Books, articles and chapters used in LSI Courses

This list represents a wide range of texts that can be used in undergraduate and graduate courses. It will always be a work in progress informed by individuals who teach LSI courses regularly and have reached out to offer their perspectives on texts they use. If there is a book, article or chapter you use regularly that you don’t see here, please send the citation to us at lsiresources@gmail.com. Feel free to reach out to Leah Wingard to dialog about any of these resources (wingard@sfsu.edu).

  • Alim, H. S., Smitherman, G., & Dyson, M. E. (2012). Articulate while Black: Barack Obama, language, and race in the US. Oxford University Press.
  • Antaki, C. (2011). Applied conversation analysis: Intervention and change in institutional talk . Basingstoke ; New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Antaki, C., Billig, M., Edwards, D., & Potter, J. (2003). Discourse analysis means doing analysis: A critique of six analytic shortcomings. Discourse Analysis Online: (n1) 1-24.
  • Bailey, B. (1997). Communication of respect in interethnic service encounters. Language in Society, 26(3), 327-356.
  • Basso, K. (1996). Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache. Albuquerque: Univ. New Mexico Press.
  • Benwell, B.M. & Stokoe, E. (2006). Discourse and identity. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
  • Cameron, D. (2000). Good to talk? London, Sage.
  • Cameron, D. (2001). Working with spoken discourse. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
  • Cameron, D. and I. Pavonich (2014). Working with written discourse. London, Sage.
  • Carbaugh, D. (2005). Cultures in conversation. New York: Lawrence Erlbaum.
  • Clift, R. (2016). Conversation analysis. Cambridge University Press.
  • Enfield, N. J. (2017). How we talk: The inner workings of conversation. Basic Books.
  • Fägersten, K. B., Richardson, K., Trotta, J., Ann, J., Green, H., & Eitelmann, M. (2016). Watching TV with a Linguist. Syracuse University Press.
  • Freed, A., & Ehrlich, S. (Eds.). (2010). Why do you ask?: The function of questions in institutional discourse. Oxford University Press.
  • Fairclough, N. (2010). Critical discourse analysis. Edinburgh, Pearson Education Limited.
  • Gee, J. P. (2011). How to do discourse analysis: A tool kit. New York, Routledge.
  • Gee, J. & Handford, M. (2012). The Routledge handbook of discourse analysis. London ; New York: Routledge.
  • Hepburn, A., & Bolden, G. (2017). Transcribing for social research. London ; Thousand Oaks, California : SAGE Publications
  • Heritage, J. & Clayman, S. (2010). Talk in Action: Interactions, Identities, and Institutions. Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell.
  • Johnstone, B. (2018). Discourse analysis, Malden, MA, Blackwell.
  • Johnstone, B., & Eisenhart, C. (Eds.). (2008). Rhetoric in detail: Discourse analyses of rhetorical talk and text (Vol. 31). John Benjamins Publishing.
  • Jones, R. H. (2012). Discourse analysis: A resource book for students. New York, NY.
  • Koester, A. (2006). Investigating workplace discourse. Routledge.
  • Leeds-Hurwitz, W. (1989). Communication in Everyday Life: A social Interpretation. Norwood, NJ: Albex.
  • Lester, J. N., & O’Reilly, M. (2018). Applied conversation analysis: Social interaction in institutional settings. SAGE Publications.
  • McKinley, A. & C. McVittie (2011). Identities in context: Individuals and discourse in action. Chichester, UK, Wiley-Blackwell.
  • McIlvenny, P. (2002). Talking gender and sexuality. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
  • Mendoza-Denton, N. (2008). Homegirls: Language and cultural practice among Latina youth gangs. Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell.
  • Napoli, D.J. & Lee-Schoenfeld, V. (2010). Language matters: A guide to everyday questions about language. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Philipsen, G. (1992). Speaking culturally: Explorations in social communication. Albany: State University of New York Press.
  • Potter, J. & A. Hepburn (2012). Eight challenges for interview research. Handbook of Interview Research. J. F. Gubrium and J. A. Holstein. London, Sage: p. 555-570.
  • Rapley, T. (2007). Doing conversation, discourse and document analysis. London; Thousand Oaks, CA; New Delhi; Singapore: Sage.
  • Sidnell, Jack. (2010). Conversation Analysis: An Introduction. Wiley-Blackwell.
  • Sidnell, J., & Stivers, T. (Eds.). (2012). The handbook of conversation analysis. John Wiley & Sons.
  • Speer, S., & Stokoe, E. (2011). Conversation and gender. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York: Cambridge University Press.
  • Stokoe, E. (2018). Talk: The Science of Conversation. Hachette, UK.
  • Strauss, S., & Feiz, P. (2013). Discourse analysis: Putting our worlds into words. Routledge.
  • Tannen, D. (1984). Conversational Style: Analyzing Talk among Friends. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.
  • Tannen, D., Hamilton, & Schiffrin. (2015). The Handbook of Discourse Analysis. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated.
  • Tolson, A. (2005). Media talk. Edinburgh University Press.
  • Tracy, K., Ilie, C., & Sandel, T. (Eds.). (2015). The International Encyclopedia of Language and Social Interaction, 3 Volume Set. John Wiley & Sons.
  • Tracy, K., & Robles, J. (2013). Everyday talk: Building and reflecting identities. New York : The Guilford Press.
  • Waring, H. Z. (2017). Discourse analysis: The questions discourse analysts ask and how they answer them. Routledge.
  • Winkin, Y. & W. Leeds-Hurwitz (2013). Erving Goffman: A critical introduction to media and communication theory. New York, Peter Lang.
  • Wodak, R. & M. Meyer (2009). Methods of critical discourse analysis. London, Sage.
  • Wooffitt, R. (2005). Conversation analysis and discourse analysis: A comparative and critical introduction. London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif.: SAGE.
  • Wortham, S., & Reyes, A. (2015). Discourse analysis beyond the speech event. Routledge.