Discourse in Action

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Abstract One of the most fundamental issues in discourse studies is understanding the relationship between what we say and write and what we do, that is, the relationship betweendiscourseandaction. Nearly all mainstream approaches to discourse analysis begin with the assumption that discourse itselfisa kind of social action. Conversation analysts, for example, see talk as a matter of “paired action,” genre analysts speak of genres as examples of “communicative actions,” interactional sociolinguists focus on how people strategize discursive actions within an ongoing negotiative process with other social actors, and critical discourse analysts remind us that discourse constitutes and is constitutive of what they call “social practice.”

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