The handbook of discourse analysis / edited by Deborah Tannen, Heidi E. Hamilton and Deborah Schiffrin.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1: Linguistic analysis of discourse -- 1.Discourse and grammar -- 2.Intertextuality in discourse -- 3.Cohesion and texture -- 4.Intonation and discourse -- 5.Voice registers -- 6.Computer-mediated discourse 2.0 -- 7.Discourse analysis and narrative -- 8.Humor and laughter -- 9.Discourse markers: language, meaning and context -- 10.Historical discourse analysis -- 11.Discourse, space and place -- 12.Gesture in discourse -- Part 2: Approaches and methodologies -- 13.Nine ways of looking at apologies: the necessity for interdisciplinary theory and method in discourse analysis -- 14.Interactional sociolinguistics: a personal perspectives -- 14.Interactional sociolinguistics: a personal perspective -- 15.Framing and positioning -- 16.Conservational interaction: the embodiment of human sociality -- 17.Transcribing embodied action -- 18.Constraining and guiding the flow of discourse -- 19.Imagination in narratives -- 20.Oral discourse as a semiotic ecology: the co-construction and mutual influence of speaking, listening and looking -- 21.Multimodality -- 22.Critical discourse analysis -- 23.Computer-assisted methods of analyzing textual and intertextual competence -- 24.Register variation: a corpus approach -- Part 3: The individual, society, and culture -- 25.Voices of the speech community: six people I have learned from -- 26.Language ideologies -- 27.Discourse and racism -- 28.Code-switching, identity and globalization -- 29.Cross-cultural and intercultural communication and discourse analysis -- 30.Discourse and gender -- 31.Queer linguistics as critical discourse analysis -- 32.Child discourse -- 33.Discourse and aging -- 34.Discursive underpinnings of family coordination -- Part 4: Discourse in real-world contexts -- 35.Institutional discourse -- 36.Political discourse -- 37.Discourse and media -- 38.Discourse analysis in the legal context -- 39.Discourse and health communication -- 40.Discourse in educational settings -- 41.Discourse in the workplace -- 42.Discourse and religion.

The Handbook of Discourse Analysis makes significant contributions to current research and serves as a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the central issues in contemporary discourse analysis. It features comprehensive coverage of contemporary discourse analysis, offers an overview of how different disciplines approach the analysis of discourse and provides analysis of a wide range of data, including political speeches, everyday conversation, and literary texts. Includes a varied range of theoretical models, such as relevance theory and systemic-functional linguistics; and methodology, including interpretive, statistical, and formal methodsFeatures comprehensive coverage of contemporary discourse analysis.