1 Introduction

1.1　What is discourse analysis?

1.1.1　What is discourse?

1.1.2　What is discourse analysis?

1.1.3　A brief historical overview

1.2　Form and function

1.2.1　What is language for?

1.2.2 Macro-functions

1.2.3 Form and function

2　Genre Analysis and Discourse Structure

2.1　Genre analysis and discourse type

2.1.1　What is genre?

2.1.2　What is register?

2.1.3　Various discourse types

2.2　Discourse type recognition

2.3　Conversation as a discourse type

2 4　Discourse type and communicative functions

2.4.1　Type and function

2.4.2　Discourse part

2.5 Genre and discourse patterns

2.5.1　The problem-solution pattern

2.5.2　The general-particular pattern

2.5.3　The hypothetical-real pattern

2.5.4　The matching pattern

3　Speech Act Theory

3.1　Performatives and constatives

3 2　Explicit and implicit performatives

3.3　Illocutionary act

3.4　Classification of speech acts

3.5　Conditions for illocutionary acts

3.5.1　Essential conditions

3.5.2　Propositional content conditions

3.5.3　Preparatory conditions

3.5.4　Sincerity conditions

3.6　Indirect speech act theory

3.6.1　Searle's indirect speech act theory

3.6.2　Conventional indirect speech acts

3.6.3 Non-conventional indirect speech acts

3.7　Speech acts and discourse

4　Conversational Implicature and Conversational Principles

4.1 What is an implicature?

4.2 Conversational implicature and cooperative principle

4.2.1　Conversational implicature

4.2.2　Cooperative principle

4.3 Non-observance of the conversational maxims

4.3.1　Violating a maxim

4.3.2　Opting out of a maxim

4.3.3　Infringing a maxim

4.3.4　Suspending a maxim

4.3.5　Flouting a maxim

4.4　Characteristics of implicature

4.4.1　Cancellability

4.4.2　Non-detachability

4.4.3　Calculability

4.4.4　Non-conventionality

4.5　Politeness principle

4.5.1　Politeness principle

4.5.2　Lakoff's maxims of politeness

4.5.3　Leech's maxims of politeness

4.5.4　Face theory

4.5.5　Politeness in Chinese context

4.6　Relevance Theory

4.6.1　Ostensive-inferential communication

4.6.2　Relevance of an input to an individual

4.6.3　Cognitive principle of relevance

4.6.4　Communicative principle of relevance

4.6.5　Optimal relevance

5　Spoken Discourse and Discourse Analysis

5.1　Conversations in school classrooms

5.1.1　The Sinclair-Coulthard'Birmingham'model

5.1.2 Exchange,move and internal structure

5.1.3 Exchanges and discourse functions

5.1.4 The follow-up move of classroom conversations

5.1.5 Spoken language in the classroom

5.2 Conversations outside the classroom&(

5.3　Transactions and topics

5.3.1　Transactions

5.3.2　Topics

5.4　Narrative:a human universal

5.4.1 Sociolinguistic studies of narrative

5.4.2 Psycholinguistic studies of narrative

5.4.3 Discourse studies of narrative

6 Conversation Analysis

6.1 Turn-taking

6.2 Adjacency pairs

6.3 Insertion sequences and side sequences

6.4 Preference organization

6.5 Pre-sequences

6.6 Concluding remarks

7 Cohesion and Coherence

7.1 What is cohesion?

7.2 Cohesive devices

7.2.1 Reference

7.2.2 Substitution

7.2.3 Ellipsis

7.2.4 Conjunction

7.3 What is coherence?

7.4 Theories of coherence

7.5 Conclusion

8 Discourse Analysis and Vocabulary

8.1 Lexical cohesion

8.1.1 Reiteration

8.1.2 Collocation

8.2 Lexis in conversation

8.3 Vocabulary and the organizing of text

9 Theme and Rheme

9.1 What is theme?

9 2 Types of themes

9.3 Marked theme

9.4 lnformation structure

9.4.1 'Staging'

9.4.2 Given and new

9.5 Text structure

10 Schema

10.1 What is schema?

10.2 Classifications of schema

10.2.1 Frame and script

10.2.2 Content schema and formal schema

10.3 Rhetorical genre analysis

10.4 Implications for discourse comprehension

10.5 Schema theory and literature

10.5.1 Literariness

10.5.2 Schema reinforcing and schema refreshment

10.6 Conclusion

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