RSSCase Studies in Discourse Analysis
May 07
Title: Case Studies in Discourse Analysis
Series Title: LINCOM Studies in Pragmatics 29
Publication Year: 2016
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
http://www.lincom-shop.eu
Book URL: http://bit.ly/23vcDAW
Editor: Marcel Danesi
Author: Sara Greco Morasso
Hardback: ISBN: 9783862887095 Pages: 428 Price: Europe EURO 162.80
Abstract:
Discourse permeates human life, manifesting itself in all kinds of speech
acts, from conversations to clinical dialogues between a patient and
practitioner. While discourse has been studied within specific disciplines,
including linguistics, anthropology, and psychology, over the last few decades
an autonomous approach, known as Discourse Analysis, has emerged to develop
its own theoretical and research agendas aimed at penetrating the nature and
role of discourse in human life. This collection of case studies in discourse
aims to examine these agendas in specific situations, and thus to contribute
to the growing significance of this exciting field of inquiry. It thus
presents a composite picture of what discourse analysis is and what it allows
us to do in the area of speech analysis. The chapters deal with the kinds of
discourses that characterize medical communication, media and public
discourse, conflict resolution and reconciliation, juridical communication,
gastronomical language, text messaging, education, and others. Written by
active researchers in the fields of discourse analysis proper and its
correlative field of argumentation theory, both the expert and the neophyte
will be able to glean from the various chapters how this new discipline is
evolving and what it can achieve in shedding light on the complexities of
human interaction.
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