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SourceOriginal textsCommentsTextbook: Working with DiscourseChapter1 interpreting social discourse1.1 A framework for discussionIn this book we are concerned with interpreting discourse by analysing it. For us this means treating discourse as more than a sequence of clause; we want to focus on meaning beyond the clause --on resources that lead us from one clause to another as a text unfolds. For us this also means that we treat discourse as more than an incidental manifestation of social activity; we want to focus on the social as it is constructed through texts--on the constitutive role of meanings in social life. In a sense then this book is an invitation to grammarians to reconsider to reconsider meaning in the clause from the perspective of meaning in texts; and it is also an invitation to social theorists to reconsider social activity as meaning we negotiate through texts.本书主要讲述了通过话语分析来进行。我们不应该把话语看做是一系列的句子，关注点应该在句子层面之上即语篇所展示的语源。这也意味着我们不能仅仅把话语看做社会活动的附带显示。话语通过语篇来构造，我们要更加关注话语的社会性。本书是从语篇意义上审议句子意义，也是对社会理论家的一个引导：通过语篇重新审议社会活动。Social discourse rarely consists of just single clauses rather social contaxts develop as sequences of meanings comprising texts. Since each text is produced interactively between speakers, and between writers and(potential) readers, we can use it to interpret the interaction it manifests. And since each interaction is an instance of the speakers’ culture, we can also use the text to interpret aspects of the culture it manifests.语篇产生于说话者交互性的交谈中。展示了说话者，作者以及读者之间的交互性。我们可以用语篇来说明它的交互性。每一个交互性都是说话者所处文化的例证，因此，我们也可以用语篇来展示它本身所显示出的文化的各方面。Clause - text - cultureHelena’s story is one of the texts we use to interpret discourse throughout this book, and we will return to it often, examining its sequences of meanings from different perspectives, to understand just how it manifests the changing culture it is part of.Helena 的故事贯穿于本书之中，用来作为话语分析的例证。从不同的视角监测意义序列，从而理解语篇所显示的变化着的文化。The framework for our discussion is the model of language in social context that has bee