Working with Spoken Discourse provides a comprehensive account of the expanding multidisciplinary field of discourse analysis. It discusses current approaches, concepts and debates in the field of spoken discourse and provides a grounding in the practical techniques of discourse analysis and how to apply them to real data.

PART ONE: PRELIMINARIES
What Is Discourse and Why Analyze It?
Collecting Data
Practical and Ethical Issues
Transcribing Spoken Data
PART TWO: APPROACHES
Approaches to Discourse Analysis
An Initial Orientation
Situations and Events
The Ethnography of Speaking
Doing Things with Words
Pragmatics
Structure and Sequence
Conversation Analysis
Small Differences, Big Difference
International Sociolinguistics
Hidden Agenda?
Critical Discourse Analysis
PART THREE: APPLICATIONS
Working with Talk in Social Research
Identity, Difference and Power
Locating Social Relations in Talk
Designing Your Own Projects

Deborah Cameron teaches at Oxford University, where she is Professor of Language and Communication. Her main research interests are in sociolinguistics, discourse analysis and the study of gender and sexuality; her previous publications include Working with Spoken Discourse (2001) and Working with Written Discourse (with Ivan Panovic, 2014), Good to Talk? (2000),The Myth of Mars and Venus (2007), and Verbal Hygiene (1995/2012).