The Handbook of Discourse Analysis, VOLUME I; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Preface to the Second Edition; The Handbook of Discourse Analysis, VOLUME II; Contents; Introduction to the First Edition; What Is Discourse Analysis?; Deborah Tannen; Deborah Schiffrin; Heidi E. Hamilton; Purpose of the Handbook; Conclusion; References; I Linguistic Analysis of Discourse; 1 Discourse and Grammar; 0 Introduction; 1 The Basic Sentence; 2 The Word; 2.1 Lexical categories; 2.2 Incorporation; 3 The Clause; 3.1 Arguments; 3.2 Core and oblique; 3.3 Word order in the clause; 4 Beyond the Nuclear Clause5 The Complex Sentence6 Coherence; 7 Interaction; 8 Conclusion; References; 2 Intertextuality in Discourse; 0 Introduction; 1 Philosophical and Definitional Foundations; 2 (Re)Contextualization, Genre, and the Intertextual Gap; 3 Reported Speech and Constructed Dialogue; 4 Intertextuality, Discourse, and Power; 5 Conclusion; References; 3 Cohesion and Texture; 0 Beyond the Clause; 1 Cohesion; 2 Discourse Semantics; 3 Modeling Social Context: Register and Genre; 4 Cohesion, Texture, and Coherence; References; 4 Intonation and Discourse; 0 Introduction; 1 Looking Back; 2 Looking at Now3 New Territories and Frontiers3.1 Beyond the intonation phrase; 3.2 Beyond intonation; 4 Looking Ahead; 5 Transcription Conventions; References; 5 Voice Registers; 0 Introduction; 1 At the Intersection of Two Concepts of Register; 2 Background; 3 Falsetto Voice; 4 Creaky Voice; 5 Whisper Voice; 6 Breathy Voice; 7 Discussion; References; 6 Computer-Mediated Discourse 2.0; 0 Introduction; 1 Classification of Computer-Mediated Discourse; 1.1 Modality; 1.2 Modes, genres, and discourse types; 1.3 Faceted classification; 1.4 Classification of "Discourse 2.0"; 2 Discourse Structure; 3 Meaning4 Interaction Management5 Social Practice; 5.1 Variation and linguistic diversity; 5.2 Interaction and identity; 5.3 Discourse and engagement; 6 Multimodal Computer-Mediated Discourse; 7 Conclusions; References; 7 Discourse Analysis and Narrative; 0 Introduction; 1 Structural Approaches to Narrative; 2 Interactional Approaches to Narrative; 3 Narrative in Sociocultural Practice; 4 The Narrative Turn across Disciplines; 5 Current State of the Field; References; 8 Humor and Laughter; 0 Introduction; 1 The Precursors; 1.1 Jokes as narratives within discourse1.2 Differences between canned and conversational joking2 The Functionalist Phase; 3 Corpus-Based Synthesis; 3.1 Humor styles; 3.2 The Language in the Workplace Project corpus studies; 3.3 Humor support; 3.4 Other corpus-based studies; 3.5 Timing and the prosody of humor; 4 Paradigmatic Shifts in the Study of Humorous Discourse; 4.1 Discourse analysis and cognitivist approaches; 4.2 The multi-functionality of humor; 4.3 The co-construction of humor; 4.4 Finding the boundaries of humor; 4.5 Identification of humor; 4.6 Failed humor; 5 Conclusion; REFERENCES