Approaches to Discourse

Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics

by Deborah Schiffrin

This is a guide to the various frameworks, concepts, and methods available for the analysis of discourse within linguistics. It compares six dominant approaches to discourse speech act theory, pragmatics, ethnomethodology, interactional sociolinguistics, ethnography of communication, and variation theory. The author not only considers each approach from several standpoints but she also illustrates them through extensive applications to a variety of concrete social and linguistic problems facing discourse analysts.

Genres: Linguistics

480 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1994

Reviews

[Otter57]

The analyses was comprehensive, but a little tedious.