The Handbook of Discourse Analysis

824 Index
declarative sentences
indexicality of 80–2
intonation 14
performative utterances 84
declaratives 231, 237
declination 334
declination unit 17, 29–30
decoding skills 717
deconstruction, of reified cultures 542–3
decontextualization
and academic writing 719
in school settings 521
deep structure 84
of personal experience narrative (PEN)
637
defamation, criminal cases 443–4
defeasible reasoning 799
definite NPs, intended referents 802
definiteness 172
the familiarity theory of 81
definition, the problem of 462–3
defocusing 359
deictic center 774
deixis 790–1
and point of view 774–6
see also indexicality
dementia 569
democracy 691
density 304
description, referential and attributive uses
of 80
desegregation, laws on 438
diachronic change, discourse-driven 145–6
diachronic studies
of aging and discourse 573
of discourse 138–60
diachronic text linguistics 138
diagnosis, as joint storytelling 461, 481
dialectic process, of reading a novel 788
dialects
identification, in criminal cases 438
ingroup of physicians 473
dialog
children’s development of coherent 599
in the classroom 505–7
computational perspectives on 798–816
cooperative 805–6
question-answering in restricted domains,
and natural language processing 798
in storytelling 640
in writing competence 719
dialog models, in language technology
807–8
dialog strategy 808
diary studies, child language 592
diegesis 778
digressions 268
direct discourse 166, 268
directive focus see conative focus
disagreement
by delay 652
expressions of 652
structural markedness of 652–3
types of 655
disambiguation 102, 112
disclosing painful information 579–80
discord particles 652
discours, and histoire 636
discourse
as communicative behavior 100
compared with single sentences 230
as constitutive of cultural categories
543–5
different theories for differing 754–5
Foucaultian 542–3
functional view of 100
functions divided differently across
languages 64
in literary pragmatics 793
and markers 56–8, 66–7
scope of the concept 696
situational parameters for 175
as social behavior 100
structural effects, and socio-interactional
dynamics 282–303
as a structural unit 100
see also computer-mediated discourse
discourse analysis
action-implicative 734
defining 1–2
diachronically oriented 147–52
polysemic term 538
problems of typological 162–4
professional 234
scope of 138–9
and typology 161–74
see also comprehensive discourse analysis;
computational discourse analysis; critical
discourse analysis; media discourse
analysis
discourse community, language classroom as
711–13
discourse comprehension
implications of coherence and relevance
for 112–14
a theory of 101–2