Linking Discourse Studies to Professional Practice

Edited by Lubie Grujicic-Alatriste

Publication date:

06 August 2015

Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Dimensions:

234x156mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9781783094073

This book examines how discourse analysts could best disseminate their research findings in real world settings. Each chapter presents a study of spoken or written discourse with authors putting forward a plan for how to engage professional practice in their work, using this volume’s Framework for Application. Techniques used include Conversation Analysis in combination with other methods, Genre Analysis in combination with other methods, and Critical Discourse Analysis. Contributions are loosely grouped by setting and include the following: workplace and business settings; education settings; private and public settings; and government and media settings. The volume aims to link the end of research and the onset of praxis by helping analysts to move forward with ideas for dissemination, collaboration and even intervention. The book will be of interest to all researchers conducting discourse analysis in professional settings.

List of Contributors
Lubie G. Alatriste: Preface
Martin Bygate: Foreword

1. Lubie Grujicic-Alatriste: Framework for Application of Research Findings: An Introduction

Workplace and Business Settings

2. Spencer Hazel: Institutional Identity Negotiations in Multilingual Workplace Settings

3. Joowon Suh: English as Lingua Franca in Multilingual Business Negotiations: Managing Miscommunication using Other-Initiated Repairs

4. Santoi Wagner: Asymmetrical Aspects of Knowledge in Mediation Talk

5. Evelyne Pochon-Berger, Simona Pekarek Doehler and Clelia König: Family Conversational Storytelling at the Margins of the Workplace: The case of Au-pair Girls

6. Pekka Pälli and Esa Lehtinen: Practical Genre Knowledge as Professional Competence: The Case of Managerial Meetings

Educational Settings

7. Lubie Grujicic-Alatriste: The Centrality of Communicative Purpose in Student Written Discourse

8. Gabrielle Kahn: Narrative Discourse in the Second-Language Classroom

9. Elena Davitti: Interpreter-mediated Parent-Teacher Talk

Private and Public Settings

10. Rebekah Johnson: Negotiating Adult Child Identity in Family Discourse

11. Leslie Cochrane: Positioning Selves with Physical Disabilities in Narrative

Government and Media Settings

12. Kerrie R. H. Farkas: On the City Council Meetings’ Sidelines: Negotiating Changes in Citizen Involvement

13. Liang Xia and Wei Wang: Reframed News Discourse: The Manipulative Impact of Translation on News Making

14. Roger Frantz: Analyzing Media Discourse on Same-Sex Marriage

Charles Antaki: Afterword

References

Index

Especially in cases in which the starting point of the research involves collaborating with practitioners to identify their perceived issues and needs, pragmatic usefulness often drives the choice of analytic tools, leading to increasingly interdisciplinary approaches. The book’s approach thus encourages readers to think outside their own disciplinary boxes.