Discourse Analysis Books

New and Published Books

1. Pointing

   Where Language, Culture, and Cognition Meet

   Edited by Sotaro Kita

   Pointing has captured the interest of scholars from various fields who study communication. However, ideas and findings have been scattered across diverse publications in different disciplines, and opportunities for interdisciplinary exchange have been very limited. The editor's aim is to provide...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Psychology Press
2. Children's Language

   Volume 10: Developing Narrative and Discourse Competence

   Edited by Keith E. Nelson, Ayhan Aksu-Ko‡, Carolyn E. Johnson, Ayhan Aksu-Koc

   These volumes present coherent sets of papers developed along two of the thematic lines that underscored the program of the meeting of the International Association for the Study of Child Language in Istanbul in the summer of 1996. Thoroughly reviewed and updated to reflect the state of child...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Psychology Press
3. Children's Language

   Volume 11: Interactional Contributions To Language Development

   Edited by Keith E. Nelson, Ayhan Aksu-Ko‡, Carolyn E. Johnson, Ayhan Aksu-Koc

   These volumes present coherent sets of papers developed along two of the thematic lines that underscored the program of the meeting of the International Association for the Study of Child Language in Istanbul in the summer of 1996. Thoroughly reviewed and updated to reflect the state of child...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Psychology Press
4. Chicano-Anglo Conversations

   Truth, Honesty, and Politeness

   By Madeleine Youmans

   Series: ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series

   This groundbreaking book--about differences in communication practices between Mexican-American underclass residents in an East Los Angeles housing project and white, middle-class literacy tutors who worked with them--makes an important contribution to research on the sociolinguistics of the...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
5. Spoken Corpus Linguistics

   From Monomodal to Multimodal

   By Svenja Adolphs, Ronald Carter

   Series: Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics

   In this book, Adolphs and Carter explore key approaches to work in spoken corpus linguistics. The book discusses some of the pioneering challenges faced in designing, building and utilising insights from the analysis of spoken corpora, arguing that, even though writing is heavily privileged in...

   Published March 3rd 2013 by Routledge
6. Talking Criminal Justice

   Language and the Just Society

   By Michael Coyle

   Series: Routledge Studies in Crime and Society

   The words we use to talk about justice have an enormous impact on our everyday lives. As the first in-depth, ethnographic study of language, Talking Criminal Justice examines the speech of moral entrepreneurs to illustrate how our justice language encourages social control and punishment. This...

   Published February 17th 2013 by Routledge
7. Information Structure in Spoken Arabic

   Edited by Jonathan Owens, Alaa Elgibali

   Series: Routledge Arabic Linguistics Series

   This book explores speakers’ intentions, and the structural and pragmatic resources they employ, in spoken Arabic – which is different in many essential respects from literary Arabic. Based on new empirical findings from across the Arabic world this book elucidates the many ways in which context...

   Published February 14th 2013 by Routledge
8. Corpus Approaches to Evaluation

   Phraseology and Evaluative Language

   By Susan Hunston

   Series: Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics

   This book applies a set of corpus investigation techniques to the study of evaluation, or stance, or affect, in naturally-occurring discourse. Evaluative language indicates opinions, attitudes, and judgments. It is an important part of activities such as persuading someone that a particular...

   Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
9. Figurative Language Comprehension

   Social and Cultural Influences

   Edited by Herbert L. Colston, Albert N. Katz

   Figurative language, such as verbal irony, metaphor, hyperbole, idioms, and other forms is an increasingly important subfield within the empirical study of language comprehension and use. Figurative Language Comprehension: Social and Cultural Influences is an edited scholarly book that ties...

   Published January 28th 2013 by Routledge
10. Stories and Social Media

    Identities and Interaction

    By Ruth E. Page

    Series: Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics

    This book examines everyday stories of personal experience that are published online in contemporary forms of social media. Taking examples from discussion boards, blogs, social network sites, microblogging sites, wikis, collaborative and participatory storytelling projects, Ruth Page explores how...

    Published January 28th 2013 by Routledge