In an effort to come to terms with some of the various approaches to discourse, I have put together a grid listing a few of the main characteristics of speech acts, Gricean pragmatics, ethnography of communication, interactional sociolinguistics, and conversation analysis, as I understand them after a cursory reading of Schiffrin.
I would be most grateful for any comments, additions, and corrections.
Mike McDonald
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"Learning is in the relationships between people, in the conditions
that bring people together and organize a point of contact that allows
for particular pieces of information to take on a relevance; without the
points of contact, without the system of relevancies, there is not learning,
and there is little memory. Learning does not belong to individual persons,
but to the various conversations of which they area part."
McDermott (in Smith
2003)
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