Table Of ContentDiscourse Analysis beyond
the Speech Event
Discourse Analysis beyond the Speech Event introduces a new approach to discourse
analysis. In this innovative work, Wortham and Reyes argue that discourse analysts
should look beyond fixed speech events and consider the development of discourses
over time. Drawing on theories and methods from linguistic anthropology and
related fields, this book is the first to present a systematic methodological approach
to conducting discourse analysis of linked events, allowing researchers to under-
stand not only individual events but also the patterns that emerge across them.
Discourse Analysis beyond the Speech Event
● provides a method for detailed examination of speech, writing and other
communication
● introduces students and researchers to the discourse analytic tools and
techniques required to analyze the relationships between discourse events
● offers explicit guidelines that direct the reader through different stages of
discourse analytic research, including worked examples from conversation,
magazines and social media
● incorporates sample analyses from ethnographic, archival and new media data.
This book is essential reading for advanced students and researchers working in
the area of discourse analysis.
Stanton Wortham is Judy and Howard Berkowitz Professor at the University
of Pennsylvania. He has written on classroom discourse and the linguistic
anthropology of education, interactional positioning in media discourse and
autobiographical narrative, and Mexican immigrant communities in the New
Latino Diaspora.
Angela Reyes is Associate Professor of English (Linguistics) at Hunter College
and Doctoral Faculty in Anthropology at The Graduate Center, CUNY. She
has written on language and racialization, Asian American youth, and ideologies
of mixed race/language in the Philippines.
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Discourse Analysis beyond
the Speech Event
Stanton Wortham and
Angela Reyes
First published 2015
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Contents
List of figures viii
List of tables x
Acknowledgments xii
1 Discourse analysis across events 1
2 Central tools and techniques 40
3 Discourse analysis of ethnographic data 72
4 Discourse analysis of archival data 110
5 Discourse analysis of new media data 143
6 Conclusions 171
Appendix A: Transcription conventions 183
Appendix B: Abbreviations of names in Wortham transcripts 184
References 185
Index 189
Figures
1.1 The example of Tyisha and her cat 4
1.2 The outcome of the example 9
1.3 The example of “Tyisha the courageous liar” 26
1.4 The outcome of the example 29
1.5 Parallelism across speech events 32
1.6 The pathway across three events 34
1.7 The final examples 35
2.1 Narrated events in the central example 46
2.2 Narrated events in the Columbine example 68
3.1 The example of “Maurice the beast” 75
3.2 The example of the Sirens 84
3.3 Maurice caught in the middle 88
3.4 Parallelism across narrated and narrating events 92
3.5 “Samsung” as potential nickname for Samuel Jung 100
3.6 Potential nicknames for Samuel Jung and Sam Park 102
4.1 Geisha speech 112
4.2 Strange speech 116
4.3 Advertisement for Pa¯ru Neriko¯yu (Pearl Paste Perfumed
Hair Oil), by Hirao Sanpei Sho¯ten (Hirao Sanpei Company),
Jogaku sekai, 1912, 12(15), unpaginated. © Hakubunkan
Shinsha Publishers, Ltd. 120
4.4 Advertisement 122
4.5 Untitled image of a moga, Fujin sekai, 1931, 26(5), unpaginated.
© Jitsugyo¯ no Nihon Sha, Ltd. 123
4.6 Advertisement for Bikutoria Gekkeitai (Victoria Menstrual
Garment), by Yamato Gomu Seisakusho (Yamato Rubber
Manufacturing Company), Fujin sekai, 1925, 20(1): 333.
© Jitsugyo¯ no Nihon Sha, Ltd. 124
4.7 Haymaker 127
4.8 Paddy Blake 131
4.9 Young gentleman 133
4.10 Skanger youngwan 138
5.1 Super-competitive 148
Figures ix
5.2 “Acting black” 154
5.3 Lazy Sunday and Friday! 159
5.4 Storylines in Lazy Sunday and Friday! 162
5.5 Lazy Sunday storyline 163
5.6 Friday! storyline 163
5.7 Story enhancements in Lazy Sunday and Friday! 165
