Introducing Discourse Analysis
From Grammar to Society
Published on 2. October 2017
180 pages
978-1-351-58088-5 (ISBN)
Description
Introducing Discourse Analysis: From Grammar to Society is a concise and accessible introduction by bestselling author, James Paul Gee, to the fundamental ideas behind different specific approaches to discourse analysis, or the analysis of language in use. The book stresses how grammar sets up choices for speakers and writers to make, choices which express, not unvarnished truth, but perspectives or viewpoints on reality. In turn, these perspectives are the material from which social interactions, social relations, identity, and politics make and remake society and culture. The book also offers an approach to how discourse analysis can contribute to lessening the ideological divides and echo chambers that so bedevil our world today. Organized in a user-friendly way with short numbered sections and recommended readings, Introducing Discourse Analysis is an essential primer for all students of discourse analysis within linguistics, education, communication studies, and related areas.
Reviews / Votes
"In James Gee's Discourse Analysis, Gee persuasively argues for a grammar-based approach to analysing discourse. This volume is one of the clearest and most accessible introductions to discourse analysis available and is packed with good examples." David Barton, Lancaster University, UK"This book is both clearly written and conceptually enlightening. Rather than treating grammar as a dry theoretical system, Professor Gee sheds an engaging light on its power and its relationship to power, through the way it can enable or constrain people's access to social goods and opportunities." Michael Handford, Cardiff University, UK
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
1 Tables, black and white; 1 Line drawings, black and white; 1 Illustrations, black and white
File size
5,76 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-351-58088-5 (9781351580885)
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Person
James Paul Gee is Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies and Regents' Professor at Arizona State University, USA. He is author of a number of books, including How to do Discourse Analysis, Second Edition (Routledge, 2014), An Introduction to Discourse Analysis, Fourth Edition (Routledge, 2014), and Language and Learning in the Digital Age (Routledge, 2011). He is also the co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Analysis (2011).
Content
Preface
Chapter 1: Preliminaries on Language
Chapter 2: System and Situation
Chapter 3: Clauses and Sentences
Chapter 4: Choice and Discourse Analysis
Chapter 5: Identities and Discourses
Chapter 6: Connections and Discourse Organization
Chapter 7: Narrative
Chapter 8: Tools
Chapter 9: Perspectives, Frameworks, and Conversations
Chapter 1: Preliminaries on Language
Chapter 2: System and Situation
Chapter 3: Clauses and Sentences
Chapter 4: Choice and Discourse Analysis
Chapter 5: Identities and Discourses
Chapter 6: Connections and Discourse Organization
Chapter 7: Narrative
Chapter 8: Tools
Chapter 9: Perspectives, Frameworks, and Conversations
