Part One Introduction

1 Discourse Analysis: A Programmatic Introduction

Part Two Three Approaches to Discourse Analysis

2 On Speaking Terms: Inspecting Conversational Data
3 On the Same Wavelength: Analysing Ethnographic Data
4 On a Different Level: Particles, Adverbs and Connectors

Part Three Exchange Structure

5 A linguistic Approach to Discourse: Structures and Well-Formedness
6 Initiations and Responses
7 Analysing Exchange Structure

Part Four Surface Cohesion and Underlying Coherence

8 Beneath the Surface of Discourse: Indirection in Speech Acts
9 On the Surface of Discourse: Prefaces and Alignments
10 Stir until the Plot Thickens: The Propositional Analysis of a Text

Part Five Methodology

11 Collecting Conversational Data: Notes on Sociolinguisitc Methodology

Further Reading
References
Name Index
Subject Index

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