The Discourse Reader

In this bestselling Reader, Jaworski and Coupland have collected in one volume the most important and influential articles on discourse analysis. Designed as a structured sourcebook and divided into clear sections, The Discourse Reader covers the foundations of modern discourse analysis and represents all of its contemporary methods and traditions. The third edition: Has been revised and updated throughout to ensure a selection of up to date and accessible readings Includes new readings by Jan Blommaert, Norman Fairclough, James Paul Gee, Barbara Johnstone, Ron Scollon and Don Zimmerman, among others. Features papers by leading researchers commissioned especially for the new edition. The general introduction serves as an essential introduction to the field of discourse analysis, while the section introductions provide a useful overview and further insight into the readings. The third edition of The Discourse Reader is a key resource for all students of discourse analysis in a wide range of disciplines from linguistics to communication studies, anthropology and psychology.

Introduction: Perspectives on Discourse Analysis Part 1: Discourse: Meaning, Function and Context Editors’ Introduction 1 Roman Jakobson Linguistics and Poetics 2 J. L. Austin How to Do Things with Words 3 H. P. Grice Logic and Conversation 4 M. M. Bakhtin The Problem of Speech Genres 5 Norman Fairclough Social Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Text Analysis 6 Ron Scollon Modes and modality: The multimodal shaping of reality in public discourse. Part 2: Methods and Resources for Analysing Discourse Editors’ Introduction 7 Deborah Cameron, Elizabeth Fraser, Penelope Harvey, Ben Rampton and Kay Richardson Ethics, Advocacy and Empowerment 8 James Paul Gee Tools of Inquiry and Discourses 9 Wolfram Bublitz Cohesion and Coherence 10 Jenny Thomas Activity Types versus Speech Events 11 David Machin and Theo van Leeuwen Genre Analysis in Media Discourse Part 3: Sequence and Structure Editors’ Introduction 12 William Labov The Transformation of Experience in Narrative 13 Derek Edwards Narrative Analysis 14 Harvey Sacks On the Analyzability of Stories by Children 15 Emanuel A. Schegloff and Harvey Sacks Opening up Closings 16 Geoffrey Raymond and Jack Sidnell Conversation Analysis 17 Deborah Schiffrin Oh as a Marker of Information Management Part 4: Negotiating Social Relationships Editors’ Introduction 18 Bronislaw Malinowski On Phatic Communion 19 Erving Goffman On Face-work 20 Penelope Brown and Stephen C. Levinson Politeness: Some Universals in Language Usage 21 Deborah Tannen and Cynthia Wallat Interactive Frames and Knowledge Schemas in Interaction: Examples from a Medical Examination/Interview Part 5: Identity and Subjectivity Editors’ Introduction 22 Deborah Cameron Performing Gender Identity: Young Men’s Talk and the Construction of Heterosexual Masculinity 23 Don H. Zimmerman Identity, Context and Interaction 24 Barbara Johnstone Pittsburghese Shirts: Commodification and Enregisterment of an Urban Dialect 25 Gerlinde Mautner Signs of the Times: A Discourse Perspective on Public Signage, Urban Space and the Law Part 6: Power, Ideology and Control Editors’ Introduction 26 Pierre Bourdieu Language and Symbolic Power 27 Teun A van Dijk Discourse and the Denial of Racism 28 Ian Hutchby Power in Discourse: The Case of Arguments on a British Talk Radio Show 29 Hugh Mehan Oracular Reasoning in a Psychiatric Exam 30 Paul Baker and Tony McEnery ‘FIND THE DOCTORS OF DEATH’: The UK Press and the Issue of Foreign Doctors Working in the NHS, a Corpus-Based Approach 31 Crispin Thurlow Disciplining Youth: Language Ideologies and New Technologies 32 Jan Blommaert Orders of Indexicality and Polycentricity

Adam Jaworski is Professor at the University of Hong Kong. He is co-editor of Semiotic Landscapes: Language, Image, Space (2010) and co-author of Tourism Discourse: The Language of Global Mobility (2010). Nikolas Coupland is Research Professor at the University of Copenhagen and Distinguished Professor of Sociolinguistics at the University of Technology Sydney. He is editor of the Handbook of Language and Globalization (2010) and co-editor of Standard Languages and Language Standards in a Changing Europe (2011) with Tore Kristiansen.