CONTENTS Contributors x Introduction 1 1 Discourse Analysis and Linguistics 11 1 Intonation and Discourse: Current Views from Within 13 ELIZABETH COUPER-KUHLEN 2 Cohesion and Texture 35 J. R. MARTIN 3 Discourse Markers: Language, Meaning, and Context 54 DEBORAH SCHIFFRIN 4 Discourse and Semantics 76 NEAL R. NORRICK 5 Discourse and Relevance Theory 100 DIANE BLAKEMORE 6 Discourse and Information Structure 119 GREGORY WARD AND BETTY J. BIRNER 7 Historical Discourse Analysis 138 LAUREL J. BRINTON 8 Typology and Discourse Analysis 161 JOHN MYHILL 9 Register Variation: A Corpus Approach 175 DOUGLAS BIBER AND SUSAN CONRAD II The Linking of Theory and Practice in Discourse Analysis 197 10 Nine Ways of Looking at Apologies: The Necessity for Interdisciplinary Theory and Method in Discourse Analysis 199 ROBIN TOLMACH LAKOFF 11 Interactional Sociolinguistics: A Personal Perspective 215 JOHN J. GUMFERZ 12 Discourse as an Interactional Achievement III: The Omnirelevance of Action 229 EMANUEL A. SCHEGLOFF 13 Discourse and Interaction 250 MONICA HELLER 14 The Linguistic Structure of Discourse 265 LIVIA POLANYI 15 The Variationist Approach toward Discourse Structural Effects and Socio-interactional Dynamics 282 SYLVIE DUBOIS AND DAVID SANKOFT 16 Computer-assisted Text and Corpus Analysis: Lexical Cohesion and Communicative Competence 304 MICHAEL STUHBS 17 The Transcription of Discourse 321 JANE A. EDWARDS III Discourse: Language, Context, and Interaction 349 A Political, Social, and Institutional Domains 351 18 Critical Discourse Analysis 352 TEUN A. VAN DIJK 19 Discourse and Racism 372 RUTH WODAK AND MARTIN REISIGL 20 Political Discourse 398 JOHN WILSON 21Discourse and Media 416 COLLEEN COTTER 22 Discourse Analysis in the Legal Context 437 ROGER W. SHUY 23 The Discourse of Medical Encounters 453 NANCY AINSWORTH-VAUGHN 24 Language and Medicine 470 SUZANNE FLEISCHMAN 25 Discourse in Educational Settings 503 CAROLYN TEMPLE ADGER 26 Narrative in Institutions 518 CHARLOTTE LINDE B Culture, Community, and Genre 537 27 Discourse and Intercultural Communication 538 RON SCOLLON AND SlJZANNE WONG SCOLLON 28 Discourse and Gender 548 SHARI KENDALL AND DEBORAH TANNEN 29 Discourse and Aging 568 HEIDT E. HAMILTON 30 Child Discourse 590 JENNY COOK-GUMFERZ AND AMY KYRATZIS 31 Computer-mediated Discourse 612 SUSAN C. HERRING 32 Discourse Analysis and Narrative 635 BARBARA JOHNSTONE 33 Discourse and Conflict 650 CHRISTINA KAKAVA IV Discourse across Disciplines 671 34 The Analysis of Discourse Flow 673 WALLACE CHAFE 35 The Discursive Turn in Social Psychology 688 ROM HARRE 36 Discourse Analysis and Language Teaching 707 ELITE OLSHTAIN AND MARIANNE CELCE-MURCIA 37 Discourse Analysis in Communication 725 KAREN TRACY 38 Discourse and Sociology: Sociology and Discourse 750 ALLEN GRIMSHAW 39 Imagination in Discourse 772 HERBERT H. CLARK AND MIJA M. VAN DER WEGE 40 Literary Pragmatics 787 JACOB L. MEY 41 Computational Perspectives on Discourse and Dialog 798 BONNIE LYNN WEBBER Index 817