Discourse Studies

Number Of Volumes: 5
Teun A. van Dijk - Pompeu Fabra University, Spain; Centre of Discourse Studies, Spain
September 2007 | 2128 pages | Sage UK
Create Flyer

Purchase

Hardcover
ISBN: 9781412936170
Available from January 0001

Description

In the mid-1960s the humanities and the social sciences witnessed a paradigm shift with the birth of several new but mutually related 'interdisciplines', including semiotics, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, pragmatics as well as the study of discourse. This became the 'linguistic turn'.

The articles collected in the volumes of this book are prominent contributions to the latter field of study, traditionally called 'discourse analysis', but more appropriately labeled 'discourse studies'.

Assembled by Teun van Dijk, a leading scholar in discourse studies, the collection covers all the major fields of discourse studies, including grammar, stylistics, conversation analysis, narrative analysis, argumentation, psychology of comprehension, ethnography of speaking, and media. With over 80 articles, it brings together classic texts and work from the top scholars in the field to reflect all the significant debates in the field.

Contents

Interviewing Persons with a Learning Disability

  • How Setting Lower Standards May Inflate Well-Being Scores

Listeners as Co-Narrators

Listeners as Co-Narrators

Discourse Studies and the Ideology of 'Liberalism'

Discourse Studies and the Ideology of 'Liberalism'

The Discourse Structure of News Stories

The Discourse Structure of News Stories

Crossing Genders, Mixing Languages

  • The Linguistic Construction of Transgenderism in Tonga

The Power and Politics of Genre

The Power and Politics of Genre

Styles of Stance in English

  • Lexical and Grammatical Marking of Evidentiality and Affect

The Dialogic Unconscious

  • Psychoanalysis, Discursive Psychology and the Nature of Repression

Investigating Narrative Inequality

  • African Asylum Seekers' Stories in Belgium

The Dynamics of Political Interviews

The Dynamics of Political Interviews

Dialogue and Confrontation in Venezuelan Political Interaction

Dialogue and Confrontation in Venezuelan Political Interaction

Man in the News

  • The Misrepresentation of Women Speaking in News as Narrative Discourse

Role and Position of Scientific Voices Speech in the Media

Role and Position of Scientific Voices Speech in the Media

Relativity and Its Discontents

  • Language, Gender and Pragmatics

The Analysis of Discourse Flow

The Analysis of Discourse Flow

Missing Links in Mainstream CDA

Missing Links in Mainstream CDA

The Interpretation of Communicative Contexts

  • Examples from Medical Encounters

Answers and Evasions

Answers and Evasions

Author Identification, Idiolect and Linguistic Uniqueness

Author Identification, Idiolect and Linguistic Uniqueness

Bodies, Beaches and Burn-Times

  • 'Environmentalism' and Its Discursive Competitors

Pro-Faced Receipts of Teases

Pro-Faced Receipts of Teases

Universal and Culture-Specific Properties of Greetings

Universal and Culture-Specific Properties of Greetings

Moaning, Whinging and Laughing

  • The Subjective Side of Complaints

Trial Discourse and Judicial Decision-Making

  • Constraining the Boundaries of Gendered Identities

Is Sybil There? The Structure of Some American English Directives

Is Sybil There? The Structure of Some American English Directives

Discourse, Social Theory and Social Research

  • The Discourse of Welfare Reform

The Discourse of Colonial Withdrawal

  • A Case Study in the Creation of Mythic Discourse

Resources and Repair

  • A Cross-Linguistic Study of Syntax and Repair

Pragmatic Markers

Pragmatic Markers

Coherence in Text versus Coherence in Mind

Coherence in Text versus Coherence in Mind

Action and Embodiment within Situated Human Interaction

Action and Embodiment within Situated Human Interaction

Constructing Inferences during Narrative Text Comprehension

Constructing Inferences during Narrative Text Comprehension

Space

  • Irrealis Objects in Technology Policy and Their Role in a New Political Economy

