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.

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.

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

Jürgen 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 Oteíza

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 Simões

Discourse and News Media

Mats Ekström

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-Güler and Helen Spencer-Oatey