WORKING WITH SPOKEN DISCOURSE DEBORAH CAMERON © SAGE Publications London + Thousand Oaks + New Delhi‘@Deborh Camaron 2001 Fen pblahed 208 ‘Apart om aye dealing for he purposes of research oe pete ‘Rady, or etic o reve, pried under he Copy Desig nd Patents A 96 ths publion may be eproducd ‘ord or waitedin afr, ob any means, oi wit he Pron permis in wring of the pblshers orn thecne of ‘epropapieepeeducon,naecordance wa the terms of ences ied by the Copyright Liesing Agcy. Inglis conceingreprodueionoude those eas shouldbe sent the pubes SAG Platine id ‘Boni Steet, SAGE Pbltions ne 2Hos Teer Road ‘Thowand Oaks, California 91320, SAGE Pulstions ada Pt Lad 32, MB Market, Geter adi Now bet 1100 ‘ri ibrar Cataloging in Pbbstion dats Acauloge eat fortis books ‘abe fo the Betas iary TSBN0 761957731 (9b) “brary of Congest ctl eard number 2001131054 “ype Kepta,aranda lodge, Wolvbmpton. Printed in Grant Besa by The Cromel res Lid, roti, ‘keie Contents ‘Acknowledgements Introduction 1 Preliminaries 11 Whatis discourse and why analyse itt 2 Collecting data: practical and ethical considerations 3 Transcribing spoken discourse Tl Approaches 4 Approaches to discourse analysis: an inital oyientation 5. Situations and events: the ethnography of speaking, {6 Doing things with words pragmatics 7 Sequence and structure: Conversation Analysis 8 ‘Small diferences, big dlisference: interactional socolinguistics 9) Hidden agendas? Crit cal discourse analysis, fm Applications 10 Working with spoken discourse in social research 11 Identity, difference and power: locating soca relations in spoken discourse 12. Designing your own projects Bibliography Index 19 aL a 53 a7 106 123 M3 M5 161 180 193 201Acknowledgements “Thie book was written with students in mind, and my greatest debt isto my own. students lam especially indebted to Kim Athertor, Catriona Carson, Michael Higgins, Marko Kukkonen and Stuart May, all members of discourse analysis clas taught at Strathclyde University, who encouraged me to write this text and generously permitted me to use their own projects a8 examples in it. Among the other students ‘whose work Ihave supervised (and some of which I refer to in these pages), {am ‘grateful in particular to Christine Callender, Christine Christie, Deborah Fills, Fiona MeAlinden, Kathy O'Leary, Helen Reid-Thomas, Sylvia Shaw and Shan Wareing. 1 have been fortunate to encounter so much cuiosiy enthusissm and talent among the students to whom Ihave taught discourse analysis and mean it when [say that could ‘ot have written this book without them, ‘The text has benefited at various stages ofits composition from the attentions of several careful readers I thank Meryl Altman, Jane Davies, Don Kulick, Donald Matheson and Kay Richardson for their nteligest and sympathetic criticism. For the rors, obstinacies and patches ofgnorancethatemain, hope they wil forgive me.