Reviews
"Discourse, as the term appears in the title, and as it is used in the papers collected here. . . . refers to both text and talk, and these not as two separate genres to be compared and contrasted, but rather as overlapping aspects of a single entity. As the object of study, spoken discourse is 'text', much as words spoken in a speech are commonly referred to as the text of the speech. In this sense, 'discourse' and 'text' are synonymous."—from the Introduction
Contributors
Alton L. Becker Fred 'Doc' Bloodgood David Brazil William Bright Malcolm Coulthard Frederick Erickson Steven Feld Charles J. Fillmore Beverly A. Goldfield Georgia M. Green Joseph E. Grimes John J. Gumperz V. Melissa Holland William Labov Robin Tolmach Lakoff Sally McLendon J.L. Morgan Walter J. Ong, SJ Janice C. Redish Emanuel A. Schegloff Bambi B. Schieffelin Ron Scollon Joel Sherzer Roger W. Shuy Catherine E. Snow Teun A. van Dijk