Medical Discourse

  • Sociohistorical Construction

Tactical Uses of Stories

  • Participation Frameworks within Girls' and Boys' Disputes

The Terms of Agreement

  • Indexing Epistemic Authority and Subordination in Talk-in-Interaction

Politeness, Power and Provocation

  • How Humour Functions in the Workplace

Stance and Engagement

  • A Model of Interaction in Academic Discourse

When Talk Isn't Cheap

  • Language and Political Economy

Political Discourse

  • The Language of Right and Left in Germany

The Uses and Representations of Local Languages in Tourist Destinations

  • A View from British TV Holiday Programmes

Notes on 'Latency' in Overlap Onset

Notes on 'Latency' in Overlap Onset

Sociolinguistic Resources, Individual Identities and Public Speech Styles of Texas Women

Sociolinguistic Resources, Individual Identities and Public Speech Styles of Texas Women

The Role of Knowledge in Discourse Comprehension

  • A Construction-Integration Model

Heteronormativity in Action

  • Reproducing the Heterosexual Nuclear Family in After-Hours Medical Calls

Oral Genres of Humor

Oral Genres of Humor

Against Arbitrariness

  • The Social Production of the Sign as a Foundational Issue in Critical Discourse Analysis

Narrative Analysis

  • Oral Versions of Personal Experience

Gender, Discourse and Semiotics

  • The Politics of Parenthood Representations

Reconstructing Topical Sensitivity

  • Aspects of Face-Work in Talks between Midwives and Expectant Mothers

The Body Literate

  • Discourse and Inscription in Early Literacy Training

You Know, It Depends

You Know, It Depends

Analyzing Self-Constituting Discourses

Analyzing Self-Constituting Discourses

Grace

  • The Logogenesis of Freedom

Division and Rejection

  • From the Personification of the Gulf Conflict to the Demonization of Saddam Hussein

The News Delivery Sequence

  • Bad News and Good News in Conversational Interaction

Temporalit[ac]e, S[ac]equentialit[ac]e et Multimodalit[ac]e au Fondement de l'Organisation de l'Interaction

  • Le Pointage comme Pratique de Prise du Tour

The Political Function of Narrative in Organizations

The Political Function of Narrative in Organizations

Talking to Children in Western Samoa

Talking to Children in Western Samoa

Nominal and Temporal Anaphora

Nominal and Temporal Anaphora

The Organization of Ideological Diversity in Discourse

  • Modern and Neotraditional Visions of the Tongan State

Argumentation Studies and Discourse Analysis

  • The French Situation and Global Perspectives

Extreme Case Formulations

  • A Way of Legitimizing Claims

Discursive Social Psychology

  • From Attitudes to Evaluative Practices

Were You Ever in a Situation Where You Were in Serious Danger of Being Killed? Narrator-Listener Interaction in Labov and Waletzky's Narratives

Were You Ever in a Situation Where You Were in Serious Danger of Being Killed? Narrator-Listener Interaction in Labov and Waletzky's Narratives

