The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Analysis
2nd Edition
Published on 29. August 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
652 pages
978-1-032-45863-2 (ISBN)
Description
The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Analysis covers the major approaches to discourse analysis from critical discourse analysis to multimodal discourse analysis and their applications in key educational and institutional settings. The handbook is divided into eight sections: Approaches to Discourse Analysis, Gender, Race and Sexualities, Narrativity and Discourse, Genre and Register, Spoken Discourse, Social Media and Online Discourse, Educational Applications and Institutional Applications.
The chapters are written by a wide range of contributors from around the world, each a leading researcher in their respective field. With a focus on the application of discourse analysis to real-life problems, the contributors introduce the reader to a topic and analyse authentic data. This fully revised second edition includes new sections on Gender, Race and Sexualities, Narrativity and Discourse, Genre and Register, Spoken Discourse, Social Media and Online Discourse and nine new chapters on topics such as digital communication and public policy and political discourse.
This volume is vital reading for all students and researchers of discourse analysis in linguistics, applied linguistics, communication and cultural studies, social psychology and anthropology.
The chapters are written by a wide range of contributors from around the world, each a leading researcher in their respective field. With a focus on the application of discourse analysis to real-life problems, the contributors introduce the reader to a topic and analyse authentic data. This fully revised second edition includes new sections on Gender, Race and Sexualities, Narrativity and Discourse, Genre and Register, Spoken Discourse, Social Media and Online Discourse and nine new chapters on topics such as digital communication and public policy and political discourse.
This volume is vital reading for all students and researchers of discourse analysis in linguistics, applied linguistics, communication and cultural studies, social psychology and anthropology.
Reviews / Votes
A very readable, extensive and up-to-date resource for researchers and students of discourse analysis.Paul Baker, Lancaster University, UK
This edition contains an excellent overview of discourse analysis, defined in a very wide sense. It really gives a newcomer to the discipline a sense of the breadth and variety of the field. The chapters offer students and researchers interested in the analysis of discourse excellent, well-illustrated introductions to the most important theoretical and methodological approaches, written by some of the key figures in the field.
Jane Mulderrig, University of Sheffield, UK
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Series
Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate
Illustrations
4 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder, 34 s/w Zeichnungen, 39 s/w Tabellen, 38 s/w Abbildungen
39 Tables, black and white; 34 Line drawings, black and white; 4 Halftones, black and white; 38 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 170 mm
Thickness: 36 mm
Weight
1143 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-032-45863-2 (9781032458632)
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Persons
Michael Handford is Professor of Applied Linguistics and English Language in the Centre for Language and Communication Research. The Centre is in the School of English, Communication and Philosophy, Cardiff University, UK.
James Paul Gee is Regents' Professor Emeritus at Arizona State University, USA. He has worked in syntactic theory, discourse analysis, literacy studies and digital media and learning. He is the author of Sociolinguistics and Literacies (1990), The Social Mind (1992), An Introduction to Discourse Analysis (1999), What Video Games Have to Teach Us about Learning and Literacy (2003), Situated Language and Learning (2004) and What Is a Human? (2020) among other books.
James Paul Gee is Regents' Professor Emeritus at Arizona State University, USA. He has worked in syntactic theory, discourse analysis, literacy studies and digital media and learning. He is the author of Sociolinguistics and Literacies (1990), The Social Mind (1992), An Introduction to Discourse Analysis (1999), What Video Games Have to Teach Us about Learning and Literacy (2003), Situated Language and Learning (2004) and What Is a Human? (2020) among other books.
Content
Introduction
James Paul Gee and Michael Handford
I Approaches to Discourse Analysis
Critical Discourse Analysis
Norman Fairclough
Evaluation and Discourse Analysis
Theo van Leeuwen and Joshua Han
A Culturalist Approach to Discourse
Shi-xu
Discursive Psychology and Discourse Analysis
Bogdana Huma and Jonathan Potter
Conversation Analysis and Discourse Analysis
Steve E. Clayman and Virginia Teas Gill
Interactional Sociolinguistics and Discourse Analysis
Juergen Jaspers
Discourse-Oriented Ethnography
Graham Smart
Discourse Analysis and Linguistic Anthropology
Justin B. Richland
Corpus-Based Discourse Analysis
Lynne Flowerdew
Multimodal Discourse Analysis
