The Handbook of Discourse Analysis

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abilities, language and communicative, in
old age 574, 576–7
academic colloquium 733–4
academic discourse 362
academic prose 176, 178, 180, 192–3
academic writing
and decontextualization 719
explicitly argumentative 737
medical 193
accent
and information ordering 120, 125
political loading 410
as a signaling device 222
accent unit 15
acceptability 101, 102
accountability
and ethnomethodology 700
in quantitative research 283, 299
accounts 653, 699–703, 729–30
acoustic analysis, of register shift 23–4
acquisition of discourse, and language
socialization 591–2
Actant Network Theory 761–2
action
consequences for the constitution of
discourse 231–4, 734
construction of discourse and absence of
234–42
and discourse as an interactional
achievement 229–49
activity theory 542
activity type, and interpretation of
communicative intent 222
actor perspective 736–7
additive meaning 56, 66
address, forms of 710
addressivity 619
adjacency pairs 241
in conversation analysis 210–11
definition of questions, in medical
encounters 463
adjective pairs 313
adult–child discourse 592–8
adverbs, as discourse markers 57
adversative relations, conjunctions and 56
affect, propositions 758
affective meaning 79, 91
African American Vernacular English
508–10
African Americans 661
children’s disputes 652, 655
children’s gendered play 551
framing of narratives 640
interactive style 508–10
sounding 660
women’s language 556, 642
age, functional 569–70
ageism 570, 578
agency 260, 476, 697
aging, discourse and 568–89
areas of inquiry 576–80
modes of inquiry 571–6
multidisciplinary perspectives on 570–1,
580
aging, effects on discourse 576–7
agonism 656, 661
in men’s talk 553–4
aircraft communication breakdown 437
allusion, interpersonal meaning of 86
alveolar click 678