Abstract
Discourse analysis draws upon different disciplinary insights from linguistics, anthropology, psychology, sociology, communication studies, and education research. Discourse analysts insist on the use of naturally occurring, authentic language data. Discourse research can be divided into two major types of inquiry: why some but not other linguistic forms are used on given occasions; and what are the linguistic resources for accomplishing various social, affective, and cognitive actions and interactions. This chapter considers both emphases. One set of questions that discourse analysts are concerned with has to do with the communicative motivations for the selection of linguistic forms. The chapter introduces two more concepts from Conversation Analysis. One of them is adjacency pair. The other concept is called repair organization. Discourse analysis promotes a view of language which says that language use is not only reflective of other aspects of our lives but is also constitutive of them.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | The Handbook of Linguistics, Second Edition |
| Publisher | wiley |
| Pages | 445-462 |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781119072256 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781405186766 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jan 1 2017 |
Keywords
- adjacency pair
- authentic language data
- cognitive actions
- communication studies
- communicative motivations
- conversation analysis
- discourse analysis
- linguistic resources
- repair organization
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