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LING 314

Discourse Analysis

3 units

Winter 2026

Readings

  • van Dijk (2011): The study of discourse
    recommended
  • Silverman (2014): Interviews
    recommended
  • Blum-Kulka & Hamo (2011): Discourse pragmatics. In van Dijk (2011, (pp. 143-164)
    recommended
  • Levinson (1983): Speech Acts
    recommended
  • Levinson (1983): Conversational implicature
    recommended
  • Heritage (2005): Conversation analysis and institutional talk
    recommended
  • Sacks, Schegloff & Jefferson (1974): Turn-taking for conversation
    recommended
  • Antaki & Widdicombe (1998): Identity as an achievement and as a tool
    recommended
  • Membership Mon: Stokoe (2012): Moving forward with membership categorization categorization analysis analysis Week 4: Wed: More MCA/Stokoe
    recommended
  • Presentation: Moffatt, L. (2011). Newcomers and old-timers
    recommended
  • Shrikant & Sambaraju (2024): Membership categorization analysis, race, and racism Critical Perspectives
    recommended
  • Feminist & critical Mon: Kitzinger (2000): Doing feminist conversation analysis CA and MCA Wed: More critical MCA/CA
    recommended
  • Stokoe & Smithson (2001): Making gender relevant: Conversation analysis and gender categories in interaction
    recommended
Winter 2025

Readings

  • van Dijk (2011): The study of discourse
    recommended
  • Silverman (2001): Interviews
    recommended
  • Blum-Kulka & Hamo (2011): Discourse pragmatics. In van Dijk (2011, (pp. 143-164)
    recommended
  • Levinson (1983): Speech Acts
    recommended
  • Levinson (1983): Conversational implicature
    recommended
  • Sacks, Schegloff & Jefferson (1974): Turn-taking for conversation
    recommended
  • Ten Have (1999): Doing conversation analysis Ch. 1 (pp. 3-9); Ch. 6
    recommended
  • Antaki & Widdicombe (1998): Identity as an achievement and as a tool
    recommended
  • Membership Mon: Stokoe (2012): Moving forward with membership categorization categorization analysis analysis Week 4: Wed: Baker (2004): Membership categorization and interview accounts
    recommended
  • Shrikant & Sambaraju (2024): Membership categorization analysis, race, and racism
    recommended
  • Feminist & critical Mon: Kitzinger (2000): Doing feminist conversation analysis CA and MCA Wed: Stokoe & Smithson (2001): Making gender relevant: Week 5: Conversation analysis and gender categories in interaction
    recommended
  • Ohara & Saft (2003): Using conversation analysis to track gender ideologies in social interaction
    recommended
  • Stokoe (2003): Mothers, single women and sluts
    recommended
  • Talmy (2009, Ch. 8, pp. 181-213): Resisting ESL (Critical) Discursive Mon: Davies & Harré (1990): Positioning: The discursive production of psychology selves
    recommended
  • Week 6: Ethnography of Wed: Saville-Troike (2004): Introduction (pp. 1-8)
    recommended
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