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Language and Power: An Introduction to Institutional Discourse (Advances in Sociolinguistics)
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Language and Power: An Introduction to Institutional Discourse (Advances in Sociolinguistics)Language and Power: An Introduction to Institutional Discourse (Advances in Sociolinguistics)

This title offers an overview of the field of institutional discourse, introducing the key theorists. How language is used in institutions and the language of power are key concerns of both sociolinguistics and social theory. The ways in which individuals talk in institutional settings, is very different to their ordinary conversation, with different interplays of social interaction and relations of power. Institutional discourse also varies from other types of professional interaction.
 
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Tags: discourse, institutional, sociolinguistics, analysis, language, Institutional, interaction, power, Language
Discourse Perspectives on English: Medieval to Modern
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Discourse Perspectives on English: Medieval to ModernCovering nearly one thousand years, this volume explores medieval and modern English texts from fresh perspectives. Within the relatively new field of historical discourse linguistics, the synchronic analysis of large textual units and consideration of text-external features in relation to discourse has so far received little attention. To fill that gap, this volume offers studies of medieval instructional and religious texts and correspondence from the early modern period.
 
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Tags: English, texts, discourse, modern, medieval
An Introduction to Discourse Analysis: Theory and Method (2005)
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An Introduction to Discourse Analysis: Theory and Method (2005)Discourse analysis considers how language, both spoken and written, enacts social and cultural perspectives and identities. In this book, James Paul Gee introduces the field and presents his unique integrated approach to it. Assuming no prior knowledge of linguistics, the author presents both a theory of language-in-use and a method of research.


 
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Tags: Discourse, presents, linguistics, author, knowledge, Discourse, theory, languageinuse, method
Humor in Interaction (Pragmatics and Beyond New Series)
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Humor in Interaction (Pragmatics and Beyond New Series)This is the first edited volume dedicated specifically to humor in interaction. It is a rich collection of essays by an international array of scholars representing various theoretical perspectives, but all concerned with interactional aspects of humor. The contributors are scholars active both in the interdisciplinary area of humor studies and in adjacent disciplines such as linguistic pragmatics, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, psycholinguistics, gender and translation studies.

 
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Tags: humor, scholars, studies, discourse, pragmatics
Discourse and Context: A Sociocognitive Approach
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Discourse and Context: A Sociocognitive Approach How do social situations influence language use, discourse and conversation? This book is the first monograph to present a multidisciplinary theory of context and the way context influences language use and discourse.

 
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Tags: context, discourse, language, Approach, theory