This collection reviews 20 years of research into Spoken Discourse by the Birmingham group, allowing, for the first time, a developmental perspective. It combin

This work provides an overview of approaches to written text analysis, including both classic and commissioned papers which share a common linguistic framework.

The focus of this volume is on medical discourse, a domain of language which deserves closer scrutiny by academics as well as practitioners, due to its increasi

Methods of approaching the study of discourse have developed rapidly in the last ten years, influenced by a growing interdisciplinary spirit among linguistics a

Much of everyday work is done through talk between practitioner and client. Conversation Analysis is the close inspection of people's use of language in interac