Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- PART I Introduction -- 1 Overview of Discourse Analysis -- Introduction -- Aim of the Book -- Origins of Discourse Analysis -- Discourse and Discourse Analysis -- Defining Discourse -- Defining Discourse Analysis -- Questions and Analyses -- How Is Discourse Structured? -- How Are Social Actions Accomplished in Discourse? -- How Are Identities Negotiated in Discourse? -- How Are Ideologies Constructed in Discourse? -- Approaches and Transcriptions -- Applications of Discourse Analysis -- Overview of the Book -- Key Points -- References -- PART II Discourse and Structure -- 2 Classics in Discourse and Structure -- Introduction -- Structure of Talk -- Narrative (Labov) -- Conversation (Sacks, Schegloff & Jefferson) -- Classroom Interaction (Sinclair & Coulthard -- Lemke) -- Structure of Text -- Macrostructure (van Dijk) -- Rhetorical Structure Theory (Mann & Thompson) -- Cohesive Devices (Halliday & Hasan) -- Structure of Nonverbal Conduct -- Gaze (Kendon) -- Gesture (McNeal) -- Body Movement (Goodwin) -- Key Points -- References -- 3 Empirical Endeavors in Discourse and Structure -- Introduction -- Grammar -- Tense Variation to Structure Narratives -- Grammatical Units to Organize Interaction -- Genre -- Doing Genre Analysis -- Variations of Genre -- Gaze and Gesture -- Gaze -- Gesture -- Approaches to Discourse and Structure -- Key Points -- References -- PART III Discourse and Social Action -- 4 Classics in Discourse and Social Action -- Introduction -- Doing Things With Words -- Language Games (Wittgenstein) -- Speech Act Theory (Austin and Searle) -- Signaling Meaning With Implicatures, Cues, and Frames -- Implicature (Grice) -- Contextualization Cue (Gumperz) -- Frame (Bateson, Goffman, and Tannen) -- Key Points