Gómez González María de los Ángeles, Mackenzie J. Lachlan (eds.) The Construction of Discourse as Verbal Interaction

John Benjamins, 2018. — vi, 304 p.This book includes a selection of ten contributions showcasing new research and in almost all cases developing presentations given to the Fourth Santiago deCompostela International Workshop on Discourse Analysis (IWoDA’16), held in Santiago de Compostela (Galicia, Spain) from 27 to 30 September 2016.
This edited volume showcases new work on discourse analysis by big names in the field and promising early-career researchers. Arising from the latest in the series of IWoDA workshops in Santiago de Compostela, it provides novel insights into both the explicit and the implicit characteristics of discourse as used in verbal interaction. Discourse markers, as their name indicates, are among the explicit signals of coherence, while discourse relations may be either explicit or implicit. Similarly, the discourse used for purposes of evaluation, stance-taking and interpersonal engagement is either overt or covert, as is also true of the expression of emotions and empathy. This, in general terms, is the challenging terrain into which the contributors to this volume have ventured. The book combines theoretical issues with a practical orientation, comparing languages, analysing different registers, studying the openings of Skype conversations, and much more besides; it will prove highly relevant for postgraduate and advanced practitioners of discourse analysis, interaction studies, semantics and pragmatics.