Discourse analysis beyond the speech event / Stanton Wortham and Angela Reyes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wortham, Stanton, 1963- author.

Reyes, Angela, 1970- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discourse analysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (251 pages)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, New York : Routledge, [2021]

Summary:

In its first edition, winner of the 2016 Edward Sapir Book Prize from the Society for Linguistic Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association Discourse Analysis Beyond the Speech Event introduces a new approach to discourse analysis. In this innovative work, Wortham and Reyes argue that discourse analysts should look beyond fixed speech events and consider the development of discourses over time. Drawing on theories and methods from linguistic anthropology and related fields, this book is the first to present a systematic methodological approach to conducting discourse analysis of linked events, allowing researchers to understand not only individual events but also the patterns that emerge across them. This new edition: Draws on theories and methods from linguistic anthropology and related fields; Presents the first systematic methodological approach to doing discourse analysis of linked events; Provides easy-to-use tools and techniques for analyzing discourse both within and across events; Offers transparent procedures and clear illustrations to show how the approach can be applied to analyze three types of data: ethnographic, archival, and new media; Includes a new chapter focusing on the discourse analysis of contemporary nationalist new media data. Updated and revised for the second edition, this book is essential reading for advanced students and researchers working in the area of discourse analysis.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Table of Contents

List of figures

List of tables

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1 Discourse analysis across events

An example

Speech events and their contexts

Speech chains and enregisterment

Discourse analysis across events

Chapter 2 Central tools and techniques

Our approach to discourse analysis

The central example: Crying "racist" in classroom interaction

Phase 1: Mapping narrated events

Phase 2/Component 1: Selecting indexicals

Phase 2/Component 2: Construing indexicals

Phase 2/Component 3: Configuring indexicals

Across events

A second example: Crying "racist" in classroom interaction again

Other examples: Crying "racist" in mass media

Chapter 3 Discourse analysis of ethnographic data

Example 1: Maurice

Example 2: Nicknames

Chapter 4 Discourse analysis of archival data

Example 1: Japanese women's language

Example 2: Irish English accent

Conclusion

Chapter 5 Discourse analysis of new media data

Example 1: Internet commentary

Example 2: Video storytelling

Chapter 6 Discourse analysis of contemporary nationalist new media

Example 1: Racialized nationalism in Italy

Example 2: Right-wing political discourse in the U.S.

Chapter 7 Conclusions

Discourse analysis of discrete events

Cross-event processes

Discourse analysis across pathways of linked events

Heterogeneous pathways

Beyond micro and macro to contingent, heterogeneous networks

Appendix A: Transcription conventions

Appendix B: Abbreviations of names in Wortham transcripts

References

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-00-304970-2

1-003-04970-2

1-000-24525-X

9781003049708

OCLC:

1163958190

Publisher Number:

10.4324/9781003049708