Discourse Analysis

Mills, S. (2004). Discourse. London: Routledge. Wooffitt, R. (2005). Conversation Αnalysis and Discourse Analysis: A Comparative and Critical Introduction. London: Sage.

Optional readings (indicative): Week 1 Introduction to Discursive Psychology and Conversation Analysis Heritage, J. (2001 [1984]). Goffman, Garfinkel and Conversation Analysis. In M.Wetherell, S. Taylor and S. Yates (Eds.), Discourse Theory and Practice: A Reader, pp 47-56. London: Sage. Phillips, L. and M. Jorgensen. (2001). Discourse Analysis as Theory and Method. London: Sage. Chapter 1. Wetherell, M. (2001). Themes in discourse research: The case of Diana. In M. Wetherell, S. Taylor and S. Yates (Eds.), Discourse Theory and Practice: A Reader, pp. 14-28. London: Sage. Week 2 Debating Context: The Perspectives of Discursive Psychology and Conversation Analysis Schegloff, E. (1997). Whose text? Whose context? Discourse and Society 8: 165-87. Billig, M. (1999a). Whose terms? Whose ordinariness? Rhetoric and ideology in Conversation Analysis. Discourse and Society 10: 543-58. Schegloff, E. (1999a). ‘Schegloff’s texts’ as ‘Billig’s data’: A critical reply. Discourse and Society 10: 558-72. Billig, M. (1999b) Conversation Analysis and the claims of naivety. Discourse and Society 10: 572-6. Schegloff, E. (1999b) Naivete vs sophistication or discipline vs self-indulgence: A rejoinder to Billig. Discourse and Society 10: 577-82. Week 3 Post-structuralism and Discursive Psychology Phillips, L. and M. Jorgensen. (2001). Discourse Analysis as Theory and Method. London: Sage. Chapter 2. Wetherell, M. (1998). Positioning and interpretive repertoires: Conversation analysis and post-structuralism in dialogue. Discourse and Society 9: 387-412. Week 4 Feminism and other Critical Perspectives Kitzinger, C. (2000). Doing Feminist Conversation Analysis. Feminism Psychology 10(2): 163-193. Kitzinger, C. (2005). Speaking as a heterosexual: (How) does sexuality matter for talk-in-interaction. Research on Language and Social Interaction 38(3): 221-265. Speer, S. (2002). Sexist talk: Gender categories, participants’ orientations and irony. Journal of Sociolinguistics 6: 347-377. West, C. and S. Fenstermaker. (2002). Accountability in action: the accomplishment of gender, race and class in a meeting of the University of California Board of Regents. Discourse and Society 13: 537-563. van Dijk, T. A. (1992). Discourse and the denial of racism. Discourse and Society 3: 87-118. Week 5 Performativity: crossing and identity Bauman, R. and Briggs, C. L. 1990. Poetics and performance as critical perspectives on language and social life. Annual Review of Anthropology 19: 59-88. Pennycook, A. (2004). Performativity and language studies. Critical Inquiry in Language Studies 1: 1-19. Rampton, B. 1998. Language crossing and the redefinition of reality. In P. Auer (Ed.) Codeswitching and Conversation, pp. 290-317. London: Routledge. Week 6 Intertextuality and Indexicality Hill, J. (2005). Intertextuality as source and evidence for indirect indexical meanings. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 15: 113-124. Silverstein, M. (2003). Indexical order and the dialectics of sociolinguistic life. Language and Communication 23: 193-229. Week 7 Discourse markers Heritage, J. (2015). Well-prefaced turns in English conversation: A conversation analytic perspective. Journal of Pragmatics 88: 88-104. Schiffrin, D. (1985). Conversational coherence: The role of well. Language 61(3): 640-666. Schiffrin, D. (2001). Discourse markers: Language, meaning and context. In D. Schiffrin, D. Tannen and H. Hamilton (Eds.), The Handbook of Discourse Analysis, pp. 54-75. Malden, Mass: Blackwell. Week 8 Discourse and Cognition Heritage, J. (2005). Cognition in discourse. In H. Te Molder and J. Potter (Eds.), Conversation and Cognition, pp. 184-202. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. van Dijk, T. A. (2010). Discourse and Context: A Sociocognitive Approach. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Chapter 3.