Discourse and Communication

This volume was inspired by a stimulating conference in Vienna in July 2000. Most of the contributors discuss the problems and issues of Critical Discourse Analysis and Interdisciplinarity here.The questions which are raised in the book lead us from abstract reflections on theory building to aspects of application of empirical results and to political practice.

L. : Routledge, 2003. – 270 p. Analysing Discourse is an accessible introduction to text and discourse analysis for all students and researchers seeking to use and investigate real language data. Students and researchers in the social sciences, as well as language specialists, often discover that they cannot get as much from texts, conversations or research interviews as they would like because they are unsure exactly how to analyze these langu...

Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. 253 p. In an age of managerialism and professionalization, trial by jury might appear costly, inefficient and unprofessional, yet it is also one of the last democratic links between the legal system and ordinary people. Nowhere is that link more evident than in the language of lawyers and judges compelled to communicate their criminal cases or their legal instructions to lay juries. This is the first detailed analysis o...

First published 2004 by Routledge, 11 New Fetter Lane, London. This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2004. Identity People like me Artefacts of culture Identity card Otherization Communication is about not presuming Cultural dealing Power and discourse Representation Cultural refugee Complex images Section A, Introduction, establishes the key terms and concepts and extends readers' techniques analysis through practical a...

John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2007. - 239 p. How and why is silence used interculturally? Approaching the phenomenon of silence from multiple perspectives, this book shows how silence is used, perceived and at times misinterpreted in intercultural communication. Using a model of key aspects of silence in communication linguistic, cognitive and sociopsychological and fundamental levels of social organization individual, situational and socioc...

This book is a comprehensive introduction to pragmatics and discourse. It covers the core areas of the subject - context, co-context, speech acts, conversation structure, the cooperative principle and politeness. The book provides classic reading from the key names in the discipline, from Sperber and Wilson to Fairclough. This is an ideal book for anyone begiining to study pragmatics and discourse. Contents. A. Introduction: concepts in pragmatic...

Стр. 418. Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company. Publication date: June 16, 2010. The volume explores the vast and heterogeneous territory of Political Linguistics, structuring and developing its concepts, themes and methodologies into combined and coherent Analysis of Political Discourse (APD). Dealing with an extensive and representative variety of topics and domains – political rhetoric, mediatized communication, ideology, politics of l...

The five sections of the volume encompass a wide range of topics from a variety of perspectives. The forty-seven chapters connect knowledge about language to decision-making in the real world. The volume as a whole highlights the role of applied linguistics, which is to make insights drawn from language study relevant to such decision-making. The chapters are written by specialists from around the world. Each one provides an overview of the histo...

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan. Pages: 288. 2006-01-20. PDF. 1 MB. Leading researchers in the field of spoken discourse and language teaching offer an empirically informed, issues-based discussion of the present state of research into spoken language. They address the opportunities offered by these emerging insights for language education and, specifically, for TESOL. They ask whether new data and evidence that spoken discourse is a distinctive ge...

Четыре главы книги по лингвистике - 177 стр. на английском языке Chapter 1 - language, dialect, accent, variety and standard English A brief history of the standardisation of English in England A brief history of the standardisation of English in the USA Linguistic variation Social variation etc. Chapter 2 - Pragmatics and Discourse Language, meaning and communication Language in context Language as action Speech Act Theory The co-operative prin...