Conversation Analysis and Discourse Analysis: A Comparative and Critical Introduction

✍ Scribed by Robin Wooffitt

• Publisher: Sage Publications
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 245
• Edition: 1st
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This significant text by Robin Wooffitt is the first to systematically examine the complex relationship between conversation analysis and discourse analysis. It comes at a timely moment: despite the close connection between the two forms of analyses in academic research, no other existing text explains these links methodically, comprehensively and for the benefit of undergraduate and master's students.

Conversation Analysis and Discourse Analysis shows how the methods and findings of conversation and discourse analysis may inform the development of empirical research questions. It will therefore be an invaluable resource for social science students on courses which require them to undertake practical or empirical exercises.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Introduction......Page 12
1Origins and Orientations......Page 16
2 Two Key Studies......Page 36
3 Method and Critique......Page 57
4 Similarities and Differences......Page 82
5 Persuasion and Authority:CA and the Rhetorical Turn in Discourse Studies......Page 103
6 Discursive Psychology......Page 124
7 Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis......Page 148
8 Methodological Disputes:How Should We Analyse Talk?......Page 169
9 Conversation Analysis and Power......Page 197
Appendix - Transcription Symbols......Page 222
References
......Page 224
Index......Page 240

✦ Subjects

conversation analysis;sociolinguistics