Within linguistic anthropology, the anthropological concern with reflexivity and critique emerges most explicitly in debates over discourse analysis. Through critical discussion of the contributions to this two-part special issue, several dominant approaches to discourse – including critical discourse analysis, conversation analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, and natural histories of discourse – are assessed for their ability to yield insights into culture and power. It is suggested that an ethnographically grounded discourse analysis can be critically effective not only within linguistic anthropology but within anthropology more generally.
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Bucholtz, Mary (2000) ‘The Politics of Transcription’, Journal of Pragmatics32(9): 1439–1465.
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Caldas-Coulthard, Carmen Rosa and Malcolm Coulthard (eds) (1996) Texts and Practices: Readings in Critical Discourse Analysis. London: Routledge.
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Goodwin, Marjorie Harness (1999) ‘Constructing Opposition within Girls’ Games’, in Mary Bucholtz, A.C. Liang and Laurel A. Sutton (eds) Reinventing Identities: The Gendered Self in Discourse, pp. 388–409. New York: Oxford University Press.
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Gumperz, John J. (1982a) Discourse Strategies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Kulick, Don (1999) ‘Language and Gender/Sexuality’, Paper presented at the Sixth Language and Culture Online Symposium, <http://www.language-culture.org/colloquia/symposia/kulick-don/>.
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Livia, Anna and Kira Hall (1997) ‘ “It’s a Girl!”: Bringing Performativity Back to Linguistics’, in Anna Livia and Kira Hall (eds) Queerly Phrased: Language, Gender, and Sexuality, pp. 3–18. New York: Oxford University Press.
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Talbot, Mary (1995) ‘A Synthetic Sisterhood: False Friends in a Teenage Magazine’, in Kira Hall and Mary Bucholtz (eds) Gender Articulated: Language and the Socially Constructed Self, pp. 143–165. New York: Routledge.
