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Discourse is language as it occurs, in any form or context, beyond the speech act. It may be written or spoken, monological or dialogical, but there is always a communicative aim or purpose. The present volume provides systematic orientation in the vast field of studying discourse from a pragmatic perspective. It first gives an overview of a range of approaches developed for the analysis of discourse, including, among others, conversation analysis, systemic-functional analysis, genre analysis, critical discourse analysis, corpus-driven approaches and multimodal analysis. The focus is furthermore on functional units in discourse, such as discourse markers, moves, speech act sequences, discourse phases and silence. The final section of the volume examines discourse types and domains, providing a taxonomy of discourse types and focusing on a range of discourse domains, e.g. classroom discourse, medical discourse, legal discourse, electronic discourse. Each article surveys the current state of the art of the respective topic area while also presenting new research findings.

Discourse analysis --- Conversation analysis. --- Discourse markers. --- Pragmatics. --- Pragmatik. --- Pragmatics --- Social aspects. --- Pragmalinguistics --- Discourse connectives --- Discourse particles --- Pragmatic markers --- Pragmatic particles --- Analysis of conversation --- CA (Interpersonal communication) --- Conversational analysis --- General semantics --- Language and languages --- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical --- Semantics (Philosophy) --- Oral communication --- Philosophy --- Discourse analysis - Social aspects --- Conversation analysis --- Discourse markers --- Applied Linguistics, Pragmatics, Discourse Linguistic.