2nd Edition

Discourse Analysis Beyond the Speech Event

By Stanton Wortham, Angela Reyes Copyright 2021
250 Pages 53 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

250 Pages 53 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

In its first edition, winner of the 2016 Edward Sapir Book Prize from the Society for Linguistic Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association Discourse Analysis Beyond the Speech Event introduces a new approach to discourse analysis. In this innovative work, Wortham and Reyes argue that discourse analysts should look beyond fixed speech events and consider the development of... Read more

Table of contents

List of illustrations

Acknowledgments

1 Discourse analysis across events

2 Central tools and techniques

3 Discourse analysis of ethnographic data

4 Discourse analysis of archival data

5 Discourse analysis of new media data

6 Discourse analysis of contemporary nationalist new media

7 Conclusions

Transcription conventions

Abbreviations of names

References

Index

Biography

Stanton Wortham is Charles F. Donovan, S.J., Dean of the Boston College Lynch School of Education and Human Development. He has written on classroom discourse and the linguistic anthropology of education, interactional positioning in media discourse and autobiographical narrative, and Mexican immigrant communities in the U.S.

Angela Reyes is Professor of English at Hunter College and Doctoral Faculty in Anthropology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She has written on language and racialization, Asian American youth, and ideologies of mixed race and mixed language in the Philippines.