Working with Spoken Discourse provides a comprehensive account of the expanding multidisciplinary field of discourse analysis. It discusses current approaches,

This book brings together a number of empirical studies that use corpora to study discourse patterns in speech and writing. It explores new trends in the area o

A searching analysis of spoken discourse in the workplace, challenging Polyani's theory of Tacit Knowledge.

This collection reviews 20 years of research into Spoken Discourse by the Birmingham group, allowing, for the first time, a developmental perspective. It combin