Overview

Three approaches to analysing talk are introduced by internationally recognised experts: conversation analysis, discursive psychology and critical discourse analysis. The remainder of the book is devoted to applications, theory and method. Both authors from Murdoch University WA.

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Author:   A. W. McHoul ,  Mark T.J. Rapley ,  Alex McHoul ,  Mark Rapley
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.550kg
ISBN:  

9780826454638

ISBN 10:   0826454631
Pages:   254
Publication Date:   01 May 2002
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

Part 1 Approaches: applied conversation analysis, Paul ten Have; discursive psychology, Derek Edwards and Jonathan Potter; critical discourse analysis, Norman Fairclough. Part 2 Applications: discovering order in opening sequences in calls to a software helpline, Carolyn Baker et al; understanding who's who in the airline cockpit - pilots' pronominal choices and cockpit roles, Maurice Nevile; reporting a service request, Ann Kelly; applying membership categorization analysis to chat-room talk, Rhyll Vallis; investigating the cast of characters in a cultural world, Kathy Roulston; what is Martin Bryant? - psychiatric and commonsense categories in managing culpability, David McCarthy and Mark Rapley; whose personality it it anyway? the production of personality in a diagnostic interview, John Lobley; managing accountability in set-piece political talk, Martha Augoustinos; Howard's way - naturalizing the new reciprocity between the citizen and the state, Karen Herschell; on saying sorry -repertoires of apology to Australia's stolen generations, Amanda LcCouteur. Part 3 Theory and method: two lines of approach to the question what does the interviewer have in mind? , Angela O'Brien-Malone and Charles Antaki; methodological issues in analyzing talk and text - the case of childhood in and for school, Helena Austin et al; demystifying discourse analysis - theory, method and practice, Keith Tuffin and Christina Howard; is institutional talk a phenomenon? - reflections on ethnomethodology and applied conversation analysis, Stephen Hester and David Francis.

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Alec McHoul is Professor in the School of Communication and Cultural Studies at Murdoch University, Australia. Mark Rapley is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Murdoch University, Australia Alec McHoul is Professor in the School of Communication and Cultural Studies at Murdoch University, Australia. Mark Rapley is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Murdoch University, Australia

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