Preface to the handbook series

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface to the handbook series v
3. Acknowledgements ix
4. Table of contents xi
5. 1. Discourse pragmatics: signposting a vast field 1
6. 2. Conceptualising discourse 35
7. Part I. Approaches to discourse
8. 3. The emergence of discourse analysis as a disciplinary field: philosophical, pedagogic and linguistic approaches 65
9. 4. Conversation analysis 97
10. 5. Systemic-functional approaches to discourse 125
11. 6. Genre analysis 165
12. 7. Critical discourse analysis 189
13. 8. Corpus linguistics and discourse analysis 215
14. 9. Multimodal pragmatics 239
15. Part II: Discourse structures
16. 10. Discourse Markers 271
17. 11. Stance 295
18. 12. Speech act sequences 323
19. 13. Phases in discourse 353
20. 14. Move structure 385
21. 15. Silence 407
22. Part III. Discourse types and domains
23. 16. Taxonomies of discourse types 443
24. 17. Classroom discourse 463
25. 18. Pragmatics and medical discourse 491
26. 19. Legal discourse: processes of making evidence in specialised legal corpora 525
27. 20. Electronic discourse 555
28. 21. Press releases 583
29. About the authors 601
30. Author index 608
31. Subject index 621