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Tables of Contents for Discourse Analysis
Chapter/Section Title
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Acknowledgements
ix
Notational Conventions
xi
PART ONE Introduction
Discourse Analysis: A Programmatic Introduction
1
14
Language, action, knowledge and situation
1
2
The impossibility of discourse analysis?
3
3
Discourse analysis and linguistics
6
1
Discourse analysis and sociolinguistics
7
2
Terminology
9
1
Idealization
10
1
The state of the art
11
2
The organization of the book
13
2
PART TWO Three Approaches To Discourse Analysis
On Speaking Terms: Inspecting Conversational Data
15
25
Discourse organization
15
4
Inspecting transcribed data
19
1
Some observations on the data
20
3
Narrative organization
23
5
Interactional roles
28
2
Discourse analysis and interaction
30
1
Narrative structure
31
2
Natural conversation
33
2
Native speaker fluency
35
2
Conclusions
37
1
Data appendix
37
3
On the Same Wavelength: Analysing Ethnographic Data
40
27
Some initial observations
40
1
Data collection
41
1
Problems of perception
42
1
Communicative problems in the classroom
43
1
Sociolinguistics and language variation
44
1
Language functions
45
3
Metacommunicative acts
48
2
Monitoring classroom talk
50
8
Two descriptive rules of language use
58
3
Limitations on the analysis
61
2
The hidden curriculum or medium as message
63
1
Object language and metalanguage
64
3
On a Different Level: Particles, Adverbs and Connectors
67
17
Well
68
2
Adverbs
70
1
Please
71
2
Tests for speech acts
73
4
Pragmatic connectors
77
5
Conclusions
82
2
PART THREE Exchange Structure
A Linguistic Approach to Discourse: Structures and Well-Formedness
84
20
A linguistic approach to discourse
85
2
Predictability and well-formedness
87
1
Phonotactics
88
1
Grammaticality
89
2
Intuitions about discourse sequences
91
1
Predictability
92
2
Predictability and idealization
94
3
Structure controls meaning
97
2
Canonical discourse and idealization
99
2
Analogies
101
1
Conclusions
102
2
Initiations and Responses
104
24
Questions
104
1
Yes-no questions
105
2
X-questions
107
2
An initial definition of exchange
109
1
Yes and no
110
7
Observational studies of yes and no
117
1
A-, B- and AB-events
118
2
Truth and certainty
120
3
Knowledge and beliefs
123
1
Actives and passives
124
3
Conclusions
127
1
Analysing Exchange Structure
128
19
Theory, methodology and data
128
1
Well-formedness in discourse
129
1
Notational conventions
130
1
Research on exchange structure
131
1
Sinclair's work on discourse
132
3
Basic discourse categories
135
6
Analysis of complete interchange
141
1
Tests for ± initial
142
1
Some candidate analysis
143
1
Eliciting informants' intuitions on discourse
144
2
Concluding comments
146
1
PART FOUR Surface Cohesion And Underlying Coherence
Beneath the Surface of Discourse: Indirection in Speech Acts
147
29
Austin: utterances as actions
147
1
Discourse acts and speech acts
148
2
Austin's theory of speech acts
150
3
Identifying speech acts
153
6
Speech acts and social roles
159
2
Problems for hearers and readers
161
3
Finding the answer
164
5
Motivating underlying acts
169
6
Conclusions
175
1
On the Surface of Discourse: Prefaces and Alignments
176
18
The indirection argument
176
2
Limitations on idealized data
178
2
Formulating turns at talk
180
3
Prefaces
183
3
Alignments
186
3
Acknowledge, accept and endorse
189
4
Conclusion
193
1
Stir until the Plot Thickens: The Propositional Analysis of Text
194
24
A method for investigating narrative structure
194
1
Literary competence
195
3
Propositions in stories
198
2
The concepts of plot and summary
200
2
The semantic analysis of plots
202
1
Propositions, entailments and presuppositions
203
1
Existential presuppositions: or how to tell jokes
204
1
Co-reference: one cat or two
205
1
Entailments and implications: or how to tell lies
206
2
Maxims of quantity
208
1
Implicatures
209
1
Summary
210
1
The sociolinguistic analysis of literary language
211
2
Propositional analysis
213
1
Presuppositions
214
4
PART FIVE Methodology
Collecting Conversational Data: Notes on Sociolinguistic Methodology
218
29
The lack of accepted procedures in discourse analysis
219
2
Labov and sociolinguistic methodology
221
1
Practical problems
221
2
How much data?
223
1
Theoretical biases in recording
224
3
Theoretical biases in transcription
227
3
Field notes
230
1
Theoretical sampling
230
4
Triangulation
234
4
The problem of perception
238
5
An illustration
243
3
Conclusions
246
1
Further Reading
247
2
References
249
18
Name Index
267
3
Subject Index
270