Concrete "how to" discourse analysis references

[Scott F. Kiesling]

Hi Jeff-

I would suggest Deborah Cameron's "Working with Spoken Discourse" and
Barbara Johnstone's Discourse Analysis book and qualitative methods
book. I use the first two in my courses.

I'm interested in your experience because I've had colleagues and
students who have had similar problems explaining the methods when it
it comes to health care research.

SFK

On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 11:10:53AM -0700, Jeff Solomon wrote:
> From: Jeff Solomon <jeffreysolomon at verizon.net>
> Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:10:53 -0700
> To: LINGANTH at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG
> Subject: [LINGANTH] Concrete "how to" discourse analysis references

> Hello Everyone,

> I'm new to this list, so my apologies if this topic has been addressed before. Part of my work entails writing government grant proposals for health care research projects. Reviewers of proposals often have an at-best sketchy understanding of qualitative methods, let alone discourse analytic ones. I'd like to cite some sources in my proposals that are "how to" approaches to doing discourse analysis in very concrete terms. And I prefer to shy away from critical discourse analysis, because I think such a focus will not be palatable to proposal reviewers. Even though I was trained in linguistic anthropology, the works I know best are rather dense, and the methods tend to be implied or assumed in the articles/monographs. Does anyone have any suggestions for works that are much more straightfoward and comprehensible?

> Thanks in advance for your ideas.

> Jeff Solomon, PhD
> Research Health Scientist
> Center for Health Quality, Outcomes & Economic Research
> ENRM VA Hospital
> Bedford, MA 01730

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