Written by a leading researcher in the field, this fascinatingexamination of the relations between grammar, text, and discourseis designed to provoke critical discussion on key issues indiscourse analysis which are not always clearly identified andexamined.
* Written by a leading researcher in the field
* Continues the enquiry into discourse analysis that ZelligHarris initiated 50 years ago, which raised a number of problematicissues that have remained unresolved ever since
* Introduces the notion of pretext as an additional factor in thegeneral interpretative process
* Focuses attention specifically on the work of criticaldiscourse analysis (CDA) in light of the issues discussed