
Discourse Analysis
A Resource Book for Students
Rodney H. Jones(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
2nd Edition
Published on 29. October 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
232 pages
978-1-138-66967-3 (ISBN)
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Description
Routledge English Language Introductions cover core areas of language study and are one-stop resources for students.
Assuming no prior knowledge, books in the series offer an accessible overview of the subject, with activities, study questions, sample analyses, commentaries and key readings - all in the same volume. The innovative and flexible 'two dimensional' structure is built around four sections - introduction, development, exploration and extension - which offer self-contained stages for study. Each topic can also be read across these sections, enabling the reader to build gradually on the knowledge gained. Each book in the series has a companion website with extra resources for teachers, lecturers and students.
Discourse Analysis:
* provides a comprehensive overview of the major approaches to and methodological tools used in discourse analysis;
* introduces both traditional perspectives on the analysis of texts and talk as well as more recent approaches that address technologically mediated and multimodal discourse;
* incorporates practical examples using real data;
* includes articles from key authors in the field, including Jan Blommaert, William Labov, Paul Baker, Penelope Brown and Stephen Levinson.
Features of the new edition include: new readings featuring cutting-edge research; updated references; revised and refreshed examples; and a wider range of material from social media that includes Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat.
Written by an experienced teacher and author, this accessible textbook is essential reading for all students of English language and linguistics.
Assuming no prior knowledge, books in the series offer an accessible overview of the subject, with activities, study questions, sample analyses, commentaries and key readings - all in the same volume. The innovative and flexible 'two dimensional' structure is built around four sections - introduction, development, exploration and extension - which offer self-contained stages for study. Each topic can also be read across these sections, enabling the reader to build gradually on the knowledge gained. Each book in the series has a companion website with extra resources for teachers, lecturers and students.
Discourse Analysis:
* provides a comprehensive overview of the major approaches to and methodological tools used in discourse analysis;
* introduces both traditional perspectives on the analysis of texts and talk as well as more recent approaches that address technologically mediated and multimodal discourse;
* incorporates practical examples using real data;
* includes articles from key authors in the field, including Jan Blommaert, William Labov, Paul Baker, Penelope Brown and Stephen Levinson.
Features of the new edition include: new readings featuring cutting-edge research; updated references; revised and refreshed examples; and a wider range of material from social media that includes Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat.
Written by an experienced teacher and author, this accessible textbook is essential reading for all students of English language and linguistics.
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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
Illustrations
31 s/w Abbildungen, 24 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder, 7 s/w Zeichnungen, 11 s/w Tabellen
11 Tables, black and white; 7 Line drawings, black and white; 24 Halftones, black and white; 31 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 174 mm
Weight
468 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-138-66967-3 (9781138669673)
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Person
Rodney H. Jones is Head of the Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics at the University of Reading, UK.
Content
Contents cross-referenced
List of figures and tables
Acknowledgements
A Introduction: Key topics in the study of discourse analysis
1 What is discourse analysis?
2 Texts and texture
3 Texts and their social functions
4 Discourse and ideology
5 Spoken discourse
6 Strategic interaction
7 Context, culture and communication
8 Mediated discourse analysis
9 Multimodal discourse analysis
10 Corpus-assisted discourse analysis
B Development: Approaches to discourse analysis
1 Three ways of looking at discourse
2 Cohesion and coherence
3 All the right moves
4 Constructing reality
5 The texture of talk
6 Negotiating relationships and activities
7 The SPEAKING model
8 Mediation
9 Modes, meaning and action
10 Procedures for corpus-assisted discourse analysis
C Exploration: Analysing discourse
1 Doing discourse analysis: first steps
2 Analysing texture
3 Analysing genres
4 Other people's voices
5 Analysing speech acts
6 Analysing conversational strategies
7 Analysing contexts
8 Doing mediated discourse analysis
9 Analysing multimodality
10 Analysing corpora
D Extension: Readings in discourse analysis
1 The three perspectives revisited (Zellig Harris; Henry G. Widdowson; James Paul Gee)
2 Two perspectives on texture (Michael A.K. Halliday and Ruqaiya Hasan; David Rumelhart)
3 Genres, discourse communities and power (John Swales; Vijay K. Bhatia)
4 Ideologies in discourse (Norman Fairclough; James Paul Gee)
5 Two perspectives on conversation (John L. Austin; Emanuel A. Schegloff and Harvey Sacks)
6 Frames in interaction (Deborah Tannen and Cynthia Wallat)
7 The ethnography of communication (Dell Hymes; Muriel Saville-Troike)
8 Discourse and action (Ron Scollon)
9 Two perspectives on multimodality (Gunther Kress and Theo van Leeuwen; Sigrid Norris)
10 Finding 'Discourses' with corpus-assisted analysis (Paul Baker and Tony McEnery)
Further reading
References
Author index
Glossarial index
List of figures and tables
Acknowledgements
A Introduction: Key topics in the study of discourse analysis
1 What is discourse analysis?
2 Texts and texture
3 Texts and their social functions
4 Discourse and ideology
5 Spoken discourse
6 Strategic interaction
7 Context, culture and communication
8 Mediated discourse analysis
9 Multimodal discourse analysis
10 Corpus-assisted discourse analysis
B Development: Approaches to discourse analysis
1 Three ways of looking at discourse
2 Cohesion and coherence
3 All the right moves
4 Constructing reality
5 The texture of talk
6 Negotiating relationships and activities
7 The SPEAKING model
8 Mediation
9 Modes, meaning and action
10 Procedures for corpus-assisted discourse analysis
C Exploration: Analysing discourse
1 Doing discourse analysis: first steps
2 Analysing texture
3 Analysing genres
4 Other people's voices
5 Analysing speech acts
6 Analysing conversational strategies
7 Analysing contexts
8 Doing mediated discourse analysis
9 Analysing multimodality
10 Analysing corpora
D Extension: Readings in discourse analysis
1 The three perspectives revisited (Zellig Harris; Henry G. Widdowson; James Paul Gee)
2 Two perspectives on texture (Michael A.K. Halliday and Ruqaiya Hasan; David Rumelhart)
3 Genres, discourse communities and power (John Swales; Vijay K. Bhatia)
4 Ideologies in discourse (Norman Fairclough; James Paul Gee)
5 Two perspectives on conversation (John L. Austin; Emanuel A. Schegloff and Harvey Sacks)
6 Frames in interaction (Deborah Tannen and Cynthia Wallat)
7 The ethnography of communication (Dell Hymes; Muriel Saville-Troike)
8 Discourse and action (Ron Scollon)
9 Two perspectives on multimodality (Gunther Kress and Theo van Leeuwen; Sigrid Norris)
10 Finding 'Discourses' with corpus-assisted analysis (Paul Baker and Tony McEnery)
Further reading
References
Author index
Glossarial index