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* Note: Please do the readings before the class meeting for which they are assigned.
Discourse studies: a multidisciplinary introduction. ed. by Teun A. van Dijk. Sage Pub. 1997.
Recommended Supplementary Textbook: Cameron, Deborah. 2001. Working with spoken discourse. Thousand Oaks: Sage. (ISBN: 0761957731).
These textbooks are available at the Rice Bookstore. One copy of each volume has also been placed on limited two-hour loan at the reserves desk of the Fondren Library.
* Note: Readings are listed in the order in which they are assigned.
Articles not found in the textbook are available online through the Ares course reserve system at Fondren Library. You will need your NetID and password to access them, and you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view or print them. Readings marked as [Van Dijk] are found in the textbooks and are not available online.
[Van Dijk Vol. 1] “The study of discourse” pp. 1-33.
[Van Dijk Vol. 2] “Discourse as interaction in society” pp. 1-37.
Du Bois, John W., Stephan Schuetze-Coburn, Danae Paolino and Susanna Cumming. 1993. “Outline of discourse transcription.” In Jane A. Edwards and Martin D. Lampert, eds. Talking data: transcription and coding methods for language research. 45-89. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
[Van Dijk Vol. 1] Eggins, Suzanne, and J.R. Martin. 1997. “Genres and registers of discourse.” pp. 230-256.
[Van Dijk Vol. 2] Pomerantz, Anita and B.J. Fehr. 1997. “Conversation analysis: an approach to the study of social action as sense making practices.” pp. 64-91.
Good, Jeffrey S. and Wayne A. Beach. 2005. “Opening up gift-openings: Birthday parties as situated activity systems.” Text 25:565-593.
Lee, David A. 1997. “Frame conflicts and competing construals in family argument.” Journal of Pragmatics 27:339-360.
[Van Dijk Vol. 1] Ochs, Elinor. 1997. “Narrative.” pp. 185-207.
Labov, William. 1972. “The transformation of experience in narrative syntax.” In Language in the Inner City, 354-396. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Sacks, Harvey. 1978. “Some technical considerations of a dirty joke.” In Jim Schenkein, ed. Studies in the Organization of Conversational Interaction, 249-270. New York: Academic Press.
Mann, William C. and Sandra A. Thompson. 1987. “Rhetorical Structure Theory: a framework for the analysis of texts.” IPRA Papers in Pragmatics 1:79-105.
[Van Dijk Vol. 2] Drew, Paul and Marja-Leena Sorjonen. 1997. “Institutional Dialogue.” pp. 92-118.
[Van Dijk Vol. 2] Fairclough, Norman and Ruth Wodak. 1997. “Critical Discourse Analysis.” pp. 258-284.
Kitzinger, Celia, and Hannah Frith. 1999. “’Just say no?’: The use of conversation analysis in developing a feminist perspective on sexual refusal.” Discourse and Society 10:293-316.
Curl, Traci S. 2006. “Offers of assistance: constraints on syntactic design.” Journal of Pragmatics 38:1257-1280.
Overstreet, Maryann and George Yule. 2001. “Formulaic disclaimers.” Journal of Pragmatics 33:45-60.
Heritage, John. 2002. “The limits of questioning: negative interrogatives and hostile question content.” Journal of Pragmatics 34:1427-1446.
Tannen, Deborah. 2004. “Talking the Dog: Framing Pets as Interactional Resources in Family Discourse.” Research on Language and Social Interaction 37:399-420.
Shoaps, Robin. 1999. “The many voices of Rush Limbaugh: the use of transposition in constructing a rhetoric of common sense.” Text, 19:399-437.
Romaine, Suzanne and Deborah Lange. 1991. “The use of like as a marker of reported speech and thought: a case of grammaticalization in progress.” In Jenny Cheshire and Peter Trudgill, eds. 1998. The Sociolinguistics Reader, Vol. 2, 240-277. New York: Arnold.
Lenk, Uta. 1998. “Anyway.” Ch. 3 (excerpts) in Marking discourse coherence: functions of discourse markers in spoken English, 53-85 and 99-100. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag.
[Van Dijk Vol. 1] Cumming, Susanna and Tsuyoshi Ono. 1997. “Discourse and grammar.” pp. 112-137.
Thompson, Sandra A. and Anthony Mulac. 1991. “The discourse conditions for the use of the complementizer that in conversational English.” Journal of Pragmatics 15:237-251.
Tao, Hongyin. 2001. “Discovering the usual with corpora: the case of remember.” In Rita Simpson and John Swales, eds., Corpus linguistics in North America: selections from the 1999 symposium, 116-144. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
Chafe, Wallace L. 1987. “Cognitive constraints on information flow.” In Russell S. Tomlin, ed. Coherence and grounding in discourse, 21-51. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Du Bois, John W. 1987. “The discourse basis of ergativity.” Language 63:805-855.