Approaches to discourse analysis /
"Approaches to Discourse Analysis lends insights into micro-linguistic strategies, multimodality, meaning making, relationship and identity negotiation, ideological constructions, cultural practices, and our social worlds. The approaches employed in the eleven chapters are qualitative and quant...
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| Format: | Electronic Conference Proceeding eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, DC :
Georgetown University Press,
2021
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| Series: | Georgetown University round table on languages and linguistics series (2004)
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | "Approaches to Discourse Analysis lends insights into micro-linguistic strategies, multimodality, meaning making, relationship and identity negotiation, ideological constructions, cultural practices, and our social worlds. The approaches employed in the eleven chapters are qualitative and quantitative; involve categorizing tokens and turn-by-turn analysis; use a range of transcription conventions; analyze speech, embodied communication, and online texts and images; differently rely on ethnographic and participants' own interpretive insights; and differ in myriad other subtle and not-so-subtle ways. The chapters analyze discourse in multiple languages, across multiple contexts, and in multiple modes. Collectively, they highlight the diversity and complexity of the field in terms of methods of data collection, topical foci, and analytic procedures, while emphasizing a unified goal of understanding communication as fundamentally connected to human agency and creativity, as co-constructed, and as embedded in and constitutive of our social and cultural worlds. Approaches to Discourse Analysis demonstrates the importance of the diverse perspectives that various approaches to discourse bring to bear on human communication, while also providing readers a window to the branches of our discipline, and how they diverge, intertwine, and blossom"-- |
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| Item Description: | Papers presented at the 2018 meeting of the Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT 2018). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vi, 207 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1647121116 9781647121112 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 31, 2021). |
