Discourse Analysis Beyond the Speech Event
Discourse analysis across eventsAn exampleSpeech events and their contextsSpeech chains and enregistermentDiscourse analysis across eventsCentral tools and techniquesOur approach to discourse analysisThe central example: Crying “racist” in classroom interactionPhase 1: Mapping narrated eventsPhase 2/Component 1: Selecting indexicalsDeicticsReported speechEvaluative indexicalsIteratively selecting indexicalsPhase 2/Component 2: Construing indexicalsExplicit metapragmatic discourseImplicit metapragmatic discourseVoicingEvaluation and positioningPhase 2/Component 3: Configuring indexicalsEntextualizationAcross eventsEnregistermentA second example: Crying “racist” in classroom interaction againOther examples: Crying “racist” in mass mediaDiscourse analysis of ethnographic dataExample 1: MauriceMaurice the beastThe girls against the boysMaurice in the middleExample 2: Nicknames"Samsung": March 9, 2007, 4:33 pmBackground on the students and the schoolNicknaming in the classNicknames for Samuel lung and Sam ParkTracing nicknames in the classroomEstablishing "Samsung"Nicknames as tools for targeting students"Sam's Club": May 18, 2007, 4:24 pmDiscourse analysis of archival dataExample 1: Japanese women’s languageBackgroundPhase 1: "Schoolgirl speech" from the 1880s to the early 1900sPhase 2: "Women's language" from the early 1900s to the 1930sExample 2: Irish English accentBackgroundEssay on Irish bulls (1802)English as We Speak It in Ireland (1910)Overheard in Dublin (2005 to the present)ConclusionDiscourse analysis of new media dataExample 1: Internet commentaryBackgroundDirect quotationsExample 2: Video storytellingBackgroundStorylines recurring across events"Ironic blackness" across eventsConclusionDiscourse analysis of contemporary nationalist new mediaExample 1: Racialized nationalism in ItalyThe discrete news reportYouTube commentary: Ape terminologyYouTube commentary: "Us" versus "them"Example 2: Right-wing political discourse in the U.S.The "MAGA Kid""Real" and "fake"The MSM backs downConclusionDiscourse analysis of discrete eventsCross-event processesDiscourse analysis across pathways of linked eventsHeterogeneous pathwaysBeyond micro and macro to contingent, heterogeneous networksAppendix A: Transcription conventionsAppendix B: Abbreviations of names in Wortham transcripts
