Description
This is the new edition of Discourse Analysis: An Introduction, an accessible and widely-used introduction to the analysis of discourse. In its 10 chapters the book examines different approaches to discourse, looking at discourse and society, discourse and pragmatics, discourse and genre, discourse and conversation, discourse grammar, corpus-based approaches to discourse and critical discourse analysis.
The book includes the following features:
A full companion website, featuring student and lecturer resources
A new chapter on multimodal discourse analysis
Chapter summaries outlining the key areas covered
Updated examples drawn from film, television, the media and everyday life
Explanations of technical terms in each chapter
Discussion tasks and data analysis projects at the end of each chapter
Student exercises and answer keys for each chapter-Suggestions for further reading