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Featuring internationally renowned academics, this volume provides a snapshot of the field of applied linguistics, and illustrates how linguistics is engaging with the idea of 'context'. The book treats discourse as language in the contexts of its use in and above the level of the sentence and as systems of knowledge and beliefs.
In using the term context(s), the book understands this as different situations in which discourse is produced and, on the other, how analysts construe context in their work. The volume is thus concerned with language in its context of use (little d discourse), but at the same time, more specifically, in individual chapters, with particular discourses as they are manifested in particular contexts (big D discourses).
Well known discourse analysts contribute chapters focussing on different contexts with which they are familiar, viz. business, education, ethnicity and race, gender and sexuality, history, intercultural contexts, lingua franca contexts, media, place, politics, race, and the virtual world. It brings together researchers from different approaches, but all with a commitment to the study of language in context. The contributors themselves represent different approaches to discourse analysis: conversation analysis, corpus linguistics, critical discourse analysis, ethnographic discourse analysis, mediated discourse analysis, multimodal discourse analysis, systemic functional linguistics. Readers are invited to compare and contrast these different contexts and approaches.
Contents
Foreword by Professor Li Wei
1. Introduction, John Flowerdew (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
2. Gender and sexuality, Paul Baker (University of Lancaster, UK)
3. Questions and communicative context in television dialogue, Monika Bednarek (University of Sydney, Australia)
4. Discourse and discord in court, Janet Cotterill (University of Cardiff, Wales)
5. Understanding context in international professional discourse: the case of a bridge design meeting, Michael Handford (University of Tokyo, Japan)
6. Ethnicities without guarantees: An empirical approach, Roxie Harris and Ben Rampton (Kings College, London)
7. Business discourse in the globalized economy, Britt-Louise Gunnarsson (University of Uppsala, Sweden)
8. Cognitive models and conceptualisation in the context of political protests, Christopher Hart (University of Northumbria, UK)
9. Health care communication, Rick Iedema (University of Technology, Sydney)
10. Space and place as context, Jackie Jia Lou (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
11. Lingua franca discourse, Anna Mauranen (University of Helsinki, Finland)
12. Curriculum Genres, David Rose & JR Martin (University of Sydney, Australia)
13. Context as multimodal semiosis, Kay L. O'Halloran, Alexey Podlasov, Sabine Tan and Marissa E (National University, Singapore)
14. Turn-allocation and Context, Hansun Zhang Waring (Columbia University, New York)
15. Discourse and Politics, Ruth Wodak (University of Lancaster, UK)
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