Discourse Studies

Teun A. van Dijk is a Visiting Professor atUniversitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. From 1980 to 2006 he held a personalchair as Professor of Discourse Studies at the University of Amsterdam. A worldleading scholar of discourse studies and author of over 250 books and articles,he edits the SAGE journals Disourse &Society, Discourse Studies, and Discourseand Communication.

• Interviewing Persons with a Learning Disability - C AntakiHow Setting Lower Standards May Inflate Well-Being ScoresListeners as Co-Narrators - J B Bavelas, L Coates and T JohnsonDiscourse Studies and the Ideology of ′Liberalism′ - R De BeaugrandeThe Discourse Structure of News Stories - A BellCrossing Genders, Mixing Languages - N BesnierThe Linguistic Construction of Transgenderism in TongaThe Power and Politics of Genre - V BhatiaStyles of Stance in English - D Biber and E FineganLexical and Grammatical Marking of Evidentiality and AffectThe Dialogic Unconscious - M BilligPsychoanalysis, Discursive Psychology and the Nature of RepressionInvestigating Narrative Inequality - J BlommaertAfrican Asylum Seekers′ Stories in BelgiumThe Dynamics of Political Interviews - S Blum-KulkaDialogue and Confrontation in Venezuelan Political Interaction - A BolivarMan in the News - C R Caldas-CoulthardThe Misrepresentation of Women Speaking in News as Narrative DiscourseRole and Position of Scientific Voices Speech in the Media - H Calsamiglia and C L FerreroRelativity and Its Discontents - D CameronLanguage, Gender and PragmaticsThe Analysis of Discourse Flow - W ChafeMissing Links in Mainstream CDA - P ChiltonThe Interpretation of Communicative Contexts - A CicourelExamples from Medical EncountersAnswers and Evasions - S E ClaymanAuthor Identification, Idiolect and Linguistic Uniqueness - M CoulthardBodies, Beaches and Burn-Times - N Coupland and J Coupland′Environmentalism′ and Its Discursive CompetitorsPro-Faced Receipts of Teases - P DrewUniversal and Culture-Specific Properties of Greetings - A DurantiMoaning, Whinging and Laughing - D EdwardsThe Subjective Side of ComplaintsTrial Discourse and Judicial Decision-Making - S EhrlichConstraining the Boundaries of Gendered IdentitiesIs Sybil There? The Structure of Some American English Directives - S Ervin-TrippDiscourse, Social Theory and Social Research - N FaircloughThe Discourse of Welfare ReformThe Discourse of Colonial Withdrawal - J FlowerdewA Case Study in the Creation of Mythic DiscourseResources and Repair - B A Fox, M Hayashi and R JaspersonA Cross-Linguistic Study of Syntax and RepairPragmatic Markers - B FraserCoherence in Text versus Coherence in Mind - T Giv[ac]onAction and Embodiment within Situated Human Interaction - C GoodwinConstructing Inferences during Narrative Text Comprehension - A C Graesser, M Singer and T TrabassoSpace - P GrahamIrrealis Objects in Technology Policy and Their Role in a New Political EconomyMedical Discourse - B-L GunnarssonSociohistorical ConstructionTactical Uses of Stories - M H Harness GoodwinParticipation Frameworks within Girls′ and Boys′ DisputesThe Terms of Agreement - J Heritage and G RaymondIndexing Epistemic Authority and Subordination in Talk-in-InteractionPoliteness, Power and Provocation - J HolmesHow Humour Functions in the WorkplaceStance and Engagement - K HylandA Model of Interaction in Academic DiscourseWhen Talk Isn′t Cheap - J IrvineLanguage and Political EconomyPolitical Discourse - S J[um]agerThe Language of Right and Left in GermanyThe Uses and Representations of Local Languages in Tourist Destinations - A Jaworski et alA View from British TV Holiday ProgrammesNotes on ′Latency′ in Overlap Onset - G JeffersonSociolinguistic Resources, Individual Identities and Public Speech Styles of Texas Women - B JohnstoneThe Role of Knowledge in Discourse Comprehension - W KintschA Construction-Integration ModelHeteronormativity in Action - C KitzingerReproducing the Heterosexual Nuclear Family in After-Hours Medical CallsOral Genres of Humor - H KotthoffAgainst Arbitrariness - G KressThe Social Production of the Sign as a Foundational Issue in Critical Discourse AnalysisNarrative Analysis - William Labov and Joshua WaletzkyOral Versions of Personal ExperienceGender, Discourse and Semiotics - M LazarThe Politics of Parenthood RepresentationsReconstructing Topical Sensitivity - P Linell and M BredmarAspects of Face-Work in Talks between Midwives and Expectant MothersThe Body Literate - A LukeDiscourse and Inscription in Early Literacy TrainingYou Know, It Depends - R K S MacaulayAnalyzing Self-Constituting Discourses - D MaingueneauGrace - J R MartinThe Logogenesis of FreedomDivision and Rejection - Rojo L Mart[ac]inFrom the Personification of the Gulf Conflict to the Demonization of Saddam HusseinThe News Delivery Sequence - D W MaynardBad News and Good News in Conversational InteractionTemporalit[ac]e, S[ac]equentialit[ac]e et Multimodalit[ac]e au Fondement de l′Organisation de l′Interaction - L MondadaLe Pointage comme Pratique de Prise du TourThe Political Function of Narrative in Organizations - D MumbyTalking to Children in Western Samoa - E OchsNominal and Temporal Anaphora - B H ParteeThe Organization of Ideological Diversity in Discourse - S PhilipsModern and Neotraditional Visions of the Tongan StateArgumentation Studies and Discourse Analysis - M PlantinThe French Situation and Global PerspectivesExtreme Case Formulations - A PomerantzA Way of Legitimizing ClaimsDiscursive Social Psychology - J PotterFrom Attitudes to Evaluative PracticesWere You Ever in a Situation Where You Were in Serious Danger of Being Killed? Narrator-Listener Interaction in Labov and Waletzky′s Narratives - U QuasthoffConfirming Allusions - E A SchegloffToward an Empirical Account of ActionNarrative as Self-Portrait - D SchiffrinSociolinguistic Constructions of IdentityThe Discourses of Food in the World System - R ScollonToward a Nexus Analysis of a World ProblemA Discourse-Centered Approach to Language and Culture - J SherzerLinguistics as Metaphor - Shi-XuAnalyzing the Discursive Ontology of the Object of Linguistic InquiryThe Writing of Research Article Introductions - J Swales and H NajjarThe Relativity of Linguistic Strategies - D TannenRethinking Power and Solidarity in Gender and DominanceTalk and Institution - P Ten HaveA Reconsideration of the ′Asymmetry′ of Doctor-Patient InteractionPrincipal, Plausibility and the Historic Present - J ThornborrowThe Construction of Conflicting Accounts in Public Participation TVThe Clause as a Locus of Grammar and Interaction - S A Thompson and E Couper-KuhlenThe O J Simpson Case as an Exercise in Narrative Analysis - R Tolmach LakoffThe Identity Work of Questioning in Intellectual Discussion - K Tracy and J NaughtonDiscourse and the Denial of Racism - T A Van DijkStrategic Maneuvering - F H Van Eemeren and P HoutlosserMaintaining a Delicate BalanceThe Representation of Social Actor - T Van LeeuwenPredicaments of Criticism - J VerschuerenPositioning and Interpretative Repertoires - M WetherellConversation Analysis and Post-Structuralism in DialogueDaily Political Communication and Argumentation in Direct Democracy - U WindischAdvocates and Opponents of Nuclear EnergyTurning the Tables - R WodakAntisemitic Discourse in Post-War Austria