Working with Spoken Discourse

Deborah Cameron teaches at Oxford University, where she is Professor of Language and Communication. Her main research interests are in sociolinguistics, discourse analysis and the study of gender and sexuality; her previous publications include Working with Spoken Discourse (2001) and Working with Written Discourse (with Ivan Panovic, 2014), Good to Talk? (2000),The Myth of Mars and Venus (2007), and Verbal Hygiene (1995/2012).

PART ONE: PRELIMINARIES What Is Discourse and Why Analyze It? Collecting Data Practical and Ethical Issues Transcribing Spoken Data PART TWO: APPROACHES Approaches to Discourse Analysis An Initial Orientation Situations and Events The Ethnography of Speaking Doing Things with Words Pragmatics Structure and Sequence Conversation Analysis Small Differences, Big Difference International Sociolinguistics Hidden Agenda? Critical Discourse Analysis PART THREE: APPLICATIONS Working with Talk in Social Research Identity, Difference and Power Locating Social Relations in Talk Designing Your Own Projects

Working with Spoken Discourse is an exemplary textbook. Making even the most complex ideas fully accessible, it is grounded in an extensive literature, filled with engaging examples, and offers ample suggestions for independent research. It's been a key text in my classes for over a decade and, as fresh and relevant as ever, will continue to buttress my graduate seminars and undergraduate courses alike. -- Professor Crispin Thurlow