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Conversation Analysis

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Deborah Schiffrin
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Discourse analysis is widely recognized as one of the most far-reaching, but also one of the least well defined, areas in linguistic. One reason for this is that discourse itself has has often been defined in two different ways: as a unit of language that is larger than the sentence, and as the use of language. Whereas the former definition focuses attention mostly on the linguistic regularities characterizing texts, the latter definition focuses attention mostly on the social and cultural functions underlying ways of speaking. Despite these two different foci, many who analyze discourse combine the two concerns, analyzing how the linguistic regularities found in ways of speaking are constrained not only by the structures and patterns inherent in the language, but also by the social and cultural meanings which frame the production and interpretation of messages.

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Foundations of Discourse
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Annual Review of Applied Linguistics , Volume 11 , March 1990 , pp. 3 - 16
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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