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Discourse Analysis presents a comprehensive and accessible introduction to linguistic approaches to discourse. Ideal for students new to the subject, this student-friendly textbook clearly explains a wide range of methods and techniques used to collect and analyze spoken, written, and multimodal language. Easy-to-digest chapters describe critical discourse analysis, conversation analysis, interactional and variationist sociolinguistics, ethnography, corpus linguistics, social semiotics, and other qualitative and quantitative methods.
Throughout the text, students explore the factors underlying the meanings and uses of spoken utterances and written texts, supported by a wealth of real-world examples and numerous exercises that incorporate extensive data from a variety of languages and situations. Using an engaging narrative style, the authors explain the complex relationships between discourse and various aspects of context while illustrating what discourse analysis can reveal about language, individuals, groups, and?society.
Now in its fourth edition, Discourse Analysis features new discussion questions and ideas for research projects, up-to-date supplementary readings, expanded discussions of corpus analysis methods, rhetorical legitimation, social identities, and more.
Providing instructors with the flexibility to re-order chapters to meet the needs of their students, Discourse Analysis, Fourth Edition, is an ideal primary text for undergraduate and graduate courses in language and linguistics, language pedagogy, rhetoric and composition, and linguistic ethnography.