many scholars, extends well beyond it. The ways in which we communicate grow and change and so do approaches to discourse analysis along with the diversity of topics, analytic contexts, and disciplinary foundations. How do we conceptualize discourse? What are the various approaches to studying it? And how can we put these approaches into dialogue? Scholars within the field of linguistics and beyond contribute to this volume with discourse analyses in multiple languages, contexts, and modes. These snapshots show the different ways language is used in modern social situations-from email messages between professors and students, to Twitter activism, to political trolling on online news articles, to video-chats between US doctors and patients. Collectively, they highlight the diversity and complexity of the field. Across these varied approaches, what emerges is a common understanding of communication as fundamentally connected to human agency and creativity and as embedded in and constitutive of our social and cultural worlds. Approaches to Discourse Analysis demonstrates the importance of the diverse perspectives that various approaches to discourse bring to bear on human communication. Linguists and other readers interested in the interplay of language and culture will gain new insight and understanding from this rich compilation.
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.
Contents Illustrations Acknowledgments IntroductionCynthia Gordon 1. How Linguistic Anthropologists Conceptualize Relations among Different Forms of DiscourseSusan 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 Jurgen 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 ya ni (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 Contributor Bios Index
