Discourse Studies

Teun A. van Dijk is a Visiting Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. From 1980 to 2006 he held a personal chair as Professor of Discourse Studies at the University of Amsterdam. A world leading scholar of discourse studies and author of over 250 books and articles, he edits the SAGE journals Disourse & Society, Discourse Studies, and Discourse and Communication.

Interviewing Persons with a Learning Disability - C Antaki How Setting Lower Standards May Inflate Well-Being Scores Listeners as Co-Narrators - J B Bavelas, L Coates and T Johnson Discourse Studies and the Ideology of 'Liberalism' - R De Beaugrande The Discourse Structure of News Stories - A Bell Crossing Genders, Mixing Languages - N Besnier The Linguistic Construction of Transgenderism in Tonga The Power and Politics of Genre - V Bhatia Styles of Stance in English - D Biber and E Finegan Lexical and Grammatical Marking of Evidentiality and Affect The Dialogic Unconscious - M Billig Psychoanalysis, Discursive Psychology and the Nature of Repression Investigating Narrative Inequality - J Blommaert African Asylum Seekers' Stories in Belgium The Dynamics of Political Interviews - S Blum-Kulka Dialogue and Confrontation in Venezuelan Political Interaction - A Bolivar Man in the News - C R Caldas-Coulthard The Misrepresentation of Women Speaking in News as Narrative Discourse Role and Position of Scientific Voices Speech in the Media - H Calsamiglia and C L Ferrero Relativity and Its Discontents - D Cameron Language, Gender and Pragmatics The Analysis of Discourse Flow - W Chafe Missing Links in Mainstream CDA - P Chilton The Interpretation of Communicative Contexts - A Cicourel Examples from Medical Encounters Answers and Evasions - S E Clayman Author Identification, Idiolect and Linguistic Uniqueness - M Coulthard Bodies, Beaches and Burn-Times - N Coupland and J Coupland 'Environmentalism' and Its Discursive Competitors Pro-Faced Receipts of Teases - P Drew Universal and Culture-Specific Properties of Greetings - A Duranti Moaning, Whinging and Laughing - D Edwards The Subjective Side of Complaints Trial Discourse and Judicial Decision-Making - S Ehrlich Constraining the Boundaries of Gendered Identities Is Sybil There? The Structure of Some American English Directives - S Ervin-Tripp Discourse, Social Theory and Social Research - N Fairclough The Discourse of Welfare Reform The Discourse of Colonial Withdrawal - J Flowerdew A Case Study in the Creation of Mythic Discourse Resources and Repair - B A Fox, M Hayashi and R Jasperson A Cross-Linguistic Study of Syntax and Repair Pragmatic Markers - B Fraser Coherence in Text versus Coherence in Mind - T Giv[ac]on Action and Embodiment within Situated Human Interaction - C Goodwin Constructing Inferences during Narrative Text Comprehension - A C Graesser, M Singer and T Trabasso Space - P Graham Irrealis Objects in Technology Policy and Their Role in a New Political Economy Medical Discourse - B-L Gunnarsson Sociohistorical Construction Tactical Uses of Stories - M H Harness Goodwin Participation Frameworks within Girls' and Boys' Disputes The Terms of Agreement - J Heritage and G Raymond Indexing Epistemic Authority and Subordination in Talk-in-Interaction Politeness, Power and Provocation - J Holmes How Humour Functions in the Workplace Stance and Engagement - K Hyland A Model of Interaction in Academic Discourse When Talk Isn't Cheap - J Irvine Language and Political Economy Political Discourse - S J[um]ager The Language of Right and Left in Germany The Uses and Representations of Local Languages in Tourist Destinations - A Jaworski et al A View from British TV Holiday Programmes Notes on 'Latency' in Overlap Onset - G Jefferson Sociolinguistic Resources, Individual Identities and Public Speech Styles of Texas Women - B Johnstone The Role of Knowledge in Discourse Comprehension - W Kintsch A Construction-Integration Model Heteronormativity in Action - C Kitzinger Reproducing the Heterosexual Nuclear Family in After-Hours Medical Calls Oral Genres of Humor - H Kotthoff Against Arbitrariness - G Kress The Social Production of the Sign as a Foundational Issue in Critical Discourse Analysis Narrative Analysis - William Labov and Joshua Waletzky Oral Versions of Personal Experience Gender, Discourse and Semiotics - M Lazar The Politics of Parenthood Representations Reconstructing Topical Sensitivity - P Linell and M Bredmar Aspects of Face-Work in Talks between Midwives and Expectant Mothers The Body Literate - A Luke Discourse and Inscription in Early Literacy Training You Know, It Depends - R K S Macaulay Analyzing Self-Constituting Discourses - D Maingueneau Grace - J R Martin The Logogenesis of Freedom Division and Rejection - Rojo L Mart[ac]in From the Personification of the Gulf Conflict to the Demonization of Saddam Hussein The News Delivery Sequence - D W Maynard Bad News and Good News in Conversational Interaction Temporalit[ac]e, S[ac]equentialit[ac]e et Multimodalit[ac]e au Fondement de l'Organisation de l'Interaction - L Mondada Le Pointage comme Pratique de Prise du Tour The Political Function of Narrative in Organizations - D Mumby Talking to Children in Western Samoa - E Ochs Nominal and Temporal Anaphora - B H Partee The Organization of Ideological Diversity in Discourse - S Philips Modern and Neotraditional Visions of the Tongan State Argumentation Studies and Discourse Analysis - M Plantin The French Situation and Global Perspectives Extreme Case Formulations - A Pomerantz A Way of Legitimizing Claims Discursive Social Psychology - J Potter From Attitudes to Evaluative Practices Were You Ever in a Situation Where You Were in Serious Danger of Being Killed? Narrator-Listener Interaction in Labov and Waletzky's Narratives - U Quasthoff Confirming Allusions - E A Schegloff Toward an Empirical Account of Action Narrative as Self-Portrait - D Schiffrin Sociolinguistic Constructions of Identity The Discourses of Food in the World System - R Scollon Toward a Nexus Analysis of a World Problem A Discourse-Centered Approach to Language and Culture - J Sherzer Linguistics as Metaphor - Shi-Xu Analyzing the Discursive Ontology of the Object of Linguistic Inquiry The Writing of Research Article Introductions - J Swales and H Najjar The Relativity of Linguistic Strategies - D Tannen Rethinking Power and Solidarity in Gender and Dominance Talk and Institution - P Ten Have A Reconsideration of the 'Asymmetry' of Doctor-Patient Interaction Principal, Plausibility and the Historic Present - J Thornborrow The Construction of Conflicting Accounts in Public Participation TV The Clause as a Locus of Grammar and Interaction - S A Thompson and E Couper-Kuhlen The O J Simpson Case as an Exercise in Narrative Analysis - R Tolmach Lakoff The Identity Work of Questioning in Intellectual Discussion - K Tracy and J Naughton Discourse and the Denial of Racism - T A Van Dijk Strategic Maneuvering - F H Van Eemeren and P Houtlosser Maintaining a Delicate Balance The Representation of Social Actor - T Van Leeuwen Predicaments of Criticism - J Verschueren Positioning and Interpretative Repertoires - M Wetherell Conversation Analysis and Post-Structuralism in Dialogue Daily Political Communication and Argumentation in Direct Democracy - U Windisch Advocates and Opponents of Nuclear Energy Turning the Tables - R Wodak Antisemitic Discourse in Post-War Austria