Approaches to Discourse

Compares six dominant approaches to discourse analysis: speech act theory, pragmatics, ethnomethodology, interactional sociolinguistics, ethnography of communic... » 

Compares six dominant approaches to discourse analysis: speech act theory, pragmatics, ethnomethodology, interactional sociolinguistics, ethnography of communication and variation theory. Each approach is illustrated with practical applications to concrete social and linguistic problems. «