Gunther Kress, with an addendum by Jezz Bezemer
Systemic Functional Linguistics: Exploring Meaning in Language
Mary J. Schleppegrell and Teresa Oteiza
Metaphor and Discourse: A View from Extended Conceptual Metaphor Theory
Zoltan Kovecses
II Gender, Race and Sexualities
Gender and Discourse Analysis
Jennifer Coates and Pia Pichler
Queer Linguistics and Discourse Analysis
William L. Leap
Intersectionality and Discourse Analysis
Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, Autumn A. Griffin, and Stephanie R. Toliver
Discourse, Gender and Professional Communication
Louise Mullany and Victoria Howard
(Anti)Racism and Discourse
Teun A. van Dijk
III Narrativity and Discourse
Narrative Analysis
Joanna Thornborrow
Literary Discourse
Peter K. W. Tan
Narrative, Cognition and Rationality
David R. Olson
IV Genre and Register
Register and Discourse Analysis
Douglas Biber
Genre, Register and Discourse in Systemic Functional Linguistics
David Rose
Genre as Social Action
Charles Bazerman
Critical Genre Analysis of Professional Discourse
Vijay K. Bhatia
V Spoken Discourse
Prosody in Discourse
Winnie Cheng and Phoenix Lam
Lexis in Spoken Discourse
Michael McCarthy and Paula Buttery
Emergent Grammar
Paul J. Hopper
VI Social Media and Online Discourse
Social Media and Discourse Analysis
Rodney H. Jones
(Small) Stories Online: The Intersection of Affordances and Practices
Alexandra Georgakopoulou
Online Identity and Discourse Analysis
Camilla Vasquez and Dacota Liska
VII Educational Applications
Discourse and 'the New Literacy Studies'
James Paul Gee
Ethnography and Classroom Discourse
Amy Bik-May Tsui
Education and Bilingualism
Karen Thompson, Soria Colomer and Kenji Hakuta
English for academic purposes and discourse analysis
Ken Hyland
VIII Institutional Applications
Discourse(s) and Advertising
Elsa Simoes
Discourse and News Media
Mats Ekstroem
Discourse and Health(care)
Gavin Brookes, Kevin Harvey and Svenja Adolphs
Discourses in the language of the law
Edward Finegan
Ethnicity and Humour in the Workplace
Julia deBres and Janet Holmes
Politics as Usual: Investigating Political Discourse in Action
Ruth Wodak
Critical Policy Discourse Analysis
Nicolina Montesano Montessori
Intercultural Discourse: Identity Perspectives on Business Interaction
Stefanie Stadler, Hale Isik-Gueler and Helen Spencer-Oatey
James Paul Gee and Michael Handford
I Approaches to Discourse Analysis
Critical Discourse Analysis
Norman Fairclough
Evaluation and Discourse Analysis
Theo van Leeuwen and Joshua Han
A Culturalist Approach to Discourse
Shi-xu
Discursive Psychology and Discourse Analysis
Bogdana Huma and Jonathan Potter
Conversation Analysis and Discourse Analysis
Steve E. Clayman and Virginia Teas Gill
Interactional Sociolinguistics and Discourse Analysis
Juergen Jaspers
Discourse-Oriented Ethnography
Graham Smart
Discourse Analysis and Linguistic Anthropology
Justin B. Richland
Corpus-Based Discourse Analysis
Lynne Flowerdew
Multimodal Discourse Analysis
Gunther Kress, with an addendum by Jezz Bezemer
Systemic Functional Linguistics: Exploring Meaning in Language
Mary J. Schleppegrell and Teresa Oteiza
Metaphor and Discourse: A View from Extended Conceptual Metaphor Theory
Zoltan Kovecses
II Gender, Race and Sexualities
Gender and Discourse Analysis
Jennifer Coates and Pia Pichler
Queer Linguistics and Discourse Analysis
William L. Leap
Intersectionality and Discourse Analysis
Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, Autumn A. Griffin, and Stephanie R. Toliver
Discourse, Gender and Professional Communication
Louise Mullany and Victoria Howard
(Anti)Racism and Discourse
Teun A. van Dijk
III Narrativity and Discourse
Narrative Analysis
Joanna Thornborrow
Literary Discourse
Peter K. W. Tan
Narrative, Cognition and Rationality
David R. Olson
IV Genre and Register
Register and Discourse Analysis
Douglas Biber
Genre, Register and Discourse in Systemic Functional Linguistics
David Rose
Genre as Social Action
Charles Bazerman
Critical Genre Analysis of Professional Discourse
Vijay K. Bhatia
V Spoken Discourse
Prosody in Discourse
Winnie Cheng and Phoenix Lam
Lexis in Spoken Discourse
Michael McCarthy and Paula Buttery
Emergent Grammar
Paul J. Hopper
VI Social Media and Online Discourse
Social Media and Discourse Analysis
Rodney H. Jones
(Small) Stories Online: The Intersection of Affordances and Practices
Alexandra Georgakopoulou
Online Identity and Discourse Analysis
Camilla Vasquez and Dacota Liska
VII Educational Applications
Discourse and 'the New Literacy Studies'
James Paul Gee
Ethnography and Classroom Discourse
Amy Bik-May Tsui
Education and Bilingualism
Karen Thompson, Soria Colomer and Kenji Hakuta
English for academic purposes and discourse analysis
Ken Hyland
VIII Institutional Applications
Discourse(s) and Advertising
Elsa Simoes
Discourse and News Media
Mats Ekstroem
Discourse and Health(care)
Gavin Brookes, Kevin Harvey and Svenja Adolphs
Discourses in the language of the law
Edward Finegan
Ethnicity and Humour in the Workplace
Julia deBres and Janet Holmes
Politics as Usual: Investigating Political Discourse in Action
Ruth Wodak
Critical Policy Discourse Analysis
Nicolina Montesano Montessori
Intercultural Discourse: Identity Perspectives on Business Interaction
Stefanie Stadler, Hale Isik-Gueler and Helen Spencer-Oatey