Openings in Discourse Analysis: How Communication Begins
Openings are the first communicative moves that establish contact, roles, purposes, and expectations. Studying them shows how interaction and texts become socially organized from the start.
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Repair in Discourse Analysis: How Talk Gets Back on Track
Repair is the set of practices through which participants identify and resolve problems in speaking, hearing, or understanding. Studying it shows how interaction is coordinated moment by moment.
Turn-taking in Discourse Analysis
Turn-taking is the organization of speaking rights in interaction. This article explains how turns, pauses, overlap, repair, and institutional roles can be analyzed as social action.
Speech in Discourse Analysis: Meaning, Action, and Interaction
Speech is more than spoken language: it is social action shaped by context, relationships, institutions, and shared assumptions. This article explains how discourse analysts study speech in interaction.
Trends in Discourse Analysis: Methods, Data, and Social Questions
Discourse analysis is developing through new digital data, multimodal communication, participatory research, and renewed attention to power and ethics. These trends expand what researchers can study and how they interpret language as social action.
Forms of Communication in Discourse Analysis
Forms of communication are the channels and modes through which people make meaning together. Discourse analysis examines how these forms organize interaction, identities, institutions, and power.