Discourse Analysis

This book presents the essential approaches that you need to know when you start doing discourse analysis for the first time. Over 11 chapters <i> Discourse Analysis: An Introduction</i>outlines the core methodological and theoretical premises tracing their development and discussing the most recent trends. Providing you with an essential discourse analytic toolkit each chapter explores a different approach from a wide variety of global perspectives looking at discourse and society discourse and pragmatics discourse and genre discourse and conversation discourse grammar corpus approaches multimodal discourse and critical discourse analysis. <br/><br/>Now fully revised to take account of recent developments this third edition includes: <br/><br/>- A new chapter on discourse and digital media<br/>- New topics including English as a lingua franca linguistic landscapes and translanguaging <br/>- Updated examples drawn from a variety of global perspectives and contexts ranging from North America to East Asia<br/>- Updated discussion questions throughout<br/><br/>With each chapter supplemented with exercises discussion questions and lists of further reading along with a comprehensive companion website featuring lecture slides extended readings and enhanced bibliographies this is the only book you need for discourse analysis.