Discourse in Context: Contemporary Applied Linguistics Volume 3
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Discourse in Context: Contemporary Applied Linguistics Volume 3

  1. 400 pages
  2. English
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Discourse in Context: Contemporary Applied Linguistics Volume 3

About this book

Featuring internationally renowned academics, this volume provides a snapshot of the field of applied linguistics, and illustrates how linguistics is engaging with the idea of 'context'. The book treats discourse as language in the contexts of its use in and above the level of the sentence and as systems of knowledge and beliefs. In using the term context(s), the book understands this as different situations in which discourse is produced and, on the other, how analysts construe context in their work. The volume is thus concerned with language in its context of use (little d discourse), but at the same time, more specifically, in individual chapters, with particular discourses as they are manifested in particular contexts (big D discourses). Well known discourse analysts contribute chapters focussing on different contexts with which they are familiar, viz. business, education, ethnicity and race, gender and sexuality, history, intercultural contexts, lingua franca contexts, media, place, politics, race, and the virtual world. It brings together researchers from different approaches, but all with a commitment to the study of language in context. The contributors themselves represent different approaches to discourse analysis: conversation analysis, corpus linguistics, critical discourse analysis, ethnographic discourse analysis, mediated discourse analysis, multimodal discourse analysis, systemic functional linguistics. Readers are invited to compare and contrast these different contexts and approaches.

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Yes, you can access Discourse in Context: Contemporary Applied Linguistics Volume 3 by John Flowerdew, Li Wei in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Languages & Linguistics & Linguistics. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. List of Contributors
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. 1 Introduction: Discourse in context
  9. 2 Considering context when analysing representations of gender and sexuality: A case study
  10. 3 ‘Who are you and why are you following us?’ Wh-questions and communicative context in television dialogue
  11. 4. Discourse and discord in court: The role of context in the construction of witness examination in British criminal trial talk
  12. 5 Business discourse in the globalized economy: The construction of an attractive workplace culture on the internet
  13. 6 Context in spoken professional discourse: Language and practice in an international bridge design meeting
  14. 7 Ethnicities without guarantees: An empirically situated approach
  15. 8 Constructing contexts through grammar: Cognitive models and conceptualization in British newspaper reports of political protests
  16. 9 Intervening in health care communication using discourse analysis
  17. 10 Locating the power of place in space: A geosemiotic approach to context
  18. 11 Lingua franca discourse in academic contexts: Shaped by complexity
  19. 12 A multimodal approach to discourse, context and culture
  20. 13 Intervening in contexts of schooling
  21. 14 Turn-allocation and context: Broadening participation in the second language classroom
  22. 15 Political discourse analysis – Distinguishing frontstage and backstage contexts. A discourse-historical approach
  23. Index