This may be because, as Goodwin and Duranti Just what is meant by context it has tended to be taken as a ‘given’. Of the various features which make up text and talk, with notable exceptions, there has been relatively less emphasis on defining While, in its relatively short history, discourse analysis has spent a lot of time identifying the structure and functions An understanding of context is thus an essential feature of the analysis. Is concerned with the interpretation of texts and an important part of this analysis is how texts are related to the contexts Is thus, to my knowledge, the first published collection of papers to focus on context from a specifically discourse analytic Linguistics, interactional sociolinguistics or pragmatics, rather than being overtly discourse analytic.

These collections have been written from the perspective of 2anthropological (Auer and Di Luzio 1992 Fetzer 2004 Duranti and Goodwin 1992), but while certainly relevant to discourse analysis, There have been a number of volumes devoted to context in recent decades In juxtaposing theĬhapters in this way, readers are invited to compare and contrast these different contexts and approaches and the application Linguistics, critical discourse analysis, ethnographic discourse analysis, mediated discourse analysis, multimodal discourse analysis and systemic functional linguistics. Their analyses, including (in alphabetical order) conversation analysis, corpus Similarly, the authors represent different approaches and methods in Local, (socio)-cognitive or some combination thereof. Context is construed differently by the various authors it may be historical, social, The studies situate their chosen target situation or domain within With a commitment to the study of language in context. The volume brings together researchers from different approaches, but all More specifically, in individual chapters, with particular discourses (big D discourses) as they are manifested in particular Volume is thus concerned, in general terms, with language in its context of use (little d discourse), but at the same time, Situations and domains in which discourse is produced and, on the other, how analysts construe context in their work.

In using the term ‘context’, I have in mind, on the one hand, different Volume focus on both of these approaches. Term – as systems of knowledge and beliefs, social practices and socially recognizable identities. Of the sentence, and, on the other hand, what Gee calls ‘big D’ discourse(s) – the count usage of the In using the term ‘discourse’, I have in mind, on the one hand, the notion of what Gee (1999) calls ‘littleĭ’ discourse – the non-count usage of the term – as language in the contexts of its use and above the level Hence, schools should be invested not only in identifying vulnerable adolescents but also in providing diverse intervention options, tailored to their needs, and directing them to successful developmental trajectories.Presents a collection of analyses of spoken, written and multimodal discourses in a range of situations and contextual domains. Findings confirm SAD as a highly prevalent mental disorder among adolescents, particularly girls, and additionally, that most of these adolescents did not seek treatment but are willing to receive help if made available. Of the adolescents with SAD, 12.9% were receiving psychological intervention, 12.1% refused intervention, and 92 (65.7%) accepted intervention. Social performance was the most feared social event. Of those, 53.9% accepted to be further assessed for diagnosis, resulting in a point-estimate prevalence of adolescent SAD of 9.4% this is slightly higher than previously found. Of the initial sample ( n = 1495), 26% presented with intense self-reported social fears. This study analyzed the prevalence of social fears and of SAD in Portuguese adolescents. Still, evidence on the prevalence of social fears and SAD in adolescence is scarce.

When these fears are intense, persistent, and debilitating, the individual may suffer from social anxiety disorder (SAD), which has its most frequent onset during adolescence and tends to be chronic. Social fears arise when fearing to be judged in social events.

Text and contexts