Barbara Johnstone is Professor of Rhetoric and Linguistics at Carnegie Mellon University, USA. She is the author of several books as well as numerous articles and book chapters on topics related to language, place, and the individual.

List of Figures
Preface to Second Edition
Preface to First Edition
1 Introduction
What is Discourse Analysis?
Some Uses of Discourse Analysis
Facets of Discourse Analysis
Data for Discourse Analysis
Transcription: Representing Speech in Writing
"Descriptive" and "Critical" Goals
Locations of Meaning
Discourse as Strategy, Discourse as Adaptation
Language and Languaging
Particularity, Theory, and Method
From Text Outward
Summary
2 Discourse and World
Linguistic Categories, Minds, and Worldviews
Discourse, Culture, and Ideology
Language Ideology
Silence
Summary
3 Intention and Interpretation
Speech Acts and Conversational Implicature
Contextualization Cues and Discourse Marking
Rhetorical Aims, Strategies, and Styles
Verbal Art and Performance
Summary
4 Discourse Structure: Parts and Sequences
Words and Lines
Paragraphs and Episodes
Discourse Schemata and the Structure of Narrative
The Emergent Organization of Conversation
Old and New Information and the Organization of Sentences
Cohesion
Structures and Rules
5 Participants in Discourse: Relationships, Roles, Identities
Power and Community
Indexicality
Stance and Style
Social Roles and Participant Structure
Audience, Politeness, and Accommodation
Social Identity and Identification
Personal Identity: Discourse and the Self
The Linguistic Individual in Discourse
Summary
6 Prior Texts, Prior Discourses
Intertextuality and Interdiscursivity
Repetition in Conversation
Register: Repeated Styles for Repeated Situations
Genre: Recurrent Forms, Recurrent Actions
Frames, Plots, and Coherence
Summary
7 Discourse and Medium
Early Work on "Orality and Literacy"
Literacy and Literacies
Communication and Technology
Planning and Discourse Structure
Fixity, Fluidity, and Coherence
Medium and Interpersonal Relations
Analyzing Multimodal Discourse
Summary

Revised and updated, this third edition of Barbara Johnstone's Discourse Analysis encourages students to think about discourse analysis as an open-ended set of techniques. Exploring a variety of approaches, including critical discourse analysis, conversation analysis, interactional and variationist sociolinguistics, ethnography, corpus linguistics, social semiotics, and other qualitative and quantitative methods, the book balances its comprehensive coverage with extensive practical examples, making it the ideal introductory text for students new to the subject.
This new edition reflects the increased importance within the field of new media discourse, multi-modal discourse and the analysis of large corpora of discourse data. Updated material expands the discussion of stancetaking, whilst new material addresses recontextualization, precontextualization, and language and the body. Pedagogical features have been refreshed, including discussion questions, exercises, and ideas for small research projects, with suggested supplementary readings at the end of each chapter to encourage further discovery.
* Chapters in this book are self-contained, so they can be handled in any order
* Suggested supplementary readings are featured at the end of every chapter
* Book is written specifically for a non-specialist, interdisciplinary audience
* Examples of computer-aided corpus analysis (reflecting the improvements made to theories and tools) supplement every chapter
* Discussion questions and ideas for small research projects are interspersed throughout
The combination of breadth of coverage, practical examples, and student-friendly pedagogical features ensures Discourse Analysis remains the ideal textbook for students taking their first course in linguistic approaches to discourse.