Malcolm Coulthard

Advances in written text analysis

This work provides an overview of a wide range of approaches to written text analysis. It includes both classic and specially commissioned papers by distinguished authors, which share a common linguistic framework. The pieces contain a variety of focuses from the patterning of paragraphs, sections or whole texts to the organization of clauses, individual expressions and single words, as well as a variety of text-types. The examples used range from pure science through social science, academic journals, weekly magazines and newspapers, to literary narratives. This collection forms the basis for an course on written text analysis that should be of interest to advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students.

Advances in Spoken Discourse Analysis

This collection reviews 20 years of research into Spoken Discourse by the Birmingham group, allowing, for the first time, a developmental perspective. It combines previously published but unavailable work with new research. Bringing together recent theories of discourse structure, with a new and detailed analytic framework, the book emphasises both historical context and new developments. The articles are comprehensive, ranging from the theoretical to the highly applied. Practical applications include language teaching, literary stylistics and forensic linguistics with examples taken from literature and language classrooms, telephone conversations, disputed witness statements and corpuses of spoken English.

Studies in discourse analysis

Transcription Conventions. 1. Developing a Description of Spoken Discourse 1.1. Originating a Description Malcolm Coulthard and Martin Montgomery 1.2. Developing the Description Malcolm Coulthard 1.3. The Structure of Monologue Malcolm Coulthard and Martin Montgomery 1.4. Intonation David Brazil 2. Sentences in Discourse Kay Richardson 3. Analysing Spoken Discourse Deirdre Burton 4. Exchange Structure Malcolm Coulthard and David Brazil 5. Motivating Analyses of Exchange Structure Michael Stubbs 6. Systemic Linguistics and Discourse Analysis: A Multi-Layered Approach to Exchange Structure Margaret Berry 7. The Place of Intonation in a Discourse Model David Brazil 8. Kinesics in Discourse John Gosling

APPROACHES TO THE ANALYSIS OF CLASSROOM INTERACTION

Abstract Systems for analysing the verbal interaction in the classroom are reviewed and one method is developed to provide a structural and functional analysis of classroom discourse.