Working with Spoken Discourse

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SAGE, May 25, 2001 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 206 pages

Working with Spoken Discourse provides a comprehensive account of the expanding multidisciplinary field of discourse analysis. Combining theory and practice it covers a wide range of material in a lively and accessible style. It discusses current approaches, concepts and debates in the field of spoken discourse and provides a grounding in the practical techniques of discourse analysis and how to apply them to real data.

 

Contents

an initial orientation
47
the ethnography of speaking
53
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59
pragmatics
68
Conversation Analysis
87
interactional sociolinguistics
106
Hidden agendas? Critical discourse analysis
123
Working with spoken discourse in social research
145
locating social relations in spoken
161
Designing your own projects
180
Bibliography
203
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About the author (2001)

Deborah Cameron teaches at Oxford University, where she is Professor of Language and Communication. Her main research interests are in sociolinguistics, discourse analysis and the study of gender and sexuality; her previous publications include Working with Spoken Discourse (2001) and Working with Written Discourse (with Ivan Panovic, 2014), Good to Talk? (2000), The Myth of Mars and Venus (2007), and Verbal Hygiene (1995/2012).