Discourse Analysis beyond the Speech Event introduces a new approach to discourse analysis. In this innovative work, Wortham and Reyes argue that discourse analysts should look beyond fixed speech events and consider the development of discourses over time.

Stanton Wortham is Charles F. Donovan, S.J., Dean of the Boston College Lynch School of Education and Human Development. He has written on classroom discourse and the linguistic anthropology of education, interactional positioning in media discourse and autobiographical narrative, and Mexican immigrant communities in the U.S.

Angela Reyes is Professor of English at Hunter College and Doctoral Faculty in Anthropology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She has written on language and racialization, Asian American youth, and ideologies of mixed race and mixed language in the Philippines.

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Acknowledgments

1 Discourse analysis across events

2 Central tools and techniques

3 Discourse analysis of ethnographic data

4 Discourse analysis of archival data

5 Discourse analysis of new media data

6 Discourse analysis of contemporary nationalist new media

7 Conclusions

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