The Handbook of Discourse Analysis

Index 843
repertoires 512
rhetorical patterns in professional 193
tenor 45
use of same by two different speakers 21
register shifts
acoustic analysis 23–4 Fig. 1.2
across speaker turns 21
cuing special inferences 24
to mark voicing in reported speech 21
to signal parenthesis in speech 21
within speaking turns 21
register variation 176
communicative functions 184, 191
a corpus approach 175–96
cross-linguistic comparison 176, 187–92
in grammatical descriptions 179–83
in lexical descriptions 177–9
multidimensional (MD) approach to 183,
184–7
oral/literate dimensions 187–92, 192–3
production circumstances 191
in specialized domains 192–3
relational proposition 103
relativism, cultural 401, 404–7, 554
relevance
and coherence 105–6, 112–14
judgments in language technology 807
Maxim of (Grice) 208
optimal 103, 104, 105, 107, 108, 112
principle of (Sperber and Wilson) 102–3,
104, 106, 112–14
in terms of contextual effect and
processing effort 105–6
violation of requirement 104
relevance theory
and discourse 100–18
in political discourse 407–9
remembering
institutional 518–35
as a social act 702–3
repair 89, 728
in binary structure 270–1
repetition 638
children’s 600, 651
and computational linguistics 804
in conflict talk 651, 662
in enumeration 290
interpersonal meaning of 86
verbatim 685
reported speech 112, 653
embedding of 273
and thought 269
see also quotation
representation
cultural relativism in 401, 404–7
dominant patterns of 361–2
paralinguistically distinct acoustic 778
in political discourse 400–1
in politics, and textual production 404–7
the politics of 382
spatial 776
universalist or relativist 401
representations
visual and spatial 773–4
see also mental representations
requests 732
in adult–child discourse 593–4, 605
resource-limited inferential search 799–800,
804, 805
responses, collective 655
responsibility
assignment of 734, 757–8
in medical encounters 458
speaker, in apologies 201–2, 203–4
restatement
in coherence relations 102, 103, 110–12
and computational linguistics 804
restricted codes 755
retelling
and cultural expectations 781
individual, as institutional narratives
524–5
retrospective narrative 789
revoicing, children’s lesson contributions
505
rheme, vs. theme 804
rhetoric
Greek political 399
as mind control 357–8
rhetorical analysis 709
rhetorical approach, to discourse 736
rhetorical criticism, compared with discourse
analysis 727
rhetorical devices 285
rhetorical questions, use by women 551
Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) 38, 803
rhetorical theory, Burkean 640
rhetorical writers, classical 727
rhythm
encoding in content-based transcription
335–6
in English 25
interactional sense 26–9
in language teaching 714
right-dislocation 132–3
rites of passage, and old age 569–70