Confirming Allusions

  • Toward an Empirical Account of Action

Narrative as Self-Portrait

  • Sociolinguistic Constructions of Identity

The Discourses of Food in the World System

  • Toward a Nexus Analysis of a World Problem

A Discourse-Centered Approach to Language and Culture

A Discourse-Centered Approach to Language and Culture

Linguistics as Metaphor

  • Analyzing the Discursive Ontology of the Object of Linguistic Inquiry

The Writing of Research Article Introductions

The Writing of Research Article Introductions

The Relativity of Linguistic Strategies

  • Rethinking Power and Solidarity in Gender and Dominance

Talk and Institution

  • A Reconsideration of the 'Asymmetry' of Doctor-Patient Interaction

Principal, Plausibility and the Historic Present

  • The Construction of Conflicting Accounts in Public Participation TV

The Clause as a Locus of Grammar and Interaction

The Clause as a Locus of Grammar and Interaction

The O J Simpson Case as an Exercise in Narrative Analysis

The O J Simpson Case as an Exercise in Narrative Analysis

The Identity Work of Questioning in Intellectual Discussion

The Identity Work of Questioning in Intellectual Discussion

Discourse and the Denial of Racism

Discourse and the Denial of Racism

Strategic Maneuvering

  • Maintaining a Delicate Balance

The Representation of Social Actor

The Representation of Social Actor

Predicaments of Criticism

Predicaments of Criticism

Positioning and Interpretative Repertoires

  • Conversation Analysis and Post-Structuralism in Dialogue

Daily Political Communication and Argumentation in Direct Democracy

  • Advocates and Opponents of Nuclear Energy

Turning the Tables

  • Antisemitic Discourse in Post-War Austria

Description

In the mid-1960s the humanities and the social sciences witnessed a paradigm shift with the birth of several new but mutually related 'interdisciplines', including semiotics, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, pragmatics as well as the study of discourse. This became the 'linguistic turn'.

The articles collected in the volumes of this book are prominent contributions to the latter field of study, traditionally called 'discourse analysis', but more appropriately labeled 'discourse studies'.

Assembled by Teun van Dijk, a leading scholar in discourse studies, the collection covers all the major fields of discourse studies, including grammar, stylistics, conversation analysis, narrative analysis, argumentation, psychology of comprehension, ethnography of speaking, and media. With over 80 articles, it brings together classic texts and work from the top scholars in the field to reflect all the significant debates in the field.

Contents

Interviewing Persons with a Learning Disability

  • How Setting Lower Standards May Inflate Well-Being Scores

Listeners as Co-Narrators

Listeners as Co-Narrators

Discourse Studies and the Ideology of 'Liberalism'

Discourse Studies and the Ideology of 'Liberalism'

The Discourse Structure of News Stories

The Discourse Structure of News Stories

Crossing Genders, Mixing Languages

  • The Linguistic Construction of Transgenderism in Tonga

The Power and Politics of Genre

The Power and Politics of Genre

Styles of Stance in English

  • Lexical and Grammatical Marking of Evidentiality and Affect

The Dialogic Unconscious

  • Psychoanalysis, Discursive Psychology and the Nature of Repression

Investigating Narrative Inequality

  • African Asylum Seekers' Stories in Belgium

The Dynamics of Political Interviews

The Dynamics of Political Interviews

Dialogue and Confrontation in Venezuelan Political Interaction

Dialogue and Confrontation in Venezuelan Political Interaction

Man in the News

  • The Misrepresentation of Women Speaking in News as Narrative Discourse

Role and Position of Scientific Voices Speech in the Media

Role and Position of Scientific Voices Speech in the Media

Relativity and Its Discontents

  • Language, Gender and Pragmatics

The Analysis of Discourse Flow

The Analysis of Discourse Flow

Missing Links in Mainstream CDA

Missing Links in Mainstream CDA

The Interpretation of Communicative Contexts

  • Examples from Medical Encounters

Answers and Evasions

Answers and Evasions

Author Identification, Idiolect and Linguistic Uniqueness

Author Identification, Idiolect and Linguistic Uniqueness

Bodies, Beaches and Burn-Times

  • 'Environmentalism' and Its Discursive Competitors

Pro-Faced Receipts of Teases

Pro-Faced Receipts of Teases

Universal and Culture-Specific Properties of Greetings

Universal and Culture-Specific Properties of Greetings

Moaning, Whinging and Laughing

  • The Subjective Side of Complaints

Trial Discourse and Judicial Decision-Making

  • Constraining the Boundaries of Gendered Identities

Is Sybil There? The Structure of Some American English Directives

Is Sybil There? The Structure of Some American English Directives

Discourse, Social Theory and Social Research

  • The Discourse of Welfare Reform

The Discourse of Colonial Withdrawal

  • A Case Study in the Creation of Mythic Discourse

Resources and Repair

  • A Cross-Linguistic Study of Syntax and Repair

Pragmatic Markers

Pragmatic Markers

Coherence in Text versus Coherence in Mind

Coherence in Text versus Coherence in Mind

Action and Embodiment within Situated Human Interaction

Action and Embodiment within Situated Human Interaction

Constructing Inferences during Narrative Text Comprehension

Constructing Inferences during Narrative Text Comprehension

Space

  • Irrealis Objects in Technology Policy and Their Role in a New Political Economy

