Wooffitt, Robin. Conversation Analysis and Discourse Analysis: A Comparative and Critical Introduction.(Book review)

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Wooffitt, Robin. Conversation Analysis and Discourse Analysis: A Comparative and Critical Introduction. London/Thousand Oaks/New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2005. Pp. 248. ISBN 0-7619-7425-3 (hbk.) $78.95; 0-7619-7426-1 (pb.) $39.95.

When one teaches undergraduate students discourse or conversational analysis, there are some who immediately grasp the concepts and methodologies with which the classes deal, and there are others who look at one blankly. While I suppose this may be true of many areas in the study of the media, I have found it particularly noticeable in ...

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