The discourse reader / edited by Adam Jaworski and Nikolas Coupland.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Linguistics and poetics / Roman Jakobson -- How to do things with words / J.L. Austin -- Logic and conversation / H.P. Grice -- The problem of speech genres / M.M. Bakhtin -- Social analysis, discourse analysis, text analysis / Norman Fairclough -- Modes and modality: the multimodal shaping of reality in public discourse / Ron Scollon -- Ethics, advocacy and empowerment / Deborah Cameron, Elizabeth Fraser, Penelope Harvey, Ben Rampton and Kay Richardson -- Tools of inquiry and discourses / James Paul Gee -- Cohesion and coherence / Wolfram Bublitz -- Activity types versus speech events / Jenny Thomas -- Genre analysis in media discourse / David Machin and Theo van Leeuwen -- The transformation of experience in narrative / William Labov -- Narrative analysis / Derek Edwards -- On the analyzability of stories by children / Harvey Sacks -- Opening up closings / Emanuel A. Schegloff and Harvey Sacks -- Conversation analysis / Geoffrey Raymond and Jack Sidnell -- Oh as a marker of information management / Deborah Schiffrin -- On phatic communion / Bronislaw Malinowski -- On face-work / Erving Goffman -- Politeness: some universals in language usage / Penelope Brown and Stephen C. Levinson -- Interactive frames and knowledge schemas in interaction: examples from a medical examination/interview / Deborah Tannen and Cynthia Wallat -- Performing gender identity: young men's talk and the construction of heterosexual masculinity / Deborah Cameron -- Identity, context and interaction / Don H. Zimmerman -- Pittsburghese shirts: commodification and enregisterment of an urban dialect / Barbara Johnstone -- Signs of the times: a discourse perspective on public signage, urban space and the law / Gerlinde Mautner -- Language and symbolic power / Pierre Bourdieu -- Discourse and the denial of racism / Teun A van Dijk -- Power in discourse: the case of arguments on a British talk radio show / Ian Hutchby -- Oracular reasoning in a psychiatric exam / Hugh Mehan -- 'FIND THE DOCTORS OF DEATH': the UK press and the issue of foreign doctors working in the NHS, a corpus-based approach / Paul Baker and Tony McEnery -- Disciplining youth: language ideologies and new technologies / Crispin Thurlow -- Orders of indexicality and polycentricity / Jan Blommaert.

The Discourse Reader is the first comprehensive collection of important, original writings on discourse analysis. Designed as a structured source book for students from introductory undergraduate level upwards, the Reader is divided into clear sections covering the foundations of modern discourse analysis. It represents all the contemporary methods and traditions of discourse analysis, including pragmatics, conversation analysis, the ethnography of communication, narrative analysis and critical discourse analysis. Each section is introduced by the editors, and provides recommendations for further reading. The Discourse Reader is an indispensible introduction to the theoretical writings of: Foucault, Bourdieu, Bakhtin, Giddens, Goffman, Austin, Grice, Malinowski, Watzlawick, Gumperz, Sacks, Schegloff, Sperber and Wilson, Fairclough, Labov and others. It represents the best examples of discourse analysis, for example, in the work of Potter and Wetherall, Duranti, Ochs, Bell, Schiffrin, Sherzer, Brown and Levinson, Holmes, Bauman, Tannen and Wallat, Kress and van Leeuwen, Cameron, Mehan, van Dijk