Medical Discourse

  • Sociohistorical Construction

Tactical Uses of Stories

  • Participation Frameworks within Girls' and Boys' Disputes

The Terms of Agreement

  • Indexing Epistemic Authority and Subordination in Talk-in-Interaction

Politeness, Power and Provocation

  • How Humour Functions in the Workplace

Stance and Engagement

  • A Model of Interaction in Academic Discourse

When Talk Isn't Cheap

  • Language and Political Economy

Political Discourse

  • The Language of Right and Left in Germany

The Uses and Representations of Local Languages in Tourist Destinations

  • A View from British TV Holiday Programmes

Notes on 'Latency' in Overlap Onset

Notes on 'Latency' in Overlap Onset

Sociolinguistic Resources, Individual Identities and Public Speech Styles of Texas Women

Sociolinguistic Resources, Individual Identities and Public Speech Styles of Texas Women

The Role of Knowledge in Discourse Comprehension

  • A Construction-Integration Model

Heteronormativity in Action

  • Reproducing the Heterosexual Nuclear Family in After-Hours Medical Calls

Oral Genres of Humor

Oral Genres of Humor

Against Arbitrariness

  • The Social Production of the Sign as a Foundational Issue in Critical Discourse Analysis

Narrative Analysis

  • Oral Versions of Personal Experience

Gender, Discourse and Semiotics

  • The Politics of Parenthood Representations

Reconstructing Topical Sensitivity

  • Aspects of Face-Work in Talks between Midwives and Expectant Mothers

The Body Literate

  • Discourse and Inscription in Early Literacy Training

You Know, It Depends

You Know, It Depends

Analyzing Self-Constituting Discourses

Analyzing Self-Constituting Discourses

Grace

  • The Logogenesis of Freedom

Division and Rejection

  • From the Personification of the Gulf Conflict to the Demonization of Saddam Hussein

The News Delivery Sequence

  • Bad News and Good News in Conversational Interaction

Temporalit[ac]e, S[ac]equentialit[ac]e et Multimodalit[ac]e au Fondement de l'Organisation de l'Interaction

  • Le Pointage comme Pratique de Prise du Tour

The Political Function of Narrative in Organizations

The Political Function of Narrative in Organizations

Talking to Children in Western Samoa

Talking to Children in Western Samoa

Nominal and Temporal Anaphora

Nominal and Temporal Anaphora

The Organization of Ideological Diversity in Discourse

  • Modern and Neotraditional Visions of the Tongan State

Argumentation Studies and Discourse Analysis

  • The French Situation and Global Perspectives

Extreme Case Formulations

  • A Way of Legitimizing Claims

Discursive Social Psychology

  • From Attitudes to Evaluative Practices

Were You Ever in a Situation Where You Were in Serious Danger of Being Killed? Narrator-Listener Interaction in Labov and Waletzky's Narratives

Were You Ever in a Situation Where You Were in Serious Danger of Being Killed? Narrator-Listener Interaction in Labov and Waletzky's Narratives

Confirming Allusions

  • Toward an Empirical Account of Action

Narrative as Self-Portrait

  • Sociolinguistic Constructions of Identity

The Discourses of Food in the World System

  • Toward a Nexus Analysis of a World Problem

A Discourse-Centered Approach to Language and Culture

A Discourse-Centered Approach to Language and Culture

Linguistics as Metaphor

  • Analyzing the Discursive Ontology of the Object of Linguistic Inquiry

The Writing of Research Article Introductions

The Writing of Research Article Introductions

The Relativity of Linguistic Strategies

  • Rethinking Power and Solidarity in Gender and Dominance

Talk and Institution

  • A Reconsideration of the 'Asymmetry' of Doctor-Patient Interaction

Principal, Plausibility and the Historic Present

  • The Construction of Conflicting Accounts in Public Participation TV

The Clause as a Locus of Grammar and Interaction

The Clause as a Locus of Grammar and Interaction

The O J Simpson Case as an Exercise in Narrative Analysis

The O J Simpson Case as an Exercise in Narrative Analysis

The Identity Work of Questioning in Intellectual Discussion

The Identity Work of Questioning in Intellectual Discussion

Discourse and the Denial of Racism

Discourse and the Denial of Racism

Strategic Maneuvering

  • Maintaining a Delicate Balance

The Representation of Social Actor

The Representation of Social Actor

Predicaments of Criticism

Predicaments of Criticism

Positioning and Interpretative Repertoires

  • Conversation Analysis and Post-Structuralism in Dialogue

Daily Political Communication and Argumentation in Direct Democracy

  • Advocates and Opponents of Nuclear Energy

Turning the Tables

  • Antisemitic Discourse in Post-War Austria
SAGE Publishing Logo

Discourse Studies


September 2007 | 2128 pages | Sage UK

Format Published Date ISBN Price
Hardcover 31/03/2026 9781412936170 $1573.00

In the mid-1960s the humanities and the social sciences witnessed a paradigm shift with the birth of several new but mutually related 'interdisciplines', including semiotics, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, pragmatics as well as the study of discourse. This became the 'linguistic turn'.

The articles collected in the volumes of this book are prominent contributions to the latter field of study, traditionally called 'discourse analysis', but more appropriately labeled 'discourse studies'.

Assembled by Teun van Dijk, a leading scholar in discourse studies, the collection covers all the major fields of discourse studies, including grammar, stylistics, conversation analysis, narrative analysis, argumentation, psychology of comprehension, ethnography of speaking, and media. With over 80 articles, it brings together classic texts and work from the top scholars in the field to reflect all the significant debates in the field.


Table Of Contents:

  • Interviewing Persons with a Learning Disability
  • How Setting Lower Standards May Inflate Well-Being Scores
  • Listeners as Co-Narrators
  • Discourse Studies and the Ideology of 'Liberalism'
  • The Discourse Structure of News Stories
  • Crossing Genders, Mixing Languages
  • The Linguistic Construction of Transgenderism in Tonga
  • The Power and Politics of Genre
  • Styles of Stance in English
  • Lexical and Grammatical Marking of Evidentiality and Affect
  • The Dialogic Unconscious
  • Psychoanalysis, Discursive Psychology and the Nature of Repression
  • Investigating Narrative Inequality
  • African Asylum Seekers' Stories in Belgium
  • The Dynamics of Political Interviews
  • Dialogue and Confrontation in Venezuelan Political Interaction
  • Man in the News
  • The Misrepresentation of Women Speaking in News as Narrative Discourse
  • Role and Position of Scientific Voices Speech in the Media
  • Relativity and Its Discontents
  • Language, Gender and Pragmatics
  • The Analysis of Discourse Flow
  • Missing Links in Mainstream CDA
  • The Interpretation of Communicative Contexts
  • Examples from Medical Encounters
  • Answers and Evasions
  • Author Identification, Idiolect and Linguistic Uniqueness
  • Bodies, Beaches and Burn-Times
  • 'Environmentalism' and Its Discursive Competitors
  • Pro-Faced Receipts of Teases
  • Universal and Culture-Specific Properties of Greetings
  • Moaning, Whinging and Laughing
  • The Subjective Side of Complaints
  • Trial Discourse and Judicial Decision-Making
  • Constraining the Boundaries of Gendered Identities
  • Is Sybil There? The Structure of Some American English Directives
  • Discourse, Social Theory and Social Research
  • The Discourse of Welfare Reform
  • The Discourse of Colonial Withdrawal
  • A Case Study in the Creation of Mythic Discourse
  • Resources and Repair
  • A Cross-Linguistic Study of Syntax and Repair
  • Pragmatic Markers
  • Coherence in Text versus Coherence in Mind
  • Action and Embodiment within Situated Human Interaction
  • Constructing Inferences during Narrative Text Comprehension
  • Space
  • Irrealis Objects in Technology Policy and Their Role in a New Political Economy
  • Medical Discourse
  • Sociohistorical Construction
  • Tactical Uses of Stories
  • Participation Frameworks within Girls' and Boys' Disputes
  • The Terms of Agreement
  • Indexing Epistemic Authority and Subordination in Talk-in-Interaction
  • Politeness, Power and Provocation
  • How Humour Functions in the Workplace
  • Stance and Engagement
  • A Model of Interaction in Academic Discourse
  • When Talk Isn't Cheap
  • Language and Political Economy
  • Political Discourse
  • The Language of Right and Left in Germany
  • The Uses and Representations of Local Languages in Tourist Destinations
  • A View from British TV Holiday Programmes
  • Notes on 'Latency' in Overlap Onset
  • Sociolinguistic Resources, Individual Identities and Public Speech Styles of Texas Women
  • The Role of Knowledge in Discourse Comprehension
  • A Construction-Integration Model
  • Heteronormativity in Action
  • Reproducing the Heterosexual Nuclear Family in After-Hours Medical Calls
  • Oral Genres of Humor
  • Against Arbitrariness
  • The Social Production of the Sign as a Foundational Issue in Critical Discourse Analysis
  • Narrative Analysis
  • Oral Versions of Personal Experience
  • Gender, Discourse and Semiotics
  • The Politics of Parenthood Representations
  • Reconstructing Topical Sensitivity
  • Aspects of Face-Work in Talks between Midwives and Expectant Mothers
  • The Body Literate
  • Discourse and Inscription in Early Literacy Training
  • You Know, It Depends
  • Analyzing Self-Constituting Discourses
  • Grace
  • The Logogenesis of Freedom
  • Division and Rejection
  • From the Personification of the Gulf Conflict to the Demonization of Saddam Hussein
  • The News Delivery Sequence
  • Bad News and Good News in Conversational Interaction
  • Temporalit[ac]e, S[ac]equentialit[ac]e et Multimodalit[ac]e au Fondement de l'Organisation de l'Interaction
  • Le Pointage comme Pratique de Prise du Tour
  • The Political Function of Narrative in Organizations
  • Talking to Children in Western Samoa
  • Nominal and Temporal Anaphora
  • The Organization of Ideological Diversity in Discourse
  • Modern and Neotraditional Visions of the Tongan State
  • Argumentation Studies and Discourse Analysis
  • The French Situation and Global Perspectives
  • Extreme Case Formulations
  • A Way of Legitimizing Claims
  • Discursive Social Psychology
  • From Attitudes to Evaluative Practices
  • Were You Ever in a Situation Where You Were in Serious Danger of Being Killed? Narrator-Listener Interaction in Labov and Waletzky's Narratives
  • Confirming Allusions
  • Toward an Empirical Account of Action
  • Narrative as Self-Portrait
  • Sociolinguistic Constructions of Identity
  • The Discourses of Food in the World System
  • Toward a Nexus Analysis of a World Problem
  • A Discourse-Centered Approach to Language and Culture
  • Linguistics as Metaphor
  • Analyzing the Discursive Ontology of the Object of Linguistic Inquiry
  • The Writing of Research Article Introductions
  • The Relativity of Linguistic Strategies
  • Rethinking Power and Solidarity in Gender and Dominance
  • Talk and Institution
  • A Reconsideration of the 'Asymmetry' of Doctor-Patient Interaction
  • Principal, Plausibility and the Historic Present
  • The Construction of Conflicting Accounts in Public Participation TV
  • The Clause as a Locus of Grammar and Interaction
  • The O J Simpson Case as an Exercise in Narrative Analysis
  • The Identity Work of Questioning in Intellectual Discussion
  • Discourse and the Denial of Racism
  • Strategic Maneuvering
  • Maintaining a Delicate Balance
  • The Representation of Social Actor
  • Predicaments of Criticism
  • Positioning and Interpretative Repertoires
  • Conversation Analysis and Post-Structuralism in Dialogue
  • Daily Political Communication and Argumentation in Direct Democracy
  • Advocates and Opponents of Nuclear Energy
  • Turning the Tables
  • Antisemitic Discourse in Post-War Austria

Recent Product Reviews:

Recommendations