The central concern of this book is the analysis of verbal interaction or discourse. Discourse analysis is a comparatively new discipline still defining its frontiers, problems and methodology and in so doing it draws on a variety of diverse disciplines-anthropology, linguistics, philosophy, psychology and sociology.
The central concern of this book is the analysis of verbal interaction or discourse. Discourse analysis is a comparatively new discipline still defining its frontiers, problems and methodology and in so doing it draws on a variety of diverse disciplines-anthropology, linguistics, philosophy, psychology and sociology.