Perspectives on discourse analysis -- Discourse: meaning and context: Linguistics and poetics -- How to do things with words -- Logic and conversation -- Interpretive procedures -- Sociocultural knowledge in conversational inference -- Talk and social structure -- The problem of speech genres -- Methods and resources for analysing discourse: Power/knowledge: the politics of social science -- Jefferson's transcript notation -- Transcription as theory -- Linguistic and intertextual analysis within discourse analysis -- Sequence and structure: The transformation of experience in narrative -- News stories as narratives -- Everyone has to lie -- Opening up closings -- Oh as a marker of information management -- Negotiating social relationships: On phatic communion -- On face-work: an analysis of ritual elements in social interaction -- Politeness: some universals in language usage -- Women, men and politeness: agreeable and disagreeable responses -- Interactive frames and knowledge schemas in interaction: examples from a medial examination/interview -- The negotiation of context in face-to-face interaciton -- Representation and interaction: designing the position of the viewer -- Identity and subjectivity: Modernity and self-identity -- Narrative embodiments -- Performing gender identity -- New York jewish conversational style -- Practices of color classification in professional discourse -- Power, ideology and control: Language and symbolic power -- The incitement to discourse -- Discourse and the denial of racism -- Oracular reasoning in a psychiatric exam -- Power in discourse: the case of arguments on a British talk radio show

1. Discourse Analysis