Discourse Analysis

Barbara Johnstone is Professor of Rhetoric and Linguistics at Carnegie Mellon University. She is the author of Stories, Community, and Place (1990), Repetition in Arabic Discourse (1991), The Linguistic Individual (1996), and Qualitative Methods in Sociolinguistics (2000) as well as many articles, book chapters, and edited volumes.

List of Figures. Preface.1. Introduction:What is Discourse Analysis?Some Uses of Discourse Analysis.Facets of Discourse Analysis.Discourse and Text: The Data of Discourse Analysis.Transcription: Representing Speech in Writing."Descriptive" and "Critical" Goals.Summary.2. Discourse and World:Linguistic Categories, Minds, and Worldviews.Discourse, Culture, and Ideology.Language Ideology.Silence.Summary.3. Discourse Structure: Parts and Sequences:Words and Lines.Turns and Moves in Conversation.Paragraphs and Episodes.Discourse Schemata and the Structure of Narrative.The Emergent Organization of Conversation.Old and New Information and the Organization of Sentences.Cohesion .Structures and Rules.4. Speakers, Hearers, Audiences:Power, Solidarity, and Community.Social Roles and Discourse Roles.Audience, Politeness, and Accommodation.Attributed Identities and Situated Identifications.Agency and Self-Expression.Summary.5. Prior Texts, Prior Discourses:The Idea of IntertextualityRepetition in ConversationRegister: Repeated Styles for Repeated Situations.Genre: Recurrent Forms, Recurrent Actions.Plot and Coherence.Summary.6. Discourse and Medium:Early Work on "Orality and Literacy".Literacy and Literacies.Communication and Technology.Planning and Discourse Structure.Fixity, Fluidity, and Coherence.Medium and Interpersonal Relations.Summary.7. Discourse and Purpose:Speech Acts.Contextualization Cues and Discourse Marking.Rhetorical Aims, Strategies, and Styles.Verbal Art and Performance.Performances of Identity.Summary.8. Some General Themes:A Heuristic Approach to Discourse Analysis.Locations of Meaning.Discourse as Strategy, Discourse as Adaptation.Language and Languaging.Particularity, Theory, and Method.From Text Outward.Glossary.References.Index.