Book Review: Methods of Text and Discourse Analysis

Eglin, P. and Hester, S. (1992) ‘Category, Predicate, Task: The Pragmatics of Practical Action’, Semiotica 88: 243-268.

Francis, D and Hart, C. (1997) ‘Narrative Intelligibility and Membership Categorization in a Television Commercial’, in S. Hester and P. Eglin (eds) Culture in Action: Studies in Membership Categorization Analysis. Washington, DC: International Institute for Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis/University Press of America.

Hester, S. (1992) ‘Recognising References to Deviance in Referral Talk’, in G. Watson and R.M. Sieler (eds) Text in Context: Contributions to Ethnomethodology. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.

Hester, S. and Eglin, P. (1997) Culture in Action: Studies in Membership Categorization Analysis. Washington, DC: International Institute for Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis/University Press of America.

Lepper, G. (2001) Categories in Text and Talk: London, Sage.

Silverman, D. (1998) Harvey Sacks: Social Science and Conversation Analysis. Oxford: Polity Press.

Watson, D.R. (1974) ‘The Language of Race Relations: Making Racial Discriminations’, Journal of Comparative Sociology 2: 89-101.

Watson, D.R. (1976) ‘Some Conceptual Issues in the Social Identification of “Victims” and “Offenders”’, in E.C. Viano (ed.) Victims and Society. Washington, DC: Visage.

Watson, D.R (1978) ‘Categorisation, Authorisation and Blame-Negotiation in Conversation’, Sociology 12(1): 105-113.

Watson, D.R. (1990) ‘Some Features of the Elicitation of Confessions in Murder Interrogations’, in G. Psathas (ed.) Interaction Competence: Studies in Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis, No 1. Washington, DC: International Institute for Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis/University Press